We're celebrating veggie night with this Middle Eastern-inspired couscous! Packed with oven-roasted falafel, blistered tomatoes, briny olives, feta and garlic-tossed carrots, this dish has checked off every flavour box!
Produced in a facility that processes milk, sesame, eggs, fish, shellfish, crustaceans, mustard, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean and sulphites.
8 unit(s)
Falafel
½ cup
Couscous
(Contains Wheat)
30 g
Mixed Olives
(Contains Sulphites)
227 g
Baby Tomatoes
1 unit(s)
Garlic, cloves
¼ cup
Feta Cheese, crumbled
(Contains Milk)
56 g
Carrot, julienned
1 unit(s)
Lemon
7 g
Cilantro
4 tbsp
Spicy Mayo
(Contains Egg, Mustard)
3 unit(s)
Radish
2 tbsp
Unsalted Butter*
(Contains Milk)
½ tsp
Sugar*
4.5 tbsp
Oil*
¼ tsp
Salt*
0.13 tsp
Pepper*
Before starting, preheat the oven to 450°F. Wash and dry all produce. Toss falafel with 1 1/2 tbsp (3 tbsp) oil on an unlined baking sheet. Roast in the middle of the oven, flipping halfway through, until golden-brown, 8-10 min.
Cut radishes into 1/4-inch rounds. Roughly chop cilantro. Peel, then mince or grate garlic. Drain, then roughly chop olives. Zest, then juice half the lemon (whole lemon for 4 ppl). Cut any remaining lemon into wedges.
Meanwhile, whisk together garlic, 2 tbsp (4 tbsp) oil, 1/2 tbsp (1 tbsp) lemon juice and 1/2 tsp (1 tsp) sugar in a large bowl.Add carrots, radishes and half the cilantro. Season with salt and pepper, then toss to coat. Set aside.
Add 2/3 cup (1 1/3 cups) water and 1/8 tsp (1/4 tsp) salt to a small pot. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.Once boiling, remove from heat, then add couscous. Stir to combine.Cover and let stand, 5 min.When couscous is tender, fluff with a fork.
Heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat.When hot, add tomatoes and 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) oil. Season with salt and pepper.Cook, stirring often, until tomatoes blister and soften, 3-4 min. Set aside.
Add tomatoes, olives, 1/4 tsp (1/2 tsp) lemon zest, 2 tbsp (4 tbsp) butter and half the feta to the pot with couscous. Toss to combine.Divide couscous between plates.Top with falafel, then marinated veggies.Sprinkle remaining cilantro and remaining feta over top.Drizzle spicy mayo over top.Squeeze a lemon wedge over top, if desired.