Consumers usually don't recognize the main ingredient in this salad. And all because the tone is not yet very common (although in stores it is full).
Couscous is most often found next to bulgur in stores. And if we (many, at least) are already accustomed to bulgur, then couscous, again, for many, remains an incomprehensible product. What to do with it, how to cook, what to eat with?
In general, you can cook a lot of delicious things from couscous at any time of the year, and in the summer - a salad.
Do not be alarmed by the amount of ingredients, there are just a lot of them.
We take:
- Couscous - 200 grams;
- Bulgarian pepper - one piece;
- Onion bulb, not bitter - one small;
- Several feathers of green onions;
- Tomatoes - about five, if they are not very large;
- Cucumber - one is enough;
- Two hundred feta grams
- A handful of pine nuts and sunflower seeds (peeled);
- A couple of mint branches;
- Several branches of parsley;
- Good raisins - one hundred grams;
- Salt and pepper to taste;
- And for dressing - olive oil, wine or balsamic vinegar, honey and mustard - according to your taste, you can also use lemon juice - here the flight of imagination is endless.
How we cook:
Lightly fry nuts and sunflower seeds in a pan, leave aside.
Soak the raisins in water.
Cooking crumbly couscous - usually instructions for this matter are on the package. If it is not there, then we use the classic method - pour boiling water over the couscous in a ratio of 1 to one and a half, add a teaspoon of butter, cover, leave to swell for 5-7 minutes. That is, for 100 grams of couscous - 150 milliliters of boiling ode. It all has to be absorbed, we just have to mix it.
Let the bite-bite cool down, at this time we chop the vegetables - as you like, and finely chop the parsley, green onions and mint.
Cut the feta into cubes.
Drain the raisins, squeeze them out
In a separate jar, mix all the ingredients of the dressing and shake vigorously until a homogeneous emulsion is obtained.
In conclusion, we collect all the salad, vegetables, couscous, seeds and nuts, raisins, feta, herbs and onions, gently mix and pour the dressing (the more dressing, the tastier).
Bon Appetit!