Couscous Salad

Prep Time: 40min

This salad is so much more than just couscous. Super easy to prep in advance and take with you in a small Tupperware. It’s delicious when eaten at room temperature, so take it out of the fridge about an hour before you’re planning to eat it. 

Preheat your oven to 200C. Take a can of chickpeas and wash them with water. Then spread the chickpeas in a pyrex or on a sheet of baking paper. Sprinkle them with olive oil and add 7 spices, pepper and persil. Mix well and put them in the oven for 20-30min until crunchy, but not too hard. Keep stirring them every 10 minutes while in the oven.

Use the amount of water indicated for your couscous on the package. Boil the water and add a bouillon cube to it. Take it off the fire and add the couscous. Close the pan and let soak for 5min. Add couscous spices and stir well. 

Take the peach slices out of the can and wash them with water. Put them in a grill pan and sprinkle some olive oil on them while heating the pan on medium fire. 

Let the dried tomatoes soak in water for 5-10min and then cut them in slices. Slice the spring onions in thin rings as well. Especially the green part is nice to eat raw. Then cut some black olives in half and remove the seeds. Cut some fresh persil fine using scissors and keep to garnish. 

If you have some old bread cut it into squares and add some garlic and onion powder on them before letting them get crunchy in the oven. 

Start with the fresh clean spinach in a bowl. Mix 2/3rd of the spring onions with the couscous, dried tomato and grilled peach slices. Then add onto the layer of spinach. Add olives, crunchy chick peas and add the cubes of bread around the sides. Then cut soft goat cheese into chunks and add to liking. Finally top off with the rest of the spring onions and fresh persil. 

Since this salad has already so many flavors and ingredients, it doesn’t need anything else in my opinion. If you want, you could add some walnuts for their health benefits.

Absolutely love this salad and I always make some extra for later in the week!