Couscous Stuffed Chicken Breast with Feta, Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Kalamata Olives

Recipe courtesy Guy Fieri, 2008

Show: Guy's Big Bite Episode: Mediterranean Marination

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Total Time:
40 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
25 min
Yield:
4 servings
Level:
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Ingredients

For the couscous:

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 4 tablespoons sun-dried tomatoes, drained and chopped
  • 4 tablespoons kalamata olives, chopped
  • 2 cups chicken stock
  • 1 (10-ounce) box couscous
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1/2 pound feta cheese, crumbled

For chicken:

  • 4 (6-ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon butter

For the sauce:

  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1/2 cup white wine
  • 1/2 lemon, juiced
  • 6 tablespoons julienned sun-dried tomatoes
  • 4 tablespoons roughly chopped kalamata olives
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1/4 pound feta cheese, crumbled, for garnish

For the couscous:

Directions

In saucepan over medium heat add olive oil, when hot, add the garlic and red pepper flakes. Add the sun-dried tomatoes and saute a few minutes more. Add olives and chicken stock and bring to a boil. Add the box of couscous, turn off heat and let stand covered for 5 minutes. Fluff with fork, and season with salt and pepper. Spread 2 cups on large plate, add in 1/2 pound feta, and let cool. Keep the remaining hot to serve with chicken. (Put in covered casserole and reheat in oven last 10 minutes with chicken.)

For the chicken:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Trim chicken with a boning knife, if needed. Start at top of breast and carefully make a lengthwise cut from top to bottom and making a pocket about 2 inches, making sure not to pierce the other side of the breast. When couscous is cool enough to handle, carefully spoon couscous mixture into pocket. Even out the stuffing by gently moving it around with your hands. Wipe off any excess couscous from outside of breasts and season with salt and pepper.

Heat olive oil and butter in saute pan and brown off both sides of chicken. Place chicken on baking sheet and place in oven for 20 minutes.

While chicken is baking, make the sauce.

For the sauce:

In saute pan that you cooked chicken breasts in, heat and add garlic. Deglaze with white wine and add lemon juice. Reduce by one third. Add in sun-dried tomatoes, let reduce for 2 to 3 minutes, add the olives, turn off heat, add the butter and stir to combine.

To serve, place couscous from oven on plate, cut chicken breast in half, top with sauce, crumble remaining feta cheese over.

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  • on March 04, 2012

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    Great recipe. Made is a while ago and I'm making it again. The leftovers are great also.

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  • on February 16, 2012

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    I made this for my husband on Valentines Day and it was wonderful. The chicken was so moist and the flavors just burst in your mouth. Will definetly make this again!

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  • on January 23, 2012

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    Not impressed. It was fine, but not worth the effort and mess it took to make it. I love to cook, and I love all these flavors, but all together it was just intense. I agree with others who said it took longer than the recipe says and that it was too much couscous--the stuffing would have been enough without the side. Having read the reviews, I only used 1.5 cups of couscous rather than the 2 for the stuffing--and I still had extra! My husband liked it more than I did. It was certainly a pretty and impressive looking dish. It was fine overall--but having been the one who made it, I would not do so again. Effort just not worth the end result. Too many other really good dishes out there for such okay!

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