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Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, vegetable couscous. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Vegetable Couscous is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Vegetable Couscous is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegetable couscous using 34 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Couscous:

1. Get For the stew:
2. Make ready large aubergine, cut into 5 cm cubes
3. Make ready medium onions, peeled and quartered
4. Make ready swede, peeled and cut into 5 cm cubes
5. Take celery cut into 5 cm pieces
6. Get medium carrots, peeled and cut into 5 cm pieces
7. Prepare large leek, sliced into 5 cm pieces
8. Take red and 1 green pepper, cut into 5 cm squares
9. Prepare tomatoes, quartered
10. Take green beans
11. Make ready medium courgettes, sliced 2 cm thick
12. Take ras el hanout spice mix
13. Get spicy harissa (add more to taste)
14. Prepare ground cinnamon
15. Prepare bay leaf
16. Make ready large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
17. Make ready chicken or vegetable stock cubes, dissolved in 750 ml of boiling water
18. Prepare Olive oil for frying
19. Prepare Salt and black pepper
20. Take For the couscous:
21. Take boiling water
22. Make ready medium couscous
23. Get salt
24. Prepare olive oil
25. Get Optional:
26. Take x 400g can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
27. Make ready each of chopped fresh coriander, parsley and mint
28. Get For the spicy sauce:
29. Get – 4 ladles of broth from the vegetable stew
30. Prepare tomato purée
31. Make ready sugar
32. Get pomegranate molasses
33. Prepare harissa, more (or less) if you prefer
34. Get Salt

Steps to make Vegetable Couscous:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Add all of the spices and the garlic. Mix well.
4. Add the fried aubergine, the green beans and the courgettes, then continue to simmer very gently until the beans and courgettes are tender.
5. Make the couscous as per the packet, adding the salt, olive oil (and the chickpeas if using).
6. 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.
7. To serve: - Fluff up the couscous with a fork and, if you wish, add the chopped fresh herbs and mix well.
8. Spoon some couscous onto each plate, make a well in the centre and ladle on the vegetable stew.
9. Add the meat, fish, chicken or sausages if you’re serving them, and pass round the spicy sauce.

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