Whole-Wheat Couscous with Almonds
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Body+Soul, October 2006
- Prep Time 5 minutes
- Total Time 20 minutes
- Yield Serves 4
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Ingredients
- 1 cup whole-wheat couscous
- 3 tablespoons slivered almonds
- 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 plum tomato, coarsely chopped
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 1 tablespoon capers, rinsed and drained
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- Coarse salt
Directions
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Place the couscous in a medium bowl and pour 1 1/2 cups of boiling water over it. Stir, cover, and let it stand 10 minutes.
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Meanwhile, in a small skillet, toast the almonds over medium heat until lightly golden, about 3 minutes; remove from heat.
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Uncover the couscous and add the almonds, oil, tomato, parsley, capers, and garlic. Season the mixture with salt and fluff with a fork. Serve at room temperature.
although it's less healthy, i find this recipe tastes much better with israeli cous cous. keeps longer too!
uh, the nutritional info is right next to the picture...
These recipes need to have the nutritional info posted with them!
mmsrjs, I like your comment and I wholeheartedly agree! :o)
I'm going to use cucumber cut up really small instead of the capers.
mmsrjs- capers and god, one of the stangest things I've heard in ages. I laughed so hard when I read your comment!
This was so good!!! Really comforting and filling. I ate too much though I almost finished the whole thing myself.
mmsrjs, bit of a stretch linking capers to religion, don't you think?
Any other suggestions for an atheist who wants to replace capers with a different ingredient? :P
took a while to get used to capers and now we love them. Besides they come from God's Country where Jesus grew up. So if it's good enough for our LORD, its good enough for me.
I'm not a fan of capers...any idea on what would be a good replacement ingredient?
FYI - Couscous is not suitable for people with celiac disease or who are watching how much flour they eat. Even the whole wheat kind is still just flour and water, just whole wheat flour.
I would really like to try this and would like to know if the total fat could be broken down to how much is saturated fat?
if I left out the raw garlic, would it be a negative factor in weight loss boosting? I always feel sick with raw garlic