Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, vegetable couscous. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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’s quick, it tastes yummy. Vegetable Couscous is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vegetable couscous using 34 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Couscous:
- Make ready For the stew:
- Prepare 1 large aubergine, cut into 5 cm cubes
- Make ready 2 medium onions, peeled and quartered
- Take 1 swede, peeled and cut into 5 cm cubes
- Prepare 4 sticks celery cut into 5 cm pieces
- Prepare 4 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 5 cm pieces
- Get 1 large leek, sliced into 5 cm pieces
- Prepare 1 red and 1 green pepper, cut into 5 cm squares
- Take 4 tomatoes, quartered
- Prepare 150 g green beans
- Make ready 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
- Prepare 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 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
- Prepare Salt and black pepper
- Get For the couscous:
- Take 750 ml boiling water
- Prepare 500 g medium couscous
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Take Optional:
- Get 1 x 400g can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- Get 1 tablespoon each of chopped fresh coriander, parsley and mint
- Take For the spicy sauce:
- Take 3 – 4 ladles of broth from the vegetable stew
- Get 2 tablespoons tomato purée
- Get 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Get 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
- Prepare 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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