Salad Recipes

Roasted veg & couscous salad

Throw together a filling and fragrant couscous salad for a vegetarian lunchbox meal, or double it for a buffet

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

Directions

• STEP 1

  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.

• STEP 2

  Put couscous into a large bowl, pour over the stock, cover, then set aside for 10 mins. Fluff up with a fork.

• STEP 3

  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.