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You’ll Love This Chicken and Kielbasa Couscous Recipe

Chicken and Kielbasa Couscous

You’ll Love This Chicken and Kielbasa Couscous Recipe

Have you ever wanted a new and unique way to have chicken and kielbasa? This recipe is for you! We combine the best of many worlds by mixing chicken, kielbasa, and couscous together to make a great dinner everyone will enjoy.

When picking out your couscous, we recommend selecting one that is neutral in flavor. That way, this recipe's own flavors can really shine. But, if you feel that this recipe needs more punch, go for parmesan or mushroom couscous. Both of those flavors will surely delight.

If your family has never tried kielbasa before, we think this is a great place to start. Pick high quality kielbasa so you can get a proper taste of what this delicious food is all about. Once you've tried it, you might just want to find a recipe that stars kielbasa all on its own!

If you're still in need of other chicken dinners, rest assured that we have plenty of them. We've written dozens of recipes with chicken as the center focus, all for your ease of cooking. With our aid, you'll be finished planning the week's meals before you even know it!

Chicken and Kielbasa Couscous

Ingredients:

1/4 pound skinless, boneless chicken breasts
6 ounces fully cooked kielbasa, halved lengthwise and sliced into ½-inch pieces
2 stalks celery, sliced
2 medium carrots, thinly sliced
1 1/3 cups chicken broth
1 cup couscous
1 medium green pepper, cut into strips
1 cup chicken broth
1 Tablespoon cornstarch

 

Directions:

1.  Rinse chicken, pat dry.  Cut into bite-size strips and set aside.

2.  In a 10-inch skillet cook and stir kielbasa, celery, carrots over medium-high heat about 5 minutes or until kielbasa is browned.

3.  Reduce heat, cover and cook for 3 to 5 minutes more or until carrots are nearly tender. Drain off fat.

4.  Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan bring the 1 1/3 cups broth to boiling. Stir in couscous; cover remove from heat. Let stand while preparing meat and vegetable mixture.

5.  Add chicken and green pepper to skillet, cook and stir over medium-high heat for 3 to 5 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.

6.  Combine the 1 cup broth and cornstarch, stir into skillet.

7.  Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened and bubbly, then cook and stir for 2 minutes more.

8.  Fluff couscous with a fork. Serve chicken mixture over couscous. Makes 4 servings.

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