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Couscous Salad

Name: Couscous Salad
Cuisine: Salad
Ingredients: For the Salad; 8 servings of couscous, prepared and set aside to cool. (I used 2 2/3 cup of dry couscous 3 1/2 cups of water and a big glub of oil and a nice big pinch of salt); 7 small gourmet cucumbers, washed and chopped (if you can’t find the gourmet, hot house, or English, use regular, but take the skin off); 3 Peppers (I used red, yellow, and orange); half a large red onion chopped; black olives chopped*; For the Dressing; 2 cloves of garlic, smashed and chopped; 1/2 c. olive oil; Juice of two lemons; 2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar (any white vinegar would do even red wine vinegar would be good); big squeeze of dijon mustard; lots of dried dill; salt and pepper

Ingredients

For the Salad
8 servings of couscous, prepared and set aside to cool. (I used 2 2/3 cup of dry couscous 3 1/2 cups of water and a big glub of oil and a nice big pinch of salt)
7 small gourmet cucumbers, washed and chopped (if you can’t find the gourmet, hot house, or English, use regular, but take the skin off)
3 Peppers (I used red, yellow, and orange)
half a large red onion chopped
black olives chopped*
For the Dressing
2 cloves of garlic, smashed and chopped
1/2 c. olive oil
Juice of two lemons
2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar (any white vinegar would do even red wine vinegar would be good)
big squeeze of dijon mustard
lots of dried dill
salt and pepper

Instructions

Combine the ingredients for the salad in a large container.
Make the dressing: Whisk all ingredients in mixing bowl until emulsified.
Add the room temperature couscous to the vegetables. You want to make sure that the couscous isn’t at all hot, you don’t want it to wilt the cucumbers.
Pour the dressing over the whole salad and toss very well to combine the dressing with the salad. You could eat this room temperature, or chill it – we did both and it was remarkably delicious.

Notes

This made 8 big bowls of salad, if it’s a side dish it could easily serve 10.