Pumpkin couscous salad
- 09.03.2017
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Recipe «Pumpkin couscous salad» presented in category Recipes / Salads, to prepare this dish you will need no more 40 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 1/2 tsp each sweet paprika and smoked paprika, 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp ground coriander, 3 cloves garlic, crushed, 140ml olive oil , 1.5kg jap pumpkin, skin washed, seeded, 1 golden nugget pumpkin, skin washed, halved, seeded, 180g haloumi, cut into thin slices , 500g moghrabieh, 1 1/2 tbsp white wine vinegar, 1 wedge preserved lemon, flesh discarded, finely chopped, 1 cup tightly packed small mint leaves, 100g kalamata olives.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 tsp each sweet paprika and smoked paprika
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 140ml olive oil
- 1.5kg jap pumpkin, skin washed, seeded
- 1 golden nugget pumpkin, skin washed, halved, seeded
- 180g haloumi, cut into thin slices
- 500g moghrabieh
- 1 1/2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 wedge preserved lemon, flesh discarded, finely chopped
- 1 cup tightly packed small mint leaves
- 100g kalamata olives
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C. Combine spices, garlic, 1/4 cup oil and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a bowl. Cut pumpkins into 12 wedges each and place in a roasting pan. Drizzle with spice mixture then, using your hands, turn to coat evenly. Scatter with haloumi then bake for 40 minutes or until pumpkin is tender.
- Meanwhile, cook moghrabieh in a saucepan of boiling salted water for 20 minutes or until al dente. Drain and return to pan then toss with 1 tablespoon oil and season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Whisk together remaining 1/4 cup oil, vinegar and lemon. Season to taste.
- Spoon moghrabieh on to a platter. Top with pumpkin mixture, mint and olives then drizzle with dressing. Serve.