Chicken breast cubes simmered in a sweet and spicy lime-soy glaze are served with cilantro couscous in this quick and easy supper.
Preparation Time
15 mins
Cooking Time
15 mins
Total Time
30 mins
Calories
380 Calories
Recipe Instructions
Step 1
Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir chicken breast cubes in the hot oil until the juices run clear and chicken is no longer pink inside, 5 to 6 minutes. Sprinkle chicken with monosodium glutamate as it cooks. Remove chicken from skillet.
Step 2
Mix soy sauce, brown sugar, red pepper flakes, lime juice, and lime zest in a bowl, stirring to dissolve sugar. Pour sauce into hot skillet, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until sauce begins to reduce slightly, 3 to 4 minutes. Mix cooked chicken into sauce and cook until sauce forms a glaze on chicken pieces, about 2 to 3 more minutes, stirring often.
Step 3
Bring vegetable broth to a boil in a saucepan. Stir couscous into vegetable broth, turn off the heat, and let couscous stand until broth is absorbed, about 5 minutes. Stir cilantro into couscous.
Step 4
Arrange couscous onto a serving platter, top with chicken and sauce, and serve with lime wedges. Squeeze lime wedges over couscous and chicken before serving.
Ingredients
6 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 cups vegetable broth
1 cup couscous
6 tablespoons soy sauce
1 lime, juiced and zested
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cubed
4 wedges lime for garnish
0.5 teaspoon red pepper flakes, or more to taste
0.33333334326744 cup chopped cilantro
1 pinch monosodium glutamate (such as Ac'cent®), or to taste
