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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