Dinner Nigella Style

I adore Nigella. I enjoy her writing and I think her television shows are the perfect blend of food porn, gorgeous woman porn, and expensive heiress lifestyle I can't afford porn. Her taste in flavours aligns pretty closely to my own, and I've always had good luck with her recipes.

Tonight's dinner was a takeoff of a meal she presented in the "Fast Food" episode of Nigella Bites.

Garlic Chicken, Couscous with Yogurt Sauce.

Marinate 8 chicken thighs in a ziploc bag with 3 smashed garlic cloves and a couple of generous pours of olive oil.

Place the chicken in a baking dish and bake in a 400F oven for 30 minutes.
Sprinkle some coarse salt over the chicken and turn the broiler in your oven on to brown and crisp the skin.

Couscous with Chickpeas and Black Currants

1 part couscous (I use about 2 cups)
1 part boiling chicken or vegetable stock.
1 can chickpeas
3 Tbsp black currants.

Combine everything in a bowl and seal with tin foil or a lid. Allow to sit for 7 - 10 minutes.
Fluff with a fork.

While the couscous is doing its' thing...

Finely chop one seeded hot pepper
Finely chop 3 green onions
Chiffonade a small handful of mint
Mix with 1 cup of full fat greek yogurt.
Salt to taste.

It really is fast food. 40 from minutes begining to end (apart from marinating the chicken, which you can start in the morning before you leave for work) and most of that time you are doing nothing.

In the original recipe Nigella grills her chicken, omits the currants, and uses parsley instead of mint in the sauce, but I can't leave anything alone. I need to tinker.