chicken and chickpeas
- Ingredients for seared chicken and chickpeas
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Ingredients:
- 4 chicken breasts skinned
- 300g couscous
- 300g cooked chick peas
- 2 teaspoon cumin seeds.crushed
- 6 green cardamom pods, seeds only
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds, crushed
- 1 small red chilli, finely chopped
- 1 cm fresh ginger, finely chopped
- 450 ml chicken stock, this allows 50ml extra
- 1 tablespoon tomato puree (put this into the chicken not the couscous)
- 1 large pinch saffron strands, soaked in 1 tablespoon warm water
- 2 tablespoons raisins, soaked
- 2 tomatoes, skinned, seeded and finely diced
- 1 very large bunch fresh coriander, roughly chopped
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper

