Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, vegetable couscous. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Vegetable Couscous is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Vegetable Couscous is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook vegetable couscous using 34 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Couscous:
- Take For the stew:
- Get large aubergine, cut into 5 cm cubes
- Prepare medium onions, peeled and quartered
- Get swede, peeled and cut into 5 cm cubes
- Get celery cut into 5 cm pieces
- Take medium carrots, peeled and cut into 5 cm pieces
- Prepare large leek, sliced into 5 cm pieces
- Take red and 1 green pepper, cut into 5 cm squares
- Make ready tomatoes, quartered
- Make ready green beans
- Take medium courgettes, sliced 2 cm thick
- Prepare ras el hanout spice mix
- Get spicy harissa (add more to taste)
- Make ready ground cinnamon
- Get bay leaf
- Prepare large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
- Prepare chicken or vegetable stock cubes, dissolved in 750 ml of boiling water
- Prepare Olive oil for frying
- Make ready Salt and black pepper
- Prepare For the couscous:
- Prepare boiling water
- Take medium couscous
- Make ready salt
- Make ready olive oil
- Take Optional:
- Get x 400g can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- Get each of chopped fresh coriander, parsley and mint
- Prepare For the spicy sauce:
- Take – 4 ladles of broth from the vegetable stew
- Take tomato purée
- Prepare sugar
- Prepare pomegranate molasses
- Make ready harissa, more (or less) if you prefer
- Make ready Salt
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.
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