Lunch & dinner

Chicken and chickpea tagine with couscous

  • Lunch & dinner
  • North African
  • 45 min hands-on
  • Halal

Ingredients

One standard portion

  • 85g halal chicken thigh, skinless
  • 65g wholewheat couscous (dry weight)
  • 10g olive oil (2 tsp)
  • 60g cooked chickpeas
  • 60g carrots
  • 40g onion
  • 60g tomatoes

Season as the method describes. Spices, salt, lemon and water aren’t weighed or counted below.

Per portion

Calories
614kcal
Protein
36g
Carbs
75g
Fat
19g

Added up from each ingredient’s typical values per 100g. A standard portion is this meal’s share of a 2,000 kcal day.

Method

  1. Brown the chicken in the oil with ras el hanout, ginger and onion.

  2. Add the carrots, tomato and chickpeas with a little water; cover and simmer for thirty minutes.

  3. Steam the couscous and serve the tagine over it.

In a plan

This is one of the dishes our plans cook from, and plans serve it for lunch or dinner, or as the iftar meal in Ramadan. There, the halal chicken thigh, skinless, wholewheat couscous (dry weight) and olive oil are weighed out to your own numbers; everything else stays as written.

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General guidance, not medical advice. Please check with your doctor if you have a medical condition, are pregnant, or are new to exercise. Check every ingredient against your own allergies.