Easy Recipe: Healthy Couscous Salad
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Recipe type: Healthy Couscous Salad
Cuisine: Salad
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Serves: 2
 
This hearty Israeli Couscous salad can be served as a side or main dish.
Ingredients
  • 2 cups organic Israeli couscous (Bob's Red Mill TriColor Pearl Couscous)
  • 1 cup garbanzo beans
  • ¼ cup parsley
  • 3 tbsp. garlic grapeseed oil
  • 1 cup sliced tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • *Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Cook Israeli couscous per directions (typically - boil 2½ cups of water, add 2 cups couscous and simmer for 10 minutes)
  2. Let couscous cool for 10 minutes
  3. Sauté garbanzo beans with 1 tbsp. of grapeseed oil on stove-top for 5 minutes (while couscous is cooking)
  4. Mix 2 tbsp. garlic grapeseed oil and lemon juice in couscous
  5. Add garbanzo beans, tomatoes, parsley and mix
  6. Add salt and pepper to taste
  7. Garnish with parsley
Notes
This serves as two side dishes or one big meal.
Recipe by Pretty Wellness at https://prettywellness.com/easy-recipe-healthy-couscous-salad/