Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, vegetable couscous. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Vegetable Couscous is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Vegetable Couscous is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular 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:
- Get For the stew:
- Make ready 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
- Get 4 sticks celery cut into 5 cm pieces
- Prepare 4 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 5 cm pieces
- Prepare 1 large leek, sliced into 5 cm pieces
- Take 1 red and 1 green pepper, cut into 5 cm squares
- Get 4 tomatoes, quartered
- Take 150 g green beans
- Take 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
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 2 large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
- Prepare 2 chicken or vegetable stock cubes, dissolved in 750 ml of boiling water
- Prepare Olive oil for frying
- Get Salt and black pepper
- Make ready For the couscous:
- Make ready 750 ml boiling water
- Make ready 500 g medium couscous
- Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Prepare Optional:
- Get 1 x 400g can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- Make ready 1 tablespoon each of chopped fresh coriander, parsley and mint
- Prepare For the spicy sauce:
- Prepare 3 – 4 ladles of broth from the vegetable stew
- Make ready 2 tablespoons tomato purée
- Take 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Make ready 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
- Prepare 1 tablespoon harissa, more (or less) if you prefer
- Take 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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