Quick Beef Cous Cous with Zucchini and Feta

This meal is the outcome of an epic day... getting home late, hungry children and an empty-ish fridge.... We have ALL been there... Yes??

You will need... 1 cup of cous cous, 1 cup of boiling water, 1 small onion, 1 clove garlic, 100g bacon, dash of olive oil, 500g beef mince, 1/2 tsp ground cummin, 1/2 tsp ground corriander, 1 medium zucchini, 1/4 tsp white pepper, small handful of flat leaf parsley and a crumbling of feta...

                                               

SO I always have spices, cous cous, onions and garlic... bacon in the freezer (sorry non meat eaters)... And this is what I generally start with if I don't know exactly what I'm going to cook...

In Hungarian cooking everything starts with onion, olive oil, garlic and capsicum... and usually bacon...Tonight I really wanted to use some middle eastern spices so I omitted the capsicum...

First I peasant chopped the bacon, onion and garlic and fried off in a glug of olive oil... too easy... then added the mince and cooked until brown... and add the spices... and stir....

Then manolin in the zucchini ~ the trick here is fine slices as they cook fast and the zucchini breaks down to almost nothing...

Would you believe thats almost all... cook this mix for another 5 - 10 minutes and season to taste...

While this is cooking you can boil the kettle and make your cous cous ~ 1 cup cous cous : 1 cup boiling water.... cover and then fluff up when water is absorbed....

Throw through the flat leaf parsley and plate up... we had our with butter lettuce from the garden... and crumbles of feta... delish....

I hope you enjoy this as much as we did....

yours,

Honey Lady