Couscous Salad
A strong vegetable stock will give great flavour without any hard work!
Ingredients
- 4-5 streaky bacon chopped
- 1 shallots chopped
- 2 red pepper sliced
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- 200 ml vegetable stock
- 200 g couscous
- 1 green pepper chopped
- 4-5 piccolo tomatoes halved
- ½ cucumber diced
- 40 g salad leaves
- 2 tbsp Barbecue sauce or BBq Glaze
- 1 tbsp lemon juice to taste
- 2 tbsp fresh oregano to serve
Method
- In a sauté pan, over medium heat, add the bacon, shallots and cook for 2-3 minutes until cooked through.
- Meanwhile, bring the vegetable stock to a boil in a medium saucepan. Add the couscous. Stir well, remove from heat, cover, and let sit for 5 minutes. Once the liquid has been fully incorporated, fluff the couscous with a fork. Transfer into a bowl, and add the sautéed bacon and shallots, chopped peppers and piccolo tomatoes, cucumber and salad leaves.
- Season with some barbecue sauce, lemon juice, olive oil. check the seasoning and add extra salt and pepper if required.
- Toss to combine the flavour.
- Serve immediately.
