Couscous with red lentils and roasted carrots

This dish has everything I want from an easy weekday dish. It's simple, quick, cheap, tasty, fairly light and on top of it all, it's vegan! Those are the things I tend to appreciate most after a long day at work. Cooking is a relaxing method for me, but sometimes I just need to get the food ready quicker with less hassle. This week this was my Monday evening dinner and here's how I made it.

Ingredients

6 medium carrots

1+1 tbsp olive oil

3 tbsp sunflower seeds

3 tbsp pumpkin seeds

1 cup couscous

1 vegetable stock cube

½ cup red lentils

2 shallots

3 garlic cloves

1-2 tsp ras el hanout

Salt and pepper to taste

Method

Cut the carrots into about 2cm long thin sticks, brush them with olive oil and roast in the oven until soft.

Toast the seeds in the oven.

Cook the couscous in water with the vegetable stock cube and also cook the lentils separately.

Chop the shallots and garlic cloves finely and start cooking them in olive oil.

Once they are softened, add the lentils, spices, couscous, seeds and carrots.

Serve warm as a main or a side. This isn't too bad cold either.

Your VegHog