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🍽️ Chicken Thighs in Tomato Sauce with Herb Couscous

517 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with fan.
  2. 2. Rinse the chicken meat thoroughly.
  3. 3. Pat the meat dry with kitchen paper.
  4. 4. Season the meat with salt and half of the Aglio e Olio mixture.
  5. 5. Set the meat aside to reach room temperature.
  6. 6. Halve the onions and remove the skin.
  7. 7. Cut the onions into small cubes.
  8. 8. Wash the tomatoes well.
  9. 9. Heat one tablespoon of oil in a pot over medium heat.
  10. 10. Fry the onions and tomatoes for two minutes.
  11. 11. Deglaze the mixture with puréed tomatoes.
  12. 12. Let the sauce simmer for five minutes over low to medium heat.
  13. 13. Heat two tablespoons of oil in a pan over high heat.
  14. 14. Fry the chicken on all sides for three minutes until golden brown.
  15. 15. Place the fried chicken into a baking dish.
  16. 16. Season the tomato sauce with salt, pepper, and optionally a little sugar.
  17. 17. Pour the sauce over the chicken in the dish.
  18. 18. Cook the chicken for ten minutes in the oven in the sauce.
  19. 19. Rinse out the pot.
  20. 20. Bring about 400 milliliters of salted water to a boil in the pot, covered.
  21. 21. Wash the carrot.
  22. 22. Peel the carrot.
  23. 23. Remove the ends of the carrot.
  24. 24. Grate the carrot coarsely.
  25. 25. Stir the couscous, the remaining Aglio e Olio, and the carrot shavings into the boiling water.
  26. 26. Remove the pot from the heat.
  27. 27. Let the couscous swell, covered, for ten minutes.
  28. 28. Wash the parsley.
  29. 29. Shake the parsley dry.
  30. 30. Pluck the leaves from the stems.
  31. 31. Cut the parsley leaves into fine strips.
  32. 32. Add the parsley to the finished couscous.
  33. 33. Season the couscous with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
  34. 34. Take the chicken out of the oven.
  35. 35. Serve the chicken with the sauce and couscous on plates.

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