Sweet and Sour Couscous

Sweet and Sour Couscous

Sweet and Sour Couscous

Lucie BIGOT
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Lunch
Cuisine French
Servings 4 people

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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