📋 Simple Couscous Salad

This simple couscous salad is a delicious and easy to make salad that's perfect as a quick healthy meal or as an accompaniment to any dinner!

Course Dinner, Lunch, Side Dish

Cuisine Mediterranean

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 0

Total Time 20

Servings

Calories 226kcal

Author Neil

Equipment

Ingredients

Salad Ingredients: -

250 g couscous
350 ml vegetable stock
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tomatoes diced.
200 g cucumber diced.
½ Red Pepper diced.
4 spring onions diced.
250 g frozen sweetcorn defrosted.

Lemon Dressing Ingredients: -

4 tablespoon lemon juice freshly squeezed.
3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 clove garlic crushed.
Freshly Ground Salt and Black Pepper
Freshly Chopped Coriander for decoration

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

For The Couscous Salad: -

Place the couscous in a large bowl add the vegetable stock and olive oil then stir. Cover the bowl and leave to stand for about 5 minutes until all the stock has been absorbed.
After about 5 minutes, if the couscous has softened, fluff it up with a fork and allow it to cool.
Combine couscous, tomato, cucumber, pepper, spring onion and sweetcorn together in the bowl.

Lemon Dressing: -

Make the lemon dressing by combining all the ingredients into a small bowl, whisking together and then season to taste.
Pour the dressing over the couscous salad, stir to combine. Again, season to taste. Scatter over the coriander.

Notes

Make sure you stir the couscous salad well before serving to refresh the lemon flavours. You may also need to add a little more lemon juice if salad has been in the fridge for a while.

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