How to cook fish couscous
How to cook fish couscous
Serves 4
Calories: 473 kcal per portion
Ingredients
- 400 g monkfish or cod fillet
- 370 g couscous
- 40 g butter
- 850 ml water
- 2 chicken or fish stock cubes
- 60 ml water
- 4 carrots
- 2 turnips
- 2 fennel bulbs
- 1 onion
- 3 teaspoons tomato purée
- 2 teaspoons Ras el hanout spice mix
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Cooking oil
- Small bunch of flat-leafed parsley
- Salt and pepper
Method
- Peel and finely chop the onion
- Use one stock cube to make 350 ml of stock
- Sweat the chopped onion in a large frying pan with a dash of cooking oil
- Add the Ras el hanout and tomato purée to 100 ml of the stock. Simmer for 5 minutes
- Add another 250ml of stock. Bring to the boil
- Meanwhile, peel and cube the carrots and turnips. Clean and finely chop the fennel
- Add the carrots to the stock and cook for 5 minutes. Add the turnips and fennel. Continue cooking for 10 minutes
- Put the couscous in a bowl. Mix in the olive oil and season with salt and pepper
- Use the second stock cube to make 500 ml of stock. Bring to the boil and pour over the couscous
- Cover and leave to rest for around 10 minutes then fluff the couscous with a fork and stir in the melted butter. Leave covered to keep warm
- Cut the fish into small pieces and cook it in the stock with the vegetables
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