This salad recipe for couscous salad is quick to make and uses sweet chilli sauce and sultanas. If looking for couscous recipes, this couscous salad will be ideal.
Ingredients – 1 portion
- 50g couscous
- 1 tsp sweet chilli sauce
- 10g sultanas
- 5g flaked almonds
- 15g dried apricots
- Coriander leaves to garnish
- Sea salt / pepper to taste
Method
- Prepare the couscous.
- Pre-heat the grill.
- Spread the almonds on a baking tray. Place under the grill and toast the almonds until golden brown.
- Chop the apricots into about 0.5cm dice.
- Pick the coriander leaves from the stalks.
- Mix everything together in a clean bowl and season the couscous salad to taste.
This couscous salad makes a great snack at any time of the day.
Other recipes using couscous include baked stuffed tomatoes.
Couscous – Did you know?
Couscous was voted as the third favourite dish of French people in 2011 (Wikipedia).
One of the first written references of couscous is from an anonymous 13th-century North African cookbook (Wikipedia).
Couscous is a staple food throughout the North African cuisines of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania and Libya (Wikipedia).
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