Shop HOME Breakfast Lunch Dinner Sweet Treats search September 20, 2013 roast pumpkin & feta couscous salad This weekend we're heading down the coast for a day at the beach. Beach. Sunshine. Sand. Ingredients This flavorful recipe uses basic ingredients and elevates them to create a super-satisfying salad. Here's what you'll need: Pumpkin - You'll use one sugar / pie pumpkin for this recipe. These small pumpkins are much better for cooking than larger jack o' lantern-style pumpkins, which have a tendency to be stringy.
roast pumpkin & feta couscous salad my lovely little lunch box
Ingredients Units Scale Pumpkin 1/2 Kent pumpkin/kabocha squash, peeled and cut into 2 cm or 3/4″ cubes 1 tsp sweet paprika 1 tsp ground coriander 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp garlic powder 1/2 tsp salt 2 tbsp olive oil Couscous 1.5 cups pearl couscous (250 g/9 oz) 1.5 cups chicken or vegetable stock 1 cup water Dressing 4 tbsp olive oil Broccoli Carrots Chickpeas (garbanzo beans): You can use canned or home-cooked chickpeas (or lentils/white beans) to add plenty of plant-based protein to the vegan pumpkin salad. Olive oil: Or another neutral cooking oil, like avocado oil. Pumpkin Couscous Salad is a Mediterranean-inspired pasta salad made with Israeli couscous and feta. The roasted pumpkin and dried apricot provide sweetness, and pine nuts add crunch. The beauty of this Mediterranean couscous salad is that you can make some or all of it ahead of time and serve it at room temperature. Salt & pepper See recipe below for quantities and detailed instructions. How to make pumpkin and couscous salad Add chopped pumpkin to a bowl, then add ground cumin and garlic powder - see Image 1. Mix to coat pumpkin in spices - see Image 2. Add olive oil and mix to coat - see Image 3 - don't wipe out bowl.
Southern In Law Recipe Roasted Pumpkin Couscous Salad
Ingredients - tailored to your taste (plus Dijon mustard and optional red pepper flakes) Couscous: Couscous is a very fast-cooking tiny granular pasta. You can substitute it with approximately 2 cups of cooked orzo, farro, quinoa, rice or pearl couscous (also known as Israeli couscous) if you like. I tried it with orzo and loved it. Pumpkin: While your cubed pumpkin is roasting, prepare the rest of the salad ingredients: toast the pepita seeds, grab your dried cranberries, chop your cilantro leaves, make the super simple lemon-maple dressing. Mix everything together, and voila!—lunch is ready. Related recipe: Golden Turmeric Couscous Tabbouleh Roasted pumpkin salad The roasted pumpkin is sweet and juicy, the feta adds pops of salty creaminess, the pine nuts add a warm, earthy crunch, the freshness from spinach, all lightly dressed with a Honey Balsamic Dressing. You really don't need that much dressing for this salad, just enough to coat the baby spinach. All you have to do is cut the ends off, cut it in half, scoop out the middle, peel it, and chop it! Then I misted it with some EVOO, added a dash of salt and roasted it in the oven for ~45 minutes at 400 degrees. I mean how east is it to roast a pumpkin, right?!
roast pumpkin & feta couscous salad
Ingredients you'll need: All you need to make this couscous salad recipe are 10 simple, healthy ingredients: Pumpkin: I like using japanese pumpkin best for roasting Zucchini Red onion Honey Salt + Pepper INGREDIENT TIPS & SUBSTITUTIONS Pumpkin: Any good roasting pumpkin or butternut squash will work well. I use jap or kent varieties here in Australia. Oil: I use two different types of oil in this recipe - Olive Oil and Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO). Olive oil is great for roasting, and EVOO is perfect for salad dressings.
1. Preheat oven to 200°C/180°C fan-forced. Line a baking tray with baking paper. In a bowl, place pumpkin, spice mix and half the oil; toss to combine. Place pumpkin on prepared tray. Bake 25 minutes or until just tender. 2. Place couscous and sultanas in a heatproof bowl. Instructions. Place chickpeas, couscous, vegetable stock powder, coriander and garlic in a large bowl. Pour over hot water, shake to level out couscous (chickpeas should mostly settle on top). Cover with plate or cling wrap, set aside for 5 minutes. Fluff couscous with fork.
Cumin Roasted Pumpkin, Feta & Couscous Salad with fresh herbs, currants & preserved lemon Gattings
on Nov 17, 2023 3 Comments A mouthwatering sweet balsamic-honey dressing is drizzled on top of this delicious roasted pumpkin salad with feta and walnuts. This fall salad is great as a side dish or as a complete meal on its own. Jump to Recipe Jump to Video This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy. 1 clove garlic, crushed. Handful of raisins. In a saucepan, cook your couscous with the water and garlic salt according to the package directions, fluffing with a fork as you go. Once your couscous has cooked, pour it into a mixing bowl to cool off. In the same pan, add your spinach and crushed garlic and cook over a medium heat until wilted.
