Featured Recipe:
Mediterranean Chicken Couscous
If You Can Boil Water, You Can Make Couscous
Light and fluffy couscous is a quick alternative to rice, pasta, or potatoes that cooks in just five minutes. Made from semolina, the same ingredient as in pasta, couscous provides a good source of complex carbohydrates and B vitamins. Find it on the rice aisle of most grocery stores, and enjoy it by itself or with meat and vegetables. To add more fiber and whole grains to your diet, look for whole wheat couscous in specialty food stores.
Bring broth to a boil. Stir hot broth into dry couscous.
Cover couscous with a plate, and let stand 5 minutes.
Uncover and fluff couscous with a fork.
Stir in chicken, basil, feta, tomatoes, lemon, and pepper.
Toss ingredients,and serve warm or cold.
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HEALTHY BENEFITS
Choose salt-free seasonings or reduced-sodium chicken broth to decrease blood pressure along with the chance of heart-related diseases.
Spinach contains vitamins A and C, folic acid, and magnesium to help reduce the risk of cancer and to help prevent osteoporosis.
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This article is from the January 2006 issue of Southern Living.
