I love using couscous because it cooks quickly, takes on all sorts of flavored oils or herbs you toss with, and can be served hot, warm , room temp, or cold in salads!<\/p>\n
I had some plain cooked couscous in my fridge one day and decided to make a salad that was light, healthy and fresh! Hummm, I thought. How about a Touboli inspired dish? Yes, it will go great with my grilled chicken, (or was it steak?), no matter.<\/p>\n
Off to my pantry and fridge I went to see what was on hand and this is what I came up with! A DELICIOUS, DELIGHT!!<\/p>\n
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Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 1\/2 cup cooked couscous (see below) or <\/strong>1 box Parmesan flavored couscous cooked and cooled<\/p>\n 1 can Garbanzo beans aka Chick Peas, drained and rinsed<\/p>\n 1 small red bell pepper, chopped<\/p>\n 1\/2 small red onion, chopped,\u00a0 or\u00a0 use green onions,<\/p>\n 1 English cucumber, peeled, seeded and chopped<\/p>\n 1 Tomato chopped, I like Grape Tomatoes, not so juicy! (Just eye ball what a large tomato would yield)<\/p>\n 1\/2 cup cilantro chopped, (or a mixture of cilantro, parsley and basil, Even better!), Like mint? add it too!<\/p>\n 1\/2 cup crumbled Feta cheese, ( I like the creamy Bulgarian Feta but its more difficult to find, so Greek is fine)<\/p>\n 1\/4 cup Parmesan cheese IF not using flavored box<\/p>\n Dressing:<\/strong><\/p>\n Salt & Pepper<\/p>\n 1\/4 cup olive oil<\/p>\n zest of 1 lime PLUS juice of 2 – 3 limes<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1: Mix everything in a large salad bowl up to the dressing.<\/p>\n 2: Whisk dressing ingredients together in a bowl or shake in a jar. Add salt and pepper to taste. ( taste the salad too, Feta and Parm. cheese is salty)<\/p>\n 3: Pour dressing over salad, toss, and taste to see if there is enough S & P<\/p>\n 4: Place in fridge until serving and toss again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cooking Couscous;<\/strong><\/p>\n 1: mix 1 tsp chicken bullion and 2\/3 cup water in a med. size glass bowl or dish<\/p>\n 2: Microwave until boiling<\/p>\n 3: Quickly add 1\/2 cup dry couscous into boiling water, stir and cover tightly with plastic wrap<\/p>\n 4: Let sit in Microwave oven about 10 min., until all water is absorbed. Fluff with fork and chill a bit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love using couscous because it cooks quickly, takes on all sorts of flavored oils or herbs you toss with, and can be served hot, warm , room temp, or cold in salads! I had some plain cooked couscous in my fridge one day and decided to make a salad that was light, healthy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-381","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recipes.theskinnyonscv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recipes.theskinnyonscv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recipes.theskinnyonscv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recipes.theskinnyonscv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recipes.theskinnyonscv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.recipes.theskinnyonscv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/www.recipes.theskinnyonscv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381\/revisions\/388"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recipes.theskinnyonscv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recipes.theskinnyonscv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}