Summer couscous salad
- Preparation and cooking time
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 4
Skip to ingredients
- 250g couscous
- 250ml vegetable stockboiling
- 400g can chickpeasdrained and rinsed
- 1-2 tbsp vegetable or olive oil
- 300g courgettesliced on the slant
- 300g small vine-ripened tomatoeshalved
- 250g pack halloumi cheesethickly sliced and then halved lengthways
For the dressing
- 125ml olive oil
- 3 tbsp lime juice
- 2 large garlic clovesfinely chopped
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh mint
- ½ tsp sugar
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal721
- fat50g
- saturates14g
- carbs47g
- sugars1g
- fibre4g
- protein23g
- salt2.86g
Method
step 1
Tip the couscous into a bowl, pour the boiling stock over and mix well with a fork. Cover with a plate and leave for 4 minutes. Meanwhile, tip all the dressing ingredients into a bowl and mix well. Fluff up the couscous with a fork, stir in the chickpeas and follow with half the dressing. Mix well and pile on to a large serving dish.
step 2
Heat 1 tbsp oil in a large frying pan and fry the courgette slices over a high heat for 2-3 minutes until dark golden brown. Lift out on to kitchen paper. Now put the tomatoes cut-side down into the pan, and cook for another couple of minutes until tinged brown on the underside. Top the couscous with the courgettes and then the tomatoes.
step 3
If the pan is dry, pour in a little more oil and heat it up, then add the halloumi strips and fry for 2-3 minutes, turning them over from time to time, until crisp and sizzled brown. Pile on top of the tomatoes, and drizzle with the remaining dressing. Serve as soon as possible.
