Couscous Salad Recipe

4.50 from 7 votes
A colorful bowl of couscous salad filled with diced tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, bell peppers, chickpeas, black olives, and herbs. The ingredients are mixed together, creating a vibrant and fresh-looking dish.

This Mediterranean couscous salad is light, delicious and very refreshing. The recipe is very easy to make and takes just a few minutes, the tastes are unique and reminds a holiday in the middle east. If you are looking for a salad recipe, this salad is defiantly forth a try.

A colorful bowl of couscous salad filled with diced tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, bell peppers, chickpeas, black olives, and herbs. The ingredients are mixed together, creating a vibrant and fresh-looking dish.

Couscous Salad Recipe

4.50 from 7 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
WORK TIME 15 minutes
DIFFICULTY Easy
Cuisine Middle eastern
Servings 6 yields

Ingredients
 

For the salad:

  • 1 cup 170g Instant couscous
  • 1 cup 240ml Hot water
  • ½ teaspoon Salt
  • ½ teaspoon Cumin
  • 1 Red onion chopped
  • 200 g Cherry tomatoes quartered
  • 1 Cucumber diced
  • 1 Bell pepper diced
  • 1 can 300g Chickpeas, drained
  • â…“ cups Olives
  • ¼ bunch Mint chopped

For the dressing:

  • 3 tablespoons Olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons Lemon juice
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper to taste

Instructions
 

  • DIRECTIONS
    1. In a large bowl, mix couscous, salt and cumin. Add hot water, cover and set aside for preparing the vegetables.
    2. Before adding the vegetables fluff the couscous with a fork.
    3. Add chopped onion, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, chickpeas, olives and chopped mint.
    4. Make the dressing: in a small bowl whisk olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
    5. Pour over the salad and mix until well combined.
    6. Serve!

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