Crispy Butter Bean & Houmous Bowl
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Total: 20 mins
A quick and easy dinner of fluffy couscous topped with cool cubes of cucumber and tomato, crispy spiced butter beans, a big dollop of turmeric houmous and fresh mint.
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713 kcal
(per portion)
Ingredients you'll need
  • 400g tin of butter beans
  • 100g turmeric houmous
  • 150g wholewheat couscous
  • 2 vine tomatoes
  • 1 ridged cucumber
  • A handful of mint, leaves only
  • 1 tsp chilli spice mix
From your kitchen
  • 200ml boiling water
  • Sea salt
  • Freshly ground pepper
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
You'll need
  • Heatproof bowl
  • Frying pan or wok
Step by step this way
  • 1.

    Fill and boil your kettle. Pour the couscous into a heatproof bowl. Add a good pinch of salt and pepper. Pour in 200ml hot water from the kettle and cover the bowl with a plate. Set aside to soak.

  • 2.

    Drain and rinse the butter beans. Warm a frying pan or wok on a medium-high heat for2 mins. When warm, pour in 2 tbsp olive oil. Carefully add the butter beans and fry for 5 mins, shaking the pan regularly till the beans are golden and crisp. Stir in 1 tsp chilli spice mix and fry for 1 min, then tip out into a bowl.

  • 3.

    While the butter beans are frying, roughly chop the tomatoes. Peel most of the skin from the cucumber – it should look stripy. Roughly chop the cucumber. Finely chop the mint leaves.

  • 4.

    Fluff the couscous with a fork and stir through 1 tbsp olive oil through. Divide it between a couple of bowls and top with the chopped cucumber and tomatoes. Add a dollop of turmeric hummus to each bowl and top with spiced butter beans and chopped mint to serve.

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