Curried Couscous

Submitted by weekend cooker

"an easy quick side dish, with little preparation time."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 4-6 dishes
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups chicken broth
• 1⁄2 cup golden raisin
• 1 teaspoon curry powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup uncooked couscous
• 1⁄3 cup oil
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1⁄2 cup slivered almonds, toasted
• 2 fresh green onions, sliced

directions

1. Ina large saucepan, combine chicken broth, raisins, curry powder, and salt and bring to a boil.
2. Remove from heat, and stir in couscous. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes.
3. Fluff with fork and cook uncovered.
4. Combine oil, lemon juice, sugar, and almonds and toss with couscous.
5. Sprinkle green onion over top and serve.

Reviews

[Outta Here]

This is one of the best couscous dishes I have had! Great combination of flavors. I made a couple of changes, though. We don't care for raisins, so I used dried cranberries, and since they are sweetened, I left out the sugar. I use a spicy curry powder, so this had a nice bite to it. And loved the crunch of the toasted almonds. Went great with a salmon filet. Made for Best of 2011 game.

 

[averybird]

What a wonderful dish. I made this as written with the golden raisins, lemon juice, and olive oil. I toasted the slivered almonds in the oven too until light brown. Only change was to use vegetable broth in place of chicken broth. Served with Recipe#344072, yogurt raita, and peach chutney. It was the perfect side dish for this meal. Thanks, weekend cooker!

 

[loof751]

Loved this great couscous! I used regular raisins instead of golden and chives instead of green onion as that's what I had on hand. The curry was great with the raisins and almonds and provided a great flavor. I did use only about half of the olive oil with the lemon juice. Thanks for sharing the recipe!

 

[Deantini]

I followed the ealier reviews and omitted the oil, sugar and lemon and the couscous turned out quite bland. So no fault of the recipe which is why I am not adding any stars. I like couscous without adding oils so perhaps this recipe does need the lemon (like other reviewers have also suggested) or perhaps it is just a recipe for the people that like all the add-ins.

 

[MarraMamba]

delish, had it as a side dish for some chicken :)