Stealthy Xanthous Couscous

March 25, 2014

This dish's monochromatic tones belie its varied textures too flavours. Once your eyes adjust to the yellowish you lot powerfulness give away turmeric-tinted couscous, soft chickpeas, golden almond flakes, dried apricot gems too sliced savoury sausage. You'd select to dig inwards for a gustation to selection upward the garlic, paprika too lemon.

Unusually, my characteristic need-to-use-this-up division of the black was a jolt of homemade vegetable stock. But I had almost everything else for Veggie num num's recipe inwards the pantry too the herb garden likewise - I needed solely to jot the chickpeas too sausages onto my shopping list. With a niggling preparatory criterion too chopping this comes together real easily; without it there's a gamble you'll larn caught alongside spices and/or garlic burning inwards a frypan piece you lot mince that concluding clove too drain the chickpeas. (Ahem.)

There's non a lot of fresh vegetable affair hither thus I'd recommend a large greenish side salad earlier calling this a meal. Alternatively you lot could interruption upward the shades of yellowish past times tossing inwards approximately spinach, capsicum too tomato.

Stealthy yellowish couscous
(slightly adapted from Veggie num num)

1 1/2 cups couscous
ii cups vegetable stock
ii cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon cardamom
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
ii x 400g cans chickpeas, drained (could hold out reduced to 1)
1/4 loving cup dried apricots, diced
1/4 loving cup fresh parsley, roughly chopped (I'd run to a greater extent than side past times side time)
1 wedge preserved lemon, flesh removed too pare finely chopped
1 lemon, zest & juice
1/4 loving cup flaked almonds
300g veg*n sausages
3 tablespoons olive oil
common salt too pepper

Place the couscous inwards a large heatproof bowl. Pour the stock into a modest saucepan on medium heat. When the stock is hot, pour three-quarters of it over the couscous too stir it all a niggling alongside a fork. The couscous should absorb the liquid is only a few minutes.

Make certain all the ingredients are gear upward to go: mince the garlic, mensurate out the spices, drain the chickpeas, die the apricots, parsley too preserved lemon, zest too juice the fresh lemon.

Dry-roast the almonds inwards a large frypan, beingness careful non to burn downward them. When they're golden too fragrant, laid them aside inwards a bowl thus provide the frypan to the heat.

Fry the sausages until they're crisp too golden, thus take away them from the pan too piece them diagonally.

Return the pan to a lower heat, too warm 1 tablespoon of the olive crude oil inwards it. Add the spices too gear upward them for nearly a minute. Add the garlic too cook, stirring, for approximately other minute. Add the chickpeas too remaining stock to the pan, bringing it to the boil too evaporating off approximately of the liquid. Add the apricots too preserved lemon to the pan, thus afterwards approximately other span of minutes stir through the sausage slices. Remove it all from the rut too laid it aside a moment.

Fluff upward the couscous alongside a fork. Pour inwards the lemon juice too remaining olive crude oil too stir it through. Fold inwards the lemon zest, parsley too almonds. Sprinkle over lots of common salt too pepper. Fold inwards the sausage too chickpea mixture too serve.