Roasted veg & couscous salad
By Good Food
Throw together a filling and fragrant couscous salad for a vegetarian lunchbox meal, or double it for a buffet
- Prep:10 mins
Cook:40 mins
- Serves 4
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
- kcal 399
- fat 18g
- saturates 2g
- carbs 58g
- sugars 14g
- fibre 5g
- protein 11g
- salt 0.86g
Ingredients
- 1 red and 1 yellow pepper, halved and deseeded
- ½ butternut squash
- 2 courgettes, thickly sliced
- 4 garlic cloves, leave skin on
- 3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 red onion, thickly sliced
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tbsp harissa paste
- 50g whole blanched almonds
- 250g couscous
- 300ml hot vegetable stock
- zest and juice 1 lemon
- 20g pack mint, roughly chopped
Method
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Cut peppers and squash into bite-size pieces (leave skin on the squash). Tip all the veg into a baking tray, add garlic, 2 tbsp oil and seasoning, then mix and roast for 20 mins. Add onion, cumin, harissa and almonds. Roast for another 20 mins, then cool.
Put couscous into a large bowl, pour over the stock, cover, then set aside for 10 mins. Fluff up with a fork.
In a bowl, mix zest, juice and remaining oil. Squeeze garlic pulp from skins into the bowl, mash well and fold in the mint. Pour over the veg, then toss with the couscous.