 Re: Food Cheats
What my mother would call couscous salad and her it is called taboule. Just cook a big portion of couscous as per the manufacturer instructions (normally, drop 500g in 500ml of bouling salted water, let is get swollen during 4min; then put it back into the fire and add a spoon full of butter and mix using a fork for a few minutes). Reserve
In a frying pan, put olive oil, and let it heat. Then drop in crushed garlic (about 3 cloves), and let it fry until it start to change colour. Put in onions finely chopped (3 or 4), and red peppers. Put salt and pepper to taste. Saute until they get soft. Finally drop chopped tomatoes (5-6). Let it cook until you obtain a thick sauce. Again, try for salt and pepper. Mix the tomato sauce with the couscous and let it cook for a little longer, until the couscous absorbs the moisture.
Take it out from the fire, put it in a salad bowl and mix it with very finely chopped fresh mint leaves and lemon juice to taste.
Let it cool and serve at RT. It will stay for a few days (actually, it is better after an overnight).
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