French
Couscous aux Legumes (Vegetable Couscous)
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Couscous aux Legumes (Vegetable Couscous) is French home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the olive oil in a large pot and cook the onion and garlic over medium heat for 3 minutes, then stir in the cumin, coriander and turmeric and cook for 1 minute, until fragrant.
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Add the carrots, turnips, chickpeas, tomatoes and 3 cups of the vegetable broth, bring to a boil, then lower to a simmer, cover, and cook for 20 minutes.
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Add the zucchini and simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes more, until all the vegetables are tender, then season with the salt and pepper.
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Meanwhile, bring the remaining 1 cup of broth to a boil, pour it over the couscous in a heatproof bowl, cover, and let it stand for 5 minutes, then fluff with a fork.
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Mound the couscous on a platter and spoon the vegetables, chickpeas and plenty of broth over the top.
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Scatter the cilantro over everything before bringing it to the table; the vegetables and chickpeas make this a complete meatless plate.
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Serve it with
A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Couscous aux Legumes (Vegetable Couscous), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Couscous aux Legumes (Vegetable Couscous) carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 380 kcal
- Protein
- 13 g
- Carbs
- 70 g
- Fat
- 5 g
- Fiber
- 9 g
- Sugar
- 5 g
- Sodium
- 610 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Couscous aux Legumes (Vegetable Couscous) takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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