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Chickpea couscous with horseradish yoghurt and smoked salmon

This quick and healthy couscous salad with salmon recipe is full of iron, protein and fibre, and tastes great too!

  • Hands-on time: 10 mins
  • Time to make: 15 mins
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 cup wholegrain couscous
  • 1 vegetable stock cube
  • 1 cup fresh or frozen green peas
  • 1 lemon
  • 400g can no-added-salt chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  • 50g snow or sugar snap peas
  • 2 Lebanese cucumbers, diced
  • ½ small fennel, thinly sliced
  • ¼ cup pistachio kernels, roughly chopped
  • 2 tablespoons pumpkin seeds
  • ¹⁄³ cup chopped fresh dill, plus extra, to garnish
  • handful of mint leaves, torn
  • 100g baby spinach
  • ½ cup plain low-fat yoghurt
  • 2 tablespoons horseradish
  • 300g hot smoked salmon
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Place couscous in a heatproof bowl. Dissolve stock cube in 1 cup of boiling water, then pour over couscous. Cover and stand for 5 minutes. Pour boiling water over peas and set aside for 5 minutes.

    2 Fluff the couscous with a fork, then drizzle with olive oil, lemon juice and season with pepper.

    3 Drain the peas and add to the couscous along with chickpeas, snow peas, cucumber, pistachios, pumpkin seeds, dill, mint and spinach. Place in a serving bowl. Mix together the yoghurt and the horseradish and drizzle over salad. Flake salmon over the top, garnish with extra dill fronds.

     

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