Vegan Butternut Squash and Chickpea Tagine

Achieve all five of your five-a-day with this easy vegan tagine. It's bursting with a variety of delicious vegetables, including courgettes, tomatoes and butternut squash, alongside store cupboard staples such as chickpeas and dried apricots

Method

Based on 4 servings, adjust as needed.

Step 1

Heat the oil in a heavy-based pan, then slowly cook the sliced onions for around 10 mins until starting to caramelise. Stir in the diced butternut squash, diced courgette and tagine spice paste, tomato puree and cook for a further 2 mins. Season with salt and pepper.

Step 2

Add the vegetable stock and bring to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes. Now add the drained chickpeas. Add the apricots and allow to gently simmer for another 15 mins or until all the vegetables are tender and the sauce has reduced.

Step 3

While the tagine is simmering, pour the cous cous into a medium bowl and cover with boiling water, salt and pepper. Add a stock cube for a bit more flavour if you wish. Cover the bowl with a plate or cling film and leave to stand for 10 minutes. Use a fork to fluff the cous cous.

Step 4

If you would like to serve your tagine with a Tahini dressing, simply mix the vegan yogurt, tahini, lemon juice and zest together with a pinch of salt. Scatter over the pomegranate seeds (if using) and serve with the hot tagine and fluffy cous cous.

  • Ingredients
  • Based on 4 servings
  • 100g Vegan Yogurt 1x Alpro Plain No Sugars Soya Dairy Free Yoghurt Alternative 500g
  • 100g Dried Apricots, cut in half 1x Sainsbury's Apricots 200g
  • 2 tbsp Olive Oil 1x Sainsbury's Olive Oil, Extra Virgin 1L
  • 2 Onions, chopped 1x Sainsbury's Onions Loose
  • 4 heaped tbsp Tagine Paste, or half the amount of harissa paste 1x Belazu Tagine Paste 170g
  • 3 tbsp Tahini 1x Al'Fez Middle Eastern Natural Tahini 160g
  • 1 Lemon, juice and zest 1x Sainsbury's Lemons
  • 300g Cous Cous 1x Sainsbury's Cous Cous 500g
  • 2 Large Courgettes, cut into chunks 2x Sainsbury's Courgettes Loose
  • 80g Pomegranate Seeds 1x Sainsbury's Pomegranate 80g
  • 1 Tin Chickpea, rinsed and drained 1x Sainsbury's Chickpeas in Water 400g (240g*)
  • 400g Butternut Squash Slices, diced 1x Sainsbury's Butternut Squash Slices, Inspired to Cook 400g
  • 1 heaped tbsp Tomato Puree 1x Sainsbury's Tomato Puree, Double Concentrate 200g
  • 350ml Vegetable Stock 1x Sainsbury's Stock Cubes, Vegetable 10x10g
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