Couscous Salad

Name: Couscous Salad
Cuisine: South Africa
Ingredients: 60 ml mint leaves; 90 ml lemon juice; 1 tin chickpeas, drained; 1 red onion, thinly sliced; 30 g raisins, chopped; 60 g almonds; 125 ml pomegranate pearls; 250 ml chopped coriander; 125 ml olive oil; 375 ml couscous; 1 clove garlic, crushed

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Braai the Beloved Country

By Jean Nel

Published 2014

About

Let’s forget rice salads for a change and think light, nutty and full of flavour. Couscous requires almost no cooking, so it’s perfect for a hot day! Strain tinned chickpeas well and add a lot of salt to the chickpeas for flavour.

Ingredients

125 ml olive oil
375 ml couscous
60 g

Africa
South Africa
Vegan

Method

Put 375 ml water in a large saucepan and bring to the boil. Add 60 ml olive oil and 5 ml salt. Remove f