Super Healthy Couscous Salad
- Simple
- 0:40 m
- 19 ingredients
If you’re looking for a healthy, tasty, easy plant-based salad recipe - this is the one for you. You can either eat it all at once with a group of friends or you can pop it in Tupperware & eat it cold for lunch for the next couple of days! It would make a great plant-based summer side dish or a quick healthy veggie lunch. Easy peasy!
Serves: 4
Ingredients
For the roasted vegetables
- ½ butternut squash - peeled, cubed
- 120g cherry tomatoes - halved
- 1 courgette - cut into chunks
- 120g asparagus - cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 large red onion
- 5 garlic cloves
- olive oil - a good glug, approx. 60ml
- 1 tsp pepper
- chilli flakes to taste
- 2 tsp salt
For the cold vegetables
- 120g pitted olives - halved
- 120g cucumbers - cut into 1 inch chunks
- 20g basil - chopped
- 20g parsley - finely chopped
- Juice of 1 lemon
- couscous - enough for 4-6 people
- 60g toasted pine nuts
- 60g toasted sesame seeds
To serve
- rocket
- balsamic glaze
Before you start
Preheat oven to 200°C | Baking tray | Mixing bowl
Step 1
First, roast the veggies
- Put all the ‘roasting’ ingredients on a baking tray and bake them for 30 minutes at 200℃
- Take the tray out of the oven, carefully remove the garlic then remove the skins from the cloves
Ingredients
- ½ butternut squash - peeled
- cubed
- 120g cherry tomatoes - halved
- 1 courgette - cut into chunks
- 120g asparagus - cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 large red onion
- 5 garlic cloves
- olive oil - a good glug
- approx. 60ml
- 1 tsp pepper
- chilli flakes to taste
- 2 tsp salt
Step 2
Build the salad and serve
- Put all the roasted vegetables in the large bowl that has your cooked couscous in it
- Throw in the roast garlic & mix the couscous & roast vegetables together
- Add the cold ingredients & stir them into the bowl
- Serve immediately with rocket & balsamic glaze. BOSH!
Ingredients
- 120g pitted olives - halved
- 120g cucumbers - cut into 1 inch chunks
- 20g basil - chopped
- 20g parsley - finely chopped
- Juice of 1 lemon
- couscous - enough for 4-6 people
- rocket
- balsamic glaze
- 60g toasted pine nuts
- 60g toasted sesame seeds