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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal711
  • fat39g
  • saturates19g
  • carbs52g
  • sugars0g
  • fibre5g
  • protein40g
  • salt5.12g
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Method

  • step 1

    Firstly, put the kettle on then cut broccoli into florets and thickly slice stalk. Pour boiling water into a steamer, steam broccoli for 6 mins, add the peas and steam for 2 mins more.

  • step 2

    Meanwhile, mix the couscous with the spices in a bowl, pour over the hot stock, then cover and leave to stand for 5 mins.

  • step 3

    Heat a non-stick frying pan or griddle pan. Cut halloumi into 6-8 slices and cook quickly on each side for 2 mins until lightly tinged brown.

  • step 4

    Mix vegetables and tomatoes into couscous, fork in the lemon juice, oil and coriander. Pile onto plates and top with halloumi.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2005

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A star rating of 4.4 out of 5.43 ratings

jackiestav2302

question

What are the spices used or is it just preference?

CJFTW

tip

Made the couscous and prepped the veg in advance with the dressing. Then fried up the halloumi just before serving. The mix of cold and hot was tasty and I think could make this easier to serve if you need to stage your prep times.

CJFTW

Made it almost exactly as written with the exception of using a pack of tenderstem as that's what I had, and also reduced the cinnamon just slightly. I used a low sodium stock cube dissolved in the 300 ml of water for the stock, and I think that worked well for flavour. The halloumi brought in the…

Soulan

Good base recipe to play around with, the spice mix worked well. I used frozen peas and lime instead of lemon, will try with quinoa next and different vegs. The pesto sounds good too..

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Zoe Mallam

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Really delicious - impressed my very carnivorous partner. Adding stock to the couscous was perfect.

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