This salad is delicious on its own, or as a side dish to fish, lamb shoulder or brisket! And is a great way to use up any sad veggies at the end of the week. It can be made vegetarian if you omit the bone broth – however if you do want to use bone broth, this is a great meal to incorporate broth in your diet as the couscous absorbs it all up.

Couscous is an incredibly messy meal (sorry) so its a great one to eat outside if you aren’t prepared for couscous to fly everywhere! For this reason, for younger children I like to mash it with some of the vegetables so it sticks together a bit more and doesn’t fly around so much.

If you don’t have pearl couscous you can swap it for a regular couscous, amaranth, buckwheat or rice. For babies under 12 months, ensure you are using an Israeli style couscous, which is smaller. Some types of pearl couscous can be quite large and could be a choking risk.

For puree, you can either:
– puree up the couscous, veg and yoghurt together with a splash of water.
– omit the couscous for grain/gluten free and just blitz the veg and yoghurt together with some bone broth or water
– you can also add any protein/iron-rich foods to the meal like tinned mackeral, sardines, salmon, chicken, lamb etc.

For the BLW I would recommend when roasting the veg, to leave some a bit larger (about the width of two adult fingers) so your baby can easily grasp them. You can then serve alongside any protein/iron-rich foods to the meal like tinned mackeral, sardines, salmon, chicken, lamb etc.

This Salad will keep in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Does not freeze well.