Utopienne Recipe ⊷ Asian Greens with Chicken

Easy weeknight recipe with plenty of room for variation: use chicken or fish, bok choi, tat soi, choy sum, mustard greens, or turnip greens. It's made with things I normally have on hand (greens, onions tomatoes, cheese, frozen protein, couscous or rice) and cooks up in a jiffy. Feels like a real treat!

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Calories:525.7
Asian Greens with Chicken
Prep:15m
Cook:20m
Ready in:35m
Serving:2 servings

Ingredients

  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • ¼ cup diced onion
  • 3 chicken tenders
  • 1 pinch garlic salt
  • cracked black pepper to taste
  • ¾ cup bok choy, chopped
  • 1 ⅓ cups water
  • 1 (5.6 ounce) box couscous, (such as Near East® Toasted Pine Nut)
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 12 cherry tomatoes, halved
  • ¼ ounce grated Mizithra cheese

Cooking Directions

  1. Heat 2 teaspoons olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Saute onions in hot oil until slightly softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Place chicken in skillet and season with garlic salt and black pepper. Cover the skillet with a lid and cook until chicken is browned on one side, 3 to 5 minutes. Turn chicken and season with garlic salt and black pepper on the other side. Transfer chicken and onions to a cutting board and chop chicken.
  2. Stir bok choy into the same skillet, reduce heat to low, cover the skillet with a lid, and cook until greens are slightly tender, about 1 1/2 minutes.
  3. Bring water to a boil in a saucepan; remove from heat. Stir couscous spice packet contents and 1 tablespoon olive oil into water; add couscous. Cover saucepan and let stand until water is absorbed completely, about 10 minutes. Fluff couscous with a fork.
  4. Spoon couscous onto plates, top with greens, onions, and chicken, respectively, and sprinkle tomatoes and Mizithra cheese over the top.
You can substitute tilapia filets for chicken, if desired. With fish I would avoid using cheese; You can use any flavor couscous (my favorite is toasted pine nut); Can use other Greek cheeses; Mizithra cheese is a hard, tart, sour cheese from Greece.

Nutrition Facts

  • calories525.7
  • carbohydrateContent66.6 g
  • cholesterolContent49.9 mg
  • fatContent18.9 g
  • fiberContent5 g
  • proteinContent30.6 g
  • saturatedFatContent3.3 g
  • sodiumContent1065.4 mg
  • sugarContent4.7 g
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