Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, vegetable couscous. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Vegetable Couscous is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Vegetable Couscous is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have vegetable couscous using 34 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Couscous:
- Get For the stew:
- Prepare 1 large aubergine, cut into 5 cm cubes
- Get 2 medium onions, peeled and quartered
- Prepare 1 swede, peeled and cut into 5 cm cubes
- Make ready 4 sticks celery cut into 5 cm pieces
- Get 4 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 5 cm pieces
- Prepare 1 large leek, sliced into 5 cm pieces
- Make ready 1 red and 1 green pepper, cut into 5 cm squares
- Make ready 4 tomatoes, quartered
- Make ready 150 g green beans
- Prepare 2 medium courgettes, sliced 2 cm thick
- Prepare 2 tablespoons ras el hanout spice mix
- Get 1 teaspoon spicy harissa (add more to taste)
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Take 2 large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
- Get 2 chicken or vegetable stock cubes, dissolved in 750 ml of boiling water
- Take Olive oil for frying
- Get Salt and black pepper
- Take For the couscous:
- Take 750 ml boiling water
- Take 500 g medium couscous
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Make ready Optional:
- Make ready 1 x 400g can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- Take 1 tablespoon each of chopped fresh coriander, parsley and mint
- Make ready For the spicy sauce:
- Get 3 – 4 ladles of broth from the vegetable stew
- Get 2 tablespoons tomato purée
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Get 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
- Prepare 1 tablespoon harissa, more (or less) if you prefer
- Get to taste Salt
Roasted vegetable couscous is instant a favorite. Vegetables are tossed in a flavorful olive oil, roasted until caramelized and tossed with couscous. I've been obsessed with two things since. Aubergines are wonderful roasted, serve with couscous and topped with chickpeas to make this flavourful vegetarian dish.
Instructions to make Vegetable Couscous:
- To make the stew: - In a big saucepan, fry the aubergine in a little olive oil until it begins to brown and is almost cooked through. Remove to a dish and place to one side.
- Pour some more olive oil into the pan and add the other vegetables, except for the green beans and the courgettes. Fry over a high heat until they show small patches of colour. Add the stock.
- Add all of the spices and the garlic. Mix well.
- Add the fried aubergine, the green beans and the courgettes, then continue to simmer very gently until the beans and courgettes are tender.
- Make the couscous as per the packet, adding the salt, olive oil (and the chickpeas if using).
- To make the spicy sauce: - Put the 3 – 4 ladles of stock from the vegetables into a saucepan, add the tomato purée, the sugar, the pomegranate syrup and the harissa to taste. Season with salt, simmer for about 5 minutes.
- To serve: - Fluff up the couscous with a fork and, if you wish, add the chopped fresh herbs and mix well.
- Spoon some couscous onto each plate, make a well in the centre and ladle on the vegetable stew.
- Add the meat, fish, chicken or sausages if you’re serving them, and pass round the spicy sauce.
Surround the couscous with the vegetable tagine, and spoon some of the brothy sauce over each serving. Garnish as desired with harissa, slivered almonds, raisins, and parsley. Chicken Vegetable Couscous: Let's go off to Northern Africa for the inspiration behind this fabulously simple dish which uses the worlds smallest pasta - couscous. A blend of Scotch bonnet, Garlic. Mix vegetables and couscous together, add lemon juice and remaining olive oil and fluff with a fork before serving.
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