Friday, 8 August 2014

couscous salad so simple and it takes 10 mins tops

1 cup couscous
1 1/4 cup water or stock chicken,beef,vegtable

1/2 cup chopped cucumber
1/2 cup grape tomatoes cut in half
1/4 red onion finely chopped
1/4 cup red and yellow pepper chopped
zest 1/2 lemon
juice 1/2 lemon
4 leaves of fresh basil finely chopped
1/2 cup feta cheese
4 tbsp balsamic vinegar
4 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp honey
pinch salt and pepper

bring stock to a full boil and stir in couscous turn heat to low for 3 mins
remove from heat, run a fork through the couscous to flake it apart.
put into a boil and add in add veggies, zest,basil,salt,pepper
in a small bowl mix vinegar,oil,lemon juice and honey together and drizzle over warm couscous
add feta cheese mix and refrigerate.
after it is chilled I sometimes drizzle a little more balsamic and olive oil over it.
Again this is a recipe I have to double or triple because my kids love it.

You can put any kind of raw or cooked veggies in you want, you can change up the flavour profile depending what you are serving it with
for example:
going a little Mexican
chop up an avocado
1 roasted red pepper chopped
red onion
roasted corn
jalapeno pepper finely chopped
cumin
coriander
cilantro
tomato
drizzle with olive oil

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