Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, vegetable couscous. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Vegetable Couscous is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Vegetable Couscous is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook vegetable couscous using 34 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Couscous:
- Make ready For the stew:
- Get 1 large aubergine, cut into 5 cm cubes
- Get 2 medium onions, peeled and quartered
- Make ready 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
- Get 1 large leek, sliced into 5 cm pieces
- Take 1 red and 1 green pepper, cut into 5 cm squares
- Get 4 tomatoes, quartered
- Get 150 g green beans
- Make ready 2 medium courgettes, sliced 2 cm thick
- Make ready 2 tablespoons ras el hanout spice mix
- Prepare 1 teaspoon spicy harissa (add more to taste)
- Get 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 2 large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
- Take 2 chicken or vegetable stock cubes, dissolved in 750 ml of boiling water
- Prepare Olive oil for frying
- Get Salt and black pepper
- Prepare For the couscous:
- Prepare 750 ml boiling water
- Get 500 g medium couscous
- Take 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Prepare Optional:
- Take 1 x 400g can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- Make ready 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
- Make ready 2 tablespoons tomato purée
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Get 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
- Make ready 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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