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Chicken, olive and lemon traybake with a pearl cous cous salad

Bursting with Mediterranean flavours, this dish is a feast for the eyes and tastebuds

Bursting with Mediterranean flavours, this dish is a feast for the eyes and tastebuds

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Cooking Time

Cook: 1 Hour 10 Mins

Cooking Time

Serves: 4

Cooking Time

Price: £2.10 per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 412g serving contains

Energy
2225kj
531kcal
27%
Fat
19.8g
Med
28%
Saturates
4.5g
Med
23%
Sugars
3.3g
Low
4%
Salt
1.40g
Med
23%
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
540kj/129kcal

Ingredients

2 packs Extra Special British Corn-fed Norfolk Free-range Chicken Legs (typically 550g each)

2 ½ lemons, thickly sliced, plus juice ½ lemon

100g pitted green olives

6 cloves garlic, crushed

6 shallots, peeled and halved

1tbsp dried oregano

1tbsp rapeseed oil

1 reduced-salt chicken stock cube

150g Osem Israeli Cous Cous

60g wild rocket

10g flat-leaf parsley, chopped

Method

1
Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
2
On a large baking tray, toss the chicken, lemon slices, olives, garlic, shallots, oregano and oil. Season with pepper. Roast for 50-60 mins, tossing occasionally, until the chicken is cooked through with golden, crispy skin.
3
Dissolve the stock cube in 200ml boiling water inapan. Add the cous cous. Cook for 12 mins. Drain, rinse with cold water, drain fully then fluff with a fork.
4
Stir the lemon juice and rocket through the couscous, reserving a few rocket leaves to garnish.
5
Sprinkle the traybake with the reserved rocket and the parsley. Serve with the cous cous.