Harissa Vegetable and Jumbo Couscous

Harissa Vegetable and Jumbo Couscous

Another delicious recipe from the Hairy Bikers Fast Food book.
I had this with the Spiced Roasted Chicken with Minty Yogurt sauce from another of their books "Mums know best" also on this blog.

Serves 4

1 tsp oil

2 red onions, sliced into wedges

2 red peppers, deseeded and cut into strips

2 large courgettes, cut thinly on the diagonal

zest on 1 lemon

1 tsp cumin seeds

1tbsp tomato puree

1 tbsp harissa paste 

100ml hot vegetable stock

12 cherry tomatoes, halved

Couscous

500ml vegetable stock or water

100g jumbo couscous

200g salad leaves

squeeze of lemon juice

handful of mint leaves

handful of parsley leaves

salt and pepper

Heat the oil in a large frying pan (I used a wok).  Add the onions and peppers and fry overe high heat for 5 minutes.  Add the courgettes and cook for another couple of minutes.

Add the lemon zest and cumin seeds.  Whisk the tomato puree, harissa and 100ml stock and pour over the veg in the pan.  Turn down the heat and simmer for another 5 minutes until the veg are softened but still have a bit of bite.

Whilst the veg are cooking, pour the 500ml stock or water into a pan and add the couscous.  Season with salt and pepper.  Bring to the boil and cover the pan.  Turn down the heat and simmer for 6-8 minutes until the couscous has plumped up annd is tender.  Remove  from the heat and drain.

Add the tomatoes to the pan of veg, cover the pan and leave them to soften for a further minute.

Mix the couscous with the salad leaves, then add the vegetables and their dressing.  Squeeze a little lemon juice over and sprinkle liberally with the mint and parsley.

For Slimming World:  3 syns in the whole lot. (2 for oil and 1 for harissa) I managed to serve 5 out of it.