
Rainbow Couscous Salad
- Super simple
- 0:15 m
- 19 ingredients
If you're looking for a healthy, tasty, easy plant-based salad recipe - this is the one for you. You can either eat it all at once with a group of friends or you can pop it in tupperware and eat it cold for lunch for the next couple of days!
Serves: 4
Ingredients
For the couscous
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 300g couscous
For the salad
- 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 100g smoked almonds
- 100g raisins
- 60g grapes
- 60g sun-dried tomatoes
- 60g olives
- 100g sweetcorn
- 40g basil
- 1 pack of vacuum beetroot
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 pomegranate
- ½ cucumber
- 1 avocado
- chilli flakes
- Salt & pepper to taste
- Juice of 1 lemon
To serve
- rocket
Before you start
Large mixing bowl | Boil the kettle
Step 1
Make the couscous
- Tip 300g of of couscous into a large bowl along with the smoked paprika and oregano
- Pour boiling water over the couscous until its fully submerged and the couscous is sitting roughly 1cm below the level of the water
- Cover with a tea towel for 2-3 minutes until all of the water is absorbed and then, using a fork, fluff up the couscous until there are no clumps
Ingredients
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 300g couscous
- Juice of 1 lemon
Step 2
Make the salad
- Chop your grapes, olives and sun dried tomatoes in half
- Chop the cucumber, red pepper, beetroot and avocado into small chunks
- Roughly chop the basil and cut the pomegranate in half, bashing out the seeds with a wooden spoon
- Throw all your chopped veg into the couscous along with the smoked almonds and raisins
- Squeeze the juice of a lemon and pour in the pomegranate molasses and olive oil
- Mix everything together and season with salt and pepper
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 100g smoked almonds
- 100g raisins
- 60g grapes
- 60g sun-dried tomatoes
- 60g olives
- 100g sweetcorn
- 40g basil
- 1 pack of vacuum beetroot
- rocket
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 pomegranate
- ½ cucumber
- 1 avocado
- chilli flakes
- Salt & pepper to taste