Photo: Ernest Porzi
Vegetable couscous with chickpeas & preserved lemons
20 ingredients
40 min + 25 min
Serves 8
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
1194
Calories
54g
Protein
46g
Fat
149g
Carbs
Counts 13 of 17 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 13 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Couscous | 1 cup cooked (157g) | 176 |
| Chicken | 100g cooked | 165 |
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Chickpea | 1/2 cup canned (120g) drained | 134 |
| Vegetable | 1 tbsp (14g) | 120 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Parsnip | 1/2 cup (78g) | 55 |
| Red Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Dried Fig | 1 medium (50g) | 37 |
| Carrot | 1 medium (61g) | 25 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Harissa | not in our table | 0 |
| Pumpkin | not in our table | 0 |
| Peppermint | not in our table | 0 |
| Coriander | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 2l vegetable or chicken stock
- 3 tbsp harissa , homemade (see recipe below) or shop bought
- 3 carrots , chopped
- 3 large parsnips , chopped
- 2 red onions , cut into wedges through the root
- 2 large potatoes , chopped into chunks
- ½ butternut squash , chopped into chunks
- 4 leeks , sliced into rings
- 12 dried figs , halved
- 2 preserved lemons , homemade (see recipe below) or bought, rinsed, pulp scooped out and finely sliced
- small bunch mint , chopped
- 200g couscous
- 400g can chickpeas
- 25g butter
- 1 red onion , finely diced
- 3 spring onions , sliced
- 2 tbsp harissa
- 50ml olive oil
- juice 1 lemon
- bunch coriander , roughly chopped
Directions
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By bbcgoodfood ·
Recipe sourced from
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