Greek Falafel Mezze Plates with Hummus, Couscous & Olives

Greek Falafel Mezze Plates with Hummus, Couscous & Olives

Ready in 30 minutes • Serves 4
This dish most recently appeared in My Family (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, April 26, 2020.
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Ingredients

Couscous

  • 1 1/4 cups vegetable stock
  • 240g couscous

Falafel

  • 500g falafel mix

Garnishes

  • 1/2 cos lettuce, roughly chopped
  • 2 tomatoes, diced
  • 1/2 telegraph cucumber, thinly sliced
  • 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
  • 30g olives
  • 200g hummus
  • 150g yoghurt

Steps

  1. Cook couscous. Bring stock to the boil in a medium pot on high heat. Once boiling turn off heat, add couscous and 1/2 tsp salt, stir, cover and leave for 5 minutes.
  2. Prep garnishes. Prep lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and onion and set aside.
  3. Cook falafel. Heat a drizzle of oil in a non-stick fry-pan on medium-high heat. Add falafel mix to pan and break up with a wooden spoon. Cook falafel for 6-8 minutes, until mixture is golden and crumbly. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
  4. Finish couscous. Fluff couscous with a fork and season to taste with salt and pepper.
  5. Serve couscous and falafel topped with garnishes.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2697 kj
645 kcal
Protein 20.4g
Carbohydrate 61.3g
Fat 33.9g