Lunchbox recipe for 4 people, takes only 40 mins; recipe has couscous, vegetable stock, chickpea, olive oil, courgette, tomato, halloumi cheese, olive oil, lime juice, garlic clove, mint and sugar.
Summer couscous salad
Course: Lunchbox
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
- Olive Oil: 1-2 tbsp vegetable or olive oil
- Vegetable Stock: 250ml vegetable stock, boiling
- Tomato: 300g small vine-ripened tomatoes, halved
- Couscous: 250g couscous
- Chickpea: 400g can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- Courgette: 300g courgette, sliced on the slant
- Halloumi Cheese: 250g pack halloumi cheese, thickly sliced and then halved lengthways
- Lime Juice: 3 tbsp lime juice
- Mint: 2 tbsp chopped fresh mint
- Sugar: 1/2 tsp sugar
Directions
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
