… Herby Vegetable Couscous & Tzatziki
I’m cooking a Greek chicken dish tonight. I’m doing this meal for Gavin’s, my house mate’s, family. We all used to go to the same church when I lived in Nottinghamshire, about ten years ago. It’s nice to catch up with them all.
By and large this is a relatively easy meal to cook. There isn’t loads of cooking. Cooking couscous is not really cooking. Pouring hot water over something does not count as cooking. If it did then having making pot noodle would count as cooking and we can’t have that!
As with most of the chicken dishes, the chicken is bashed flat, with its seasoning before being fried.
You also make a tzatziki for this meal. Cucumber is grated, slated and then the juice is squeezed out of the granted cucumber. There is an unbelievable amount of liquid that comes out of it.
It is much more than half way through the time when, I realise that my chicken is not cooking very quickly. I had had the hob on much lower than it should have been. I turn it up, but I know I will now not hit the fifteen minute mark. It’s a shame because the couscous and tzatziki is finished by a little after fourteen minutes.
Peppers and olives and feta and peas are added to the couscous and it does look pretty.
I wait and wait for the chicken to cook. Finally it is done.
It’s a nice tasty meal. As I cooked for a few more people than the recipe was supposed to cater for I added one more chicken breast and some warmed up pitta breads. I also made an apple and plumb crumble.
Oh by the way my hob has been fixed so I now have all four rings available. This should make cooking much easier. Less juggling of pans. I’m not very good at juggling pans.
Who with: Ian, Gill, Tim, Catharine, Ethan and Gavin
How long: Seventeen minutes and fifty three seconds
