Along with kale and Brussels sprouts, last year was an awesome year for the comeback of Greek-style yogurt. This thick and creamy yogurt makes an awesome substitute for sour cream, mayonnaise, cream cheese, and more.

But did you know that you can also use it to marinate meat? The yogurt helps tenderize the meat, leaves it with a tangy, zesty sort of flavor, and keeps the meat impossibly juicy!

For this week’s recipe, I altered a Pinterest-favorite developed by Beth from Budget Bytes. If you haven’t checked out her cooking blog yet, you totally should – it’s filled with healthy, budget-conscious recipes that were made to last several days in the refrigerator and freeze well. Her recipes are pretty simple, cover a wide range of flavors, and don’t require a bunch of really specific or uncommon cooking gadgets. In other words, pretty much perfect for a college girl on a shoestring budget!

Rather than just marinading the chicken in this tangy cool sauce, I thought it’d be yummy to make a little extra and use it as a sauce for the chicken and couscous. The results were great – my picky BFF loved the end product, and actually took the extra yogurt sauce home with her to eat later!

Let’s get right to it, shall we?

Table of Contents

Meal: Greek Chicken, Creamy Yogurt Sauce, and Couscous

Adapted from Budget Bytes’ Greek Marinated Chicken

What You’ll Need

• 1-2 lbs of meaty chicken pieces. Skin on or off, bones in or off. For this, I used skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs, but that was just because my grocery store was out of the boneless skinless variety.
• 1 ½ cups of Greek yogurt, thinned out with 1/2 cup of milk (or, you could just use 2 cups of regular plain yogurt)
• 1 lemon
• 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 2 cloves of garlic (or a spoonful of the minced jarred variety)
• 1 tablespoon of dried oregano
• 1 handful of flat-leaf parsley
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 box of couscous, whatever flavor you like (I used Roasted Garlic and Olive Oil)

How to Make It

Take your chicken out of the package, and rinse with cold water, then dry with paper towels. Toss them into a large bowl and set aside. Wash your hands well.