Hello you lovely people, ok, were guna do a lovely little lunch
supper, dinner, its a brilliant way of getting 5 of your 5 fruit and veg a day in one meal
Grilled, blackened, dressed, delicious vegetables in a wrap with couscous, feta cheese it is guna melt in your mouth and be delicious.
And its a real pleasure to make, so first up, over here, look at all of that. Colour colour colour that's what it's all about
So just put your veggies on here. Onions, just peeled, aubergine, peppers, tomatoes, courgettes. Also i want to put a couple of chillis on here
So were going to char these bad boys up. When you kind of caramelise those natural sugars
from within all of these, the flavours start to change and become sumptuous
So your'e adding smokiness, toastiness. If you're wondering what this thing is I'm cooking on by the way
its a cool little kind of ring, which means you can sort of start a barbecue anywhere
These two dudes that I've never met before sent it to me in the post, Richard and Glenn from Clacton.
But of course you could do this in a large frying pan on a high heat, just a dry non stick frying pan. Turn them over you don't have to rush it.
These have been going for about 7/8 minutes, sometimes it might take a little bit longer.
Were using couscous here, wholewheat couscous, that trade up from the white couscous to the wholewheat is brilliant because you get more fibre
and that's definitely one of the things that benefits all of us.
So i'm just going to cover couscous with about 1 cm of boiling water, I'm going to put a pinch of salt in and just put a plate over like that and that will naturally just fluff up
Another way of getting a huge amount of nutrition is nuts. So I'm using hazelnuts and sunflower seeds
just a little handful of each. A nice teaspoon or a pinch of oregano, great for flavour
a little pinch of cumin
just a little kind of hum of savoriness there
dried chilli, fennel seeds, fantastic.
So what I'm doing here is, I'm just toasting up these nuts and seeds and spices to wake up those flavours and essential oils
and its going to make it taste so truly amazing.
So I'll put those into a pestle and mortar, now smash them up. The natural oils will come out
and this becomes a wonderful sprinkle that you can put into your salad or into your wrap
We've got a nice mixture of fine and then coarse
Our couscous is done, we don't have to do anything to that. We've blackened our veggies here, you can feel that that's soft, and the tomatoes are gorgeous. Look how juicy they are
Peppers, onions and the chillis. Pull off the skin, get rid of any kind of blackened bits
and if you just kind of run your finger along them they'll just sort of slide off like that
Same on the peppers we'll pull out the stalk and the seeds of course
Some little charred bits are absolutely delicious, it's flavour there too
Look at the amount of natural juice that's come out the bottom
really nice
kind of like a natural dressing. Then we just hack everything up
I'm sure there's an easier way to do this
I made that quite hard for myself. Use a knife and board, i don't know what I was doing
Basically there's nothing technical about this, you just want to hack up the veggies
Look at the colours
get your veggies in there, dress it with some nice olive oil
about two table spoons, we'll hit it up with some vinegar, works really really well.
About a tablespoon, seasoning. And choose a herb, like mint, really really good, tear it up
and then mix it up and you create this beautiful, seasoned veg
you could put that with sliced potatoes and do a potato al forno
you could put that underneath fish
and roast it, so its a really fantastic preparation of vegetables.
The way to finish this dish is to get a nice little tortilla straight on the barbie
heat up the tortilla, just on one side really.
Lets plate this up, we've got our lovely tortilla just heated up, steaming
beautiful fluffy couscous
it soaks up all those flavours from the beautiful veg
Greek yogurt here and there
Just a little bit of chilli sauce and then the lovely nut and seed sprinkle
really really good
and last but not least, feta. Just a nice little sprinkling of course you can use a knife and fork but i like to just roll it up
and get it in my gob because its quite messy. Sometimes what happens when I do this is get a tea towel put it over your head
so no one can see you, because I'm getting a bit insecure now so, see you later guys