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Roasted courgette and couscous salad

Mukta
2-3 servings
Beginner
This summer apart from our usual cherry tomatoes and chillies, we tried planting courgettes and now the plant has been on a roll! We've been harvesting 1-2 courgettes every week so included this lovely vegetable in my couscous salad. I have cooked couscous many times before but I absolutely loved the flavours when I made it this time around, so thought of sharing this recipe. The salad requires a bit of prep work with all the grilling and roasting, but if you wish, you can skip roasting the peppers by using roasted peppers in a jar instead.
Roasted courgette and couscous salad

Total Steps

6

Ingredients

11

Tools Needed

1

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Ingredients

  • 1 item courgette, sliced
  • 1 1/2 items mixed peppers (yellow and red), roughly chopped
  • 100 grams cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 2 items spring onions, chopped
  • 200 grams plain dried couscous
  • 300 milliliters hot vegetable stock
  • 1 tablespoon dried mint
  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (plus extra for drizzling)
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • handful raisins
  • to taste salt

Instructions

1

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 220C. Put the peppers in a roasting tin, drizzle with some olive oil and season with some salt. Roast them in the oven for 25-30 minutes, tossing them halfway through.

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Step 2

Put the couscous in a large bowl with the raisins. Pour over the stock. Cover and leave aside for 5-10 minutes or until all the stock has been absorbed.

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Step 3

In the meantime, in a bowl, add the sliced courgettes, drizzle with some olive oil and some salt. Coat well. Place a griddle pan over high heat. Cook the courgettes for 4-5 minutes, turning halfway through until softened and browned.

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Step 4

On the same griddle pan, toss the tomatoes and spring onions for a few minutes until lightly browned.

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Step 5

Combine 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice and the dried mint.

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Step 6

Fluff up the couscous with a fork. Add the courgettes, tomatoes and spring onions. Mix lightly. Drizzle with the olive oil, lemon and mint dressing. Season well and stir.

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