
Sweet and Sour Couscous
Ingredients
- 150 g wholemeal couscous + 150 ml hot water not hot
- 60 g raisins
- 240 g cooked or canned chickpeas
- 180 g fresh pineapple
- 6 large cherry tomatoes or 3 small ones
- 1 medium zucchini
- 60 g spinach leaves or spinach shoots or a nice bunch of fresh parsley
- A few fresh mint leaves or dried mint
- 2 tbsp. dried onion flakes
- 1 tsp. garlic powder
- 1 tsp. cane sugar
- 1 tsp. sweet curry powder
- 1 tsp of salt
- pepper
- extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Soak the raisins in a bowl with warm water until used, about 15 minutes.
- In a large bowl, pour the semolina and sprinkle with warm, not hot, water. Cover and let it swell until the vegetables are ready.
- Fry the chickpeas in a pan with a little olive oil and add the dried onion flakes until golden.
- Pour the chickpeas onto a plate and set aside until needed.
- Cut the pineapple into small cubes and caramelize in a frying pan with a drop of olive oil and 1 tsp of cane sugar. A few minutes are enough. Pour on a plate and reserve until use.
- Wash the tomatoes, spinach, mint leaves and zucchini and chop them very finely.
- Drain the semolina, separating the grains with a fork.
- Drain the raisins.
- Pour all the ingredients on the semolina: raisins, roasted chickpeas with onions, caramelized pineapple, spinach, mint, zucchini and tomatoes. Add curry powder, garlic powder, salt and pepper and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil. Mix well.
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