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Couscous Paella

This dish has all the paella flavours but only takes 5 minutes. That’s some seriously fast cooking! By using couscous instead of rice, we can eliminate most of the hassle involved in making a real paella and simplify the whole dish to a couple of easy steps.

Ingredients

  • ¼ red pepper, cut into strips

  • Small handful of prawns

  • Small handful of peas

  • ½ chicken stock cube

  • Pinch of turmeric

  • Small handful of couscous

  • Salt & pepper

  • Olive oil

Recipe

Start by pan frying the pepper in a splash of olive oil over a medium heat. After a couple of minutes add the prawns, peas, stock cube, turmeric and a small splash of water (about 25ml). Simmer for a couple of minutes until the peas are cooked and half the water has evaporated. Next, remove from the heat, season and stir in the couscous. Leave for a minute and it will plump up to create this amazing couscous paella.