This roasted vegetable couscous recipe features peppers, courgettes, and onions roasted with cumin and harissa. It also includes fluffy couscous, salty feta, and a lemon-garlic dressing.
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I know I’ve said it before, but my favourite meals are a mish-mash of different cuisines, textures, and flavours. I like a wide variety of sensory and flavour experiences when I eat.
Roasted vegetable couscous salad is one of those multi-textured dishes – you’ve got your soft couscous spiked with lemon and harissa, your salty feta cheese, your crispy and crunchy roasted peppers and courgettes. It’s a perfect accompaniment to Egyptian lamb meatballs cooked in tomato sauce (a new recipe I was trying from Amina’s Home Cooking), squeaky Greek halloumi cheese with a drizzle of fiery chilli oil and toasted cumin-spiked hummus with a drizzle of lemon olive oil.
This roasted vegetable couscous salad is also super easy to make, and the spoonful of harissa paste gives it a nice little kick. Fire, I tell you, I want all the fire! I always serve a side of cooling yoghurt, though, for those who need it.
This is one of those meals where you can leisurely potter about your kitchen, enjoying the experience of cooking and combining flavours.
Ingredients for roasted vegetable couscous
- 1 red pepper
- 1 yellow pepper
- 1 courgette
- 4 garlic cloves
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 red onion
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tbsp harissa paste
- 250 grams couscous
- 1/2 pint hot vegetable stock
- 1 lemon – zest & juice
- 1 handful flat-leaf parsley
- 100 grams of feta cheese
- salt & pepper to taste
Equipment needed
- sharp knives –
- baking sheet – I use a black iron one from the Netherton Foundry in Shropshire
- small mixing bowl
- lemon zester & juicer
- fork
- measuring spoons
- measuring jug
- large serving bowl
How to make it
- Cut the red pepper, yellow pepper and courgette into bite-sized pieces. Place on a baking tray with the garlic (leave it unpeeled) and drizzle with 2 tbsp of the olive oil. Roast at 200 C/ 180 C fan for 20 minutes.
- Add the quartered red onion, cumin seeds, and harissa, and roast for another 10-20 minutes. Cool.
- Meanwhile, pour the hot vegetable stock over the dry couscous. Cover and leave for five minutes.
- Prepare the salad dressing by combining the remaining olive oil with the juice and zest of one lemon and with the roasted garlic.
- Finely chop plenty of flat-leaf parsley and mix together with the couscous, roasted vegetables, feta cheese and salad dressing.
- Serve at room temperature.
Recipe Difficulty Levels
Easy
Requires basic cooking skills and ingredients you most likely already have in your kitchen.
Moderate
Requires more experience, preparation and/or cooking time. You may have to source special ingredients.
Challenging
Recipes requiring more advanced skills and experience and maybe some special equipment.
Recipe: Roasted Vegetable Couscous Salad
Ingredients
- 1 red bell peppers
- 1 yellow bell pepper
- 1 courgette
- 4 garlic cloves unpeeled
- 1 red onion
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp whole cumin seeds
- 1 tbsp harissa paste
- 250 grams couscous
- 1/2 pint vegetable stock
- 1 lemon zest & juice
- 1 handful fresh parsley chopped
- 100 grams feta cheese
- Shetland sea salt to taste
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
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Instructions
- Cut 1 red bell peppers, 1 yellow bell pepper and 1 courgette into bite-sized pieces.
- Place the vegetables on a baking tray along with 4 garlic cloves (leave them unpeeled) and drizzle with 2 tbsp of 3 tbsp olive oil.
- Roast at 200 °C/ 180 °C fan for 20 minutes.
- Add 1 red onion, quartered, 1 tsp whole cumin seeds and 1 tbsp harissa paste and roast for a further 10-20 minutes.
- Cool, reserving the garlic for the dressing.
- Meanwhile, pour 1/2 pint vegetable stock over 250 grams couscous. Cover and leave for five minutes.
- Prepare the dressing by combining the remaining olive oil along with the juice and zest of 1 lemon and the roasted garlic.
- Finely chop 1 handful fresh parsley and mix together with the couscous, roasted vegetables, 100 grams feta cheese and dressing.
- Season well with Shetland sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Serve at room temperature.
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