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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!
Serves: 4
Time to make: 15 mins
Hands-on time: 10 mins
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
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Instructions
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.
Nutrition Info (per serve)
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Calories 546cal
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Kilojoules 2294kJ
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Protein 35.6g
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Total fat 19.4g
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–Saturated fat 3.4g
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Carbohydrates 51.3g
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–Sugars 9.4g
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Dietary fibre 10.8g
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Sodium 271mg
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Calcium 223mg
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Iron 5.7mg
Note: This nutrition analysis is a guide only. Nutrition composition will vary depending on the exact ingredients used. See our guides on your optimal daily nutrition intake, and supermarket shopping.
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