Couscous Salad with Parsley and Lime
Couscous pairs with salad vegetbles, parsley and lime to make this Middle Eastern inspired, exquisite fresh salad. Enjoy it as a side dish or have it for lunch. You will love the flavors in this tasty salad.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Salad
Ingredients
Scale
- 8 3/4 oz (250g) couscous
- 11 fl oz (300ml) boiling hot water or vegetable stock, as needed
- Quarter of a cucumber (or quarter of a diced green bell pepper)
- 4 vine-ripened tomatoes
- 3 tablespoons corn kernels
- 1 1/3 oz (40g) fresh parsley
- Small bunch of green onions
- Grated zest of a lime
- 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 minced garlic clove
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- Salt and black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- First of all you need to make the couscous.
- Put it in a bowl and pour over the boiling water or stock.
- Give the mixture a stir.
- Now put a plate on top of the bowl (or plastic wrap if you prefer) and let it stand until all the liquid is absorbed.
- This should take about 5 minutes.
- If you still have some liquid, you can sieve the couscous, but this isn’t usually necessary.
- Now you can use a fork to fluff up the grains of couscous.
- Finely dice the cucumber and tomatoes, mince the parsley, and slice the green onions.
- Stir the cucumber, tomatoes, corn, parsley and green onions into the couscous.
- Stir in the lime zest too.
- Next whisk together the oil, garlic and lime zest and grind in some salt and black pepper.
- Drizzle this dressing over the couscous and toss well to combine all the ingredients together.
- Serve as a salad or side dish.
Notes
Moroccan Couscous, on Amazon