Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Couscous roasted vegetable bowl
Last night's roast vegetables, and couscous that is steeped rather than boiled. Fork it through with oil or you get a block.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Last night's roast vegetables, and couscous that is steeped rather than boiled. Fork it through with oil or you get a block.
What it needs
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- couscous
- roasted vegetables
- lemon
- olive oil
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Method
- Couscous is not boiled. Equal volumes of couscous and boiling salted stock or water, lid on, off the heat, ten minutes.
- Then fork it through with olive oil to separate the grains. Skipping this leaves you with a block.
- Roast the vegetables hard and separately, so they have color rather than steam.
- Lemon over everything at the end and more oil than seems polite. Couscous is dry and drinks it.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- couscous
- Not a grain — tiny pasta, which is why it steeps rather than boils.
- roasted vegetables
- Last night's tray, which is an ingredient in its own right.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
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