I generally avoid cooking ethnic food at all. Sometimes, just for myself, I make an okoyomiyaki (my fav japanese dish), I eat it and then I feel like an american in front of fettuccine alfredo ;)
But a few days ago I was watching a cooking show on the telly and they were making a recipe with chicken, pear, couscous: looked yummy, maybe too far from the boundaries set by the glorious italian tradition but I was feeling adventurous enough :)
CHICKEN WITH PEARS AND COUSCOUS
I sliced a whole onion and gently fried it in the pan with a spoon of EVO oil, then I added the chicken cut into pieces. I had some beef stock ready in the fridge, so I melted the saffron into a glass of stock and added it to the chicken and let the pan go. In a different pan, I cooked two pears sliced with butter and honey until tender, and added it to the chicken only when the latter was ready.
Separately, I prepared the couscous following the instruction on the package and using the beef stock. I sliced a boiled carrot that was left when I prepared the beef stock and added it to the couscous.
I served the chicken on a couscous bed and the pear slices all around, to give my brother the opportunity to ignore the fruit and just go for the chicken, but he surprised me and shyly placed into his plate a slice of pear, moaning - he really loves me!
