couscous and feta-stuffed peppers
I spent six hours on a train yesterday to and from my old stomping grounds, Washington D.C. I lived there for six years and haven’t been back in just as many, so you can imagine how crazy it was to only see twenty minutes of it, from a cab. With every turn, I jumped, remembering how we used to hang out legs out from that window above Dupont Circle over the sign for what used to be a hair salon, or that turn that always unnerved me to make from California to Connecticut and that block on Massachusetts Avenue not far from NPR where a hooker once flashed me as I gripped the steering wheel and willed the light to turn green already, PLEASE.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 13 of 15 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 13 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Couscous | 1 cup cooked (157g) | 176 |
| Chicken | 100g cooked | 165 |
| Chickpea | 1/2 cup canned (120g) drained | 134 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Feta Cheese | 1 oz (28g) cheddar | 113 |
| Cherry | 1 cup (138g) | 87 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Bell Pepper | 1 medium (119g) | 31 |
| Fennel | 1/2 bulb (87g) | 27 |
| Tomato | 1 medium (123g) | 22 |
| Cucumber | 1/2 cup sliced (52g) | 16 |
| Oregano | 1 tsp dried (1.8g) | 5 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Pumpkin | not in our table | 0 |
| Seed | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- Vegetable-oil cooking spray
- 1 1/4 cups fat-free chicken or vegetable broth
- 2/3 cup couscous
- 4 extra-large or 5 large bell peppers, mixed colors
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 6 oz zucchini, quartered lengthwise then sliced across thinly
- 6 oz yellow squash, quartered lengthwise then sliced across thinly
- 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half
- 15 oz canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 4 oz crumbled feta cheese (about 1 cup)
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste