Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, vegetable couscous. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Vegetable Couscous is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Vegetable Couscous is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have vegetable couscous using 34 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Couscous:
- Take For the stew:
- Make ready 1 large aubergine, cut into 5 cm cubes
- Get 2 medium onions, peeled and quartered
- Get 1 swede, peeled and cut into 5 cm cubes
- Take 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
- Make ready 150 g green beans
- Prepare 2 medium courgettes, sliced 2 cm thick
- Prepare 2 tablespoons ras el hanout spice mix
- Prepare 1 teaspoon spicy harissa (add more to taste)
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 2 large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
- Get 2 chicken or vegetable stock cubes, dissolved in 750 ml of boiling water
- Get Olive oil for frying
- Take Salt and black pepper
- Take For the couscous:
- Take 750 ml boiling water
- Get 500 g medium couscous
- Take 1 teaspoon salt
- Take 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Make ready Optional:
- Take 1 x 400g can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- Prepare 1 tablespoon each of chopped fresh coriander, parsley and mint
- Make ready For the spicy sauce:
- Take 3 – 4 ladles of broth from the vegetable stew
- Get 2 tablespoons tomato purée
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Take 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
- Get 1 tablespoon harissa, more (or less) if you prefer
- Get to taste Salt
Steps 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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