Chorizo Meatballs with Couscous and Apple Salad

Chorizo Meatballs with Couscous and Apple Salad

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 2-3
This dish most recently appeared in My Classic (4 Nights For 2) on Sunday, April 15, 2018.

Alternatively, cook chorizo on BBQ hot plate for 8-10 minutes, until browned and cooked through.


Ingredients

Couscous

  • ¾ cup vegetable stock
  • ¾ cup couscous

Salad

  • 1 baby bok choy
  • 1 apple
  • ½ capsicum
  • Zest of ½ lemon
  • 2 tsp sweet chilli sauce

Chorizo

  • ½ brown onion
  • 1 courgette
  • 250g chorizo grind
  • ¼ tsp salt

Sour Cream

  • ¼ cup sour cream
  • Juice of ½ lemon
  • Pinch of chilli flakes (optional)

Steps

  1. Bring stock to the boil in a small pot on high heat. Once boiling, turn off heat, add couscous and a pinch of salt, stir, cover and leave for 5 minutes. When couscous has finished cooking, fluff up grains with a fork and set aside, covered, to keep warm.
  2. While couscous cooks, prepare salad. Remove end from bok choy and thinly slice; quarter apple, remove core and thinly slice; thinly slice capsicum. Add all to a large bowl, along with lemon zest and sweet chilli sauce and toss to combine.
  3. Finely dice onion and grate courgette. Add both to a large bowl with chorizo and salt. Mix to combine then roll into golf ball-sized balls.
  4. Heat a drizzle of oil in a large fry-pan on medium heat and cook meatballs for 8–10 minutes, turning occasionally, until browned and cooked through.
  5. While meatballs cook, mix sour cream, lemon juice and chilli flakes (if using) together in a small bowl until smooth.
  6. To serve, spoon couscous onto plates and top with chorizo meatballs. Serve apple salad on the side, or on top and spoon over sour cream drizzle.

Nutritional Information

Energy 1894 kj
453 kcal
Protein 30.3g
Carbohydrate 45.3g
Fat 16.6g