Salted Cashew Vegan Couscous Salad

5 from 2 votes

Salted Cashew Vegan Couscous Salad

Wanted to try a couscous salad that I have been doing for a while and see if I could get it sub 50p. Well, it worked out at 71p for the dish in the picture, and there is plenty there for two, so 35p each, billy bargain 🙂

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Total Time20

Course: Dinner, Lunch, Main Course, Salad

Servings:

Calories: 498kcal

Author: Thrifty Lesley

Cost: 35p

Equipment

mixing bowl
small sharp knife
chopping board

Ingredients

125 g couscous £1.05/500g 26p
2 tblsp oil £1.15/1 litre, 4p
½ juice and zest of lemon 20p each, 5p
60 g peas 73p/kg, 4p
40 g carrot grated, 43p/kg, 2p
sprig mint, basil and coriander if you have them
30 g salted cashews 1.70/200g, 25p
¼ onion sliced very fine, 70p/kg, 5p

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Put the couscous in a bowl and add the zest and juice of the lemon, the oil and 125ml water.
Add the carrot. Cook the peas (1 min in the microwave from frozen will do it) and add to the couscous.
Chop the herbs very finely and add.
Mix in the cashews.
Leave all to stand for 10 minutes or so.
Taste and add salt and pepper as needed.

Notes

Half of this will be my lunch tomorrow. I wanted to make the recipe as reproducable as possible, otherwise I would have added some grated courgette as we have lots of them at the moment, and rummaged around in the fridge more to see what I could throw in.

Variations

You can add a great many other vegetables to this, depending on what you have. Cooked peppers from a jar, fine sliced radishes, fine chopped cucumber, tomato, raw or cooked broccoli or cauliflower. Or how about some roasted courgette and carrot, the red is a pepper that was in the fridge, have a look to see what you have in the fridge and cupboard and put in anything that you like in a combination, it will be yummy!

This features in Meal Plan 1, a complete 7 day plan for 2 adults. Contains 3 meals a day, plus snacks , all recipes and a shopping list

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