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Roasted red pepper, merguez & giant couscous traybake
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By Jean-Luc Moreau, the Technique desk · 28d ago · International · 1 min ·

Roasted red pepper, merguez & giant couscous traybake

15g dillfronds picked

Ingredients · Servings 4
  • 3 red peppers sliced into 2-3cm pieces
  • 6 merguez sausages
  • 1 red onion cut into chunky slices
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 garlic cloves grated
  • 2 tsp ground coriander
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • 4 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 850ml hot chicken stock
  • 350g giant couscous
  • 1 shallot finely sliced into rings
  • 75g feta crumbled
  • 15g dill fronds picked
Method · 1 h 15 min
  1. Heat the oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 8. Put the peppers, merguez and onion in a large roasting tin with high sides (ours was 20 x 30cm). Mix the oil, garlic and ground spices together in a small bowl and season well, then drizzle this over the sausages and peppers. Toss to coat, then roast for 30 mins.
  2. Mix 2 tbsp of the vinegar into the hot stock. Toss the couscous with the sausages and peppers, mixing well, then pour in the stock. Cover and cook in the oven for a final 30 mins.
  3. In the final 10 mins of cooking, mix the shallot with the feta, dill and remaining 2 tbsp vinegar. Remove the traybake from the oven, uncover and top with the shallot and feta mix. Serve directly from the tin.
  • kcal725
  • fat30g
  • saturates11g
  • carbs76g
  • sugars10g
  • fibre9ghigh
  • protein34g
  • salt3.19g

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