One Pan Chicken & @sanremopasta Couscous with Middle Eastern Flavours The perfect, simple, one pan autumn dinner dish to enjoy as it gets a bit cooler. Comforting flavours of chicken cooked through couscous, combined with the freshness of the parsley garnish, makes this a great mid-week dish to please the whole family! We partnered with @sanremopasta using their delicious couscous to bring you this recipe and the added bonus is there is only one pan to clean!
One Pan Chicken & Couscous

Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 55 minutes
Serves: 4 - 6 People
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- Prep time: 15 minutes
- Cook time: 55 minutes
- Total time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Serves: 4 - 6 People
Ingredients
- 500 g San Remo couscous
- 1 Red onion
- Olive oil
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 2 Lemons
- 2 Sweet potatoes
- 1 bunch Washed parsley
- 150 g Sultanas/currants
- 1 L Chicken stock
- 4 Chicken Marylands , (4 thighs + 4 drumsticks)
- Cumin
- Salt
Method
- 1)
Start by preheating your oven to 200°C on fan force.
- 2)
Next finely dice 1 red onion, then pop it in an ovenproof pan with some olive oil on medium heat.
- 3)
While the onion is sweating down, roughly chop 2 garlic cloves, zest 2 lemons and peel and slice 2 sweet potatoes into approx. 1 cm discs, then add to the pan and cook for approx. 5 minutes.
- 4)
Then pop 500g of San Remo couscous, 150g sultanas/currents and 1L of chicken stock into the pan.
- 5)
Now knock off the top half of a bunch of washed parsley and chop it very finely (set aside half of the chopped parsley for the garnish).
- 6)
Add the chopped parsley to the pan before giving the couscous a good stir around.
- 7)
Now lay 4 chicken thighs and 4 chicken drumsticks around the pan, then sprinkle with some cumin and salt.
- 8)
Top up the pan with some water (the water must come up to the level of the couscous) before popping the pan into the oven for approx. 50 minutes.
- 9)
Once the chicken is out of the oven let is sit for approx. 10 minutes, then add the juice of 1-2 lemons and garnish with some chopped parsley.