Couscous and Pomegranate Salad

Submitted by strawberrybird

"North African version of couscous salad. Posted for ZWT6."

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 2 cups
• Serves: 2

ingredients

• 1 cup couscous
• boiling water
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 teaspoons sherry wine vinegar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon harissa
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 cup dried apricot, diced
• 2 -3 cups pomegranate seeds (from 1 pomegranate)
• 1 green pepper, diced

directions

1. Place the couscous in a large mixing bowl. Add olive oil, vinegar, harrisa, and lemon juice. Stir.
2. Pour boiling water over the couscous until just covered. Stir. If couscous looks dry add more water. Cover bowl and let sit 6 minutes.
3. Use a fork to fluff the couscous. If the couscous is too dry or too hard, add more water, cover and let sit another few minutes.
4. Add green pepper and pomegranate seeds.

Reviews

[evelynathens]

Loved this. It tasted as beautifully as it looked. The harissa gave it a nice spark cooled down by the bursts of sweet/sour from the pomegranate. Delicious. Thanks.

 

[DianaEatingRichly]

Delicious and beautiful! I didn't want to hunt down harissa for just one recipe so I made a similar paste with sriracha, cumin, garlic powder, caraway and coriander. Great spark of heat with the sweet apricots and tart pomegranate seeds.

 

[LifeIsGood]

When pomegranate is in season (or when I can get the pomegranate seeds at Trader Joes!), I will make put this into the cooking rotation. I loved the combination of apricots and pomegranate! I also enjoyed the zing of spice that the harissa offered. ~Made for Zee Zesties on the ZWT6~

 

[Tea Jenny]

This is a very nice salad, and it would go with almost anything so pretty like jewels on a plate. I had mine with fish, just plain fish, so as to taste the salad, and it had a very nice picante flavour, not to hot. I guessed that the apricots, should be added at the same time as the peppers and pomegranate. Thank you for posting. Made for ZWT#6 2010.

 

[PaulaG]

DH and I really enjoyed this delicious salad. The recipe was cut in half and still produced 3 side dish servings. The pomegranate was one that I had frozen when in season. The seeds were reduced by abut half and it worked well for us. Made for *ZWT6*