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Thursday 22 December 2011

Healthy Recipe: Roasted Vegetable Couscous Salad

A delicious pasta dish which you can enjoy on your fitness journey. It is eaten in the North African region with countries like Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia regarding it as a staple food.


You will need:

  • 125g of Baby Tomatoes
  • 1/2 a Red Pepper (Sliced)
  • 1/2 an Onion (Sliced)
  • 70g of Couscous
  • 125ml of Water
  • Freshly Ground Pepper
  • 1 Stock Cube 
For the Dressing, you will need:
  • 28ml of Extra Virgin Oil
  • 1/4 tsp of Cayenne Pepper
  • 1/2 tbsp of Ground Cumin
  • 1/2 tbsp of Tomato Puree
  • Juice of 1/2 a Lime
Step 1
Roast the vegetables for about 40 minutes on a high temperature.

Step 2
Place Couscous in a bowl, add stock and pepper and stir with fork and leave for it 5 minutes. 

Step 3
Mix all the ingredients for the dressing and place them in a serving jug.

Step 4
Mix together the Couscous and roasted vegetables.

Step 5
Lightly drizzle dressing on top and serve the remainder separately.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the roasted vegetable couscous salad recipe. It is interesting that this dish is a staple is some countries.

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