Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, couscous pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Couscous pasta salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Couscous pasta salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
It's got the benefits of a salad and the presentation is simple and elegant with the pearl-like pasta shape! The best part of it is that it's served cold, straight out of the fridge. It seriously gives you the cool down you need when coming indoors to escape the heat.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook couscous pasta salad using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Couscous pasta salad:
- Get 1 cup chicken broth
- Get 1 cup Couscous
- Prepare 1/4 cup Red Onion - Diced
- Take 1 cup Cucumber - Diced
- Get 1 cup Cherry Tomatoes - Halved
- Prepare 1 cup Brocolli - Chopped
- Make ready 2 tbsp Fresh Dill
- Take 1/3 cup Feta Cheese
- Get 2 tbsp Balsamic Vinegarette Salad Dressing
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Salt
For this Greek Couscous Pasta Salad, I drove over to Walmart to pick up Hidden Valley's Greek Yogurt Dip Mix along with a few other ingredients to add texture and variety to the pasta salad. Since I wanted to stick with a Greek theme, I used tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion, and kalamata olives. Refresh the flavors by adding some extra dressing or a dash of salt or pepper. It's not recommended to freeze couscous because freezing pasta will result in a mushy texture once it is thawed out.
Steps to make Couscous pasta salad:
- Bring chicken broth to boil in a small pot. Remove from heat. Quickly pour in Couscous and stir briefly, then cover pot. Let stand for 5 minutes. Then fluff with a fork and stir in the herb a bit.
- Chop up all your veggies. Place in bowl.
- Add Coucous to the same bowl and the rest of the ingredients. Stir it all up.
- You can eat it right away, but it's best to let it sit covered in the fridge for at least an hour first or preferabley overnight.
An acini di pepe (or couscous) pasta salad with coconut, pineapple, Mandarin oranges, and marshmallows. Rinse couscous in a colander with cold water and transfer to a bowl. Allow couscous to absorb hot water until tender. Fluff with a fork and allow to cool. Combine with vegetables, garbanzo beans, herbs, and feta.
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