How To Make Greek Couscous Salad
Try a new pasta salad with Greek couscous salad! Couscous pasta is tossed with bell peppers, olive oil, lemon juice, tomatoes, olives, and feta cheese.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2½cupswater
- 2cupsIsraeli couscous
- 1red bell pepper,cut into ¼x2-inch strips
- 1yellow bell pepper,cut into ¼x2-inch strips
- ½cupolive oil
- lemon,juiced
- salt and ground black pepper,to taste
- 1cupcherry tomatoes,halved
- 1cupKalamata olives,pitted and halved
- ½cupfeta cheese,crumbled
Instructions
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Bring water to a boil in a saucepan. Add couscous and return mixture to a boil.
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Place a lid on the saucepan, reduce heat to low, and cook at a simmer for 10 minutes, until couscous is tender and the water is absorbed. Transfer couscous to a bowl.
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Heat a skillet over medium heat.
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Cook red bell pepper and yellow bell pepper strips in the hot skillet for about 5 minutes, until soft and slightly charred. Add to couscous and stir.
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Whisk olive oil and lemon juice together in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Drizzle oil mixture over the couscous mixture and stir to coat.
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Gently stir tomatoes, olives, and feta cheese through the couscous. Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 342.49kcal
- Fat: 17.72g
- Saturated Fat: 3.58g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 11.66g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.77g
- Carbohydrates: 38.56g
- Fiber: 3.65g
- Sugar: 1.59g
- Protein: 7.63g
- Cholesterol: 8.34mg
- Sodium: 506.11mg
- Calcium: 82.59mg
- Potassium: 220.32mg
- Iron: 1.45mg
- Vitamin A: 50.12µg
- Vitamin C: 64.81mg
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