Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, vegetable couscous. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Vegetable Couscous is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Vegetable Couscous is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vegetable couscous using 34 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Couscous:
- Prepare For the stew:
- Take 1 large aubergine, cut into 5 cm cubes
- Get 2 medium onions, peeled and quartered
- Take 1 swede, peeled and cut into 5 cm cubes
- Make ready 4 sticks celery cut into 5 cm pieces
- Take 4 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 5 cm pieces
- Make ready 1 large leek, sliced into 5 cm pieces
- Get 1 red and 1 green pepper, cut into 5 cm squares
- Prepare 4 tomatoes, quartered
- Make ready 150 g green beans
- Get 2 medium courgettes, sliced 2 cm thick
- Take 2 tablespoons ras el hanout spice mix
- Make ready 1 teaspoon spicy harissa (add more to taste)
- Get 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Get 1 bay leaf
- Take 2 large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
- Take 2 chicken or vegetable stock cubes, dissolved in 750 ml of boiling water
- Take Olive oil for frying
- Prepare Salt and black pepper
- Prepare For the couscous:
- Make ready 750 ml boiling water
- Take 500 g medium couscous
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Get Optional:
- Take 1 x 400g can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- Prepare 1 tablespoon each of chopped fresh coriander, parsley and mint
- Prepare For the spicy sauce:
- Take 3 – 4 ladles of broth from the vegetable stew
- Get 2 tablespoons tomato purée
- Get 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Take 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
- Take 1 tablespoon harissa, more (or less) if you prefer
- Get to taste 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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