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Couscous Salad

Add a bit of colour to your next barbecue with this beautiful pink salad. Yes Pink! Did you want it in another colour?

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6-8

Couscous Salad

Ingredients

  • 1 cup couscous
  • 1 cup finely chopped spring onions
  • 1/2 cup chopped parsley
  • 1/2 cup chopped mint
  • 1 avocado, halved, stoned and diced
  • 2 tomatoes, finely diced
  • 410g can Wattie's Beetroot Chunky Cuts, well drained
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup ETA Mayonnaise
  • 1/2 cup lemon juice
beetroot chunky mayonnaise

Method

1. Put the couscous into a large bowl and pour over 1 cup of boiling water. Set aside to stand for 10 minutes, then fluff the couscous with a fork.

2. Add the spring onions, parsley, mint, avocado, tomatoes, Wattie’s Beetroot Chunky Cuts and salt and toss gently to mix.

3. Stir the Eta Mayonnaise and lemon juice together and toss through the couscous salad just before serving.

Serve as a side dish with BBQ meat, fish or chicken


17 Ratings, 1331 added this to Cookbook

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sherri's Review | Rating

absolutly define salad, very tasty, filling meal with some smoked chicken mixed through. yum

Diane's Review | Rating

Couscous is always easy to throw together and the beetroot adds a lovely colour and zing

brent's Review | Rating

Try dicing some dates and apricots and tossing these through

Michelle's Review | Rating

There are so many things you can add to this scrummy salad

Sara's Review | Rating

Excellent salad! Did change the dressing to 1/2 cup lite mayo and 1/2 cup plain yoghurt to lower fat content. Also added some feta cheese - beautiful!

Natasha's Review | Rating

Absolutely delicious!

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Bronwyn's Review | Rating

This is a easy and a very lovely salad

Vince's Review | Rating

Delicious! I've made this so many times now. Perfect for a vegetarian meal on it's own, or with bbq meat :)

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Toni's Review | Rating

Absolutely beautiful.

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misty topp's Review | Rating

has anyone tried this without avocado and adding feta cheese and cooked pumpkin????

Sean Paul's Review | Rating

Would this salad be okay without the dressing?

Laura Stevens's Review | Rating

This is a great summer couscous, Im not much of a star cook but I made this for a family dinner and it was a real hit with the ladies (they now think im talented ha).

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