Smoky Bacon Chickpea Couscous

A simple Mediterranean-inspired meal-prep dish with crispy bacon, chickpeas, zucchini, tomatoes, spinach, and fluffy couscous. It reheats quickly for an easy lunch without feeling heavy.

Smoky Bacon Chickpea Couscous
Prep time
10 min
Cook time
20 min
Yield
1 serving

Ingredients

  • 60 g Bacon
  • 1 g Black Pepper
  • 120 g Chickpeas
  • 160 g Diced tomatoes
  • 70 g Dry couscous
  • 5 g Garlic
  • 10 g Lemon juice
  • 5 g Olive oil
  • 2 g Paprika
  • 1 g Salt
  • 40 g Spinach
  • 50 g Yellow Onion
  • 120 g Zucchini

Instructions

  1. Dice the bacon, onion, zucchini, and garlic. Rinse and drain the chickpeas.
  2. Heat a skillet over medium heat and cook the bacon until browned and crisp. Transfer the bacon to a plate, leaving a little rendered fat in the skillet.
  3. Add the olive oil and onion to the skillet. Cook until the onion softens, then stir in the garlic, zucchini, paprika, salt, and black pepper.
  4. Add the diced tomatoes and chickpeas. Simmer until the zucchini is tender and the mixture is slightly thickened.
  5. Stir in the spinach until wilted, then add the cooked bacon back to the skillet.
  6. Prepare the couscous with hot water according to the package directions, then fluff it with a fork.
  7. Spoon the bacon chickpea mixture over the couscous and finish with lemon juice. Cool before packing for meal prep.