Mediterranean Couscous Salad – Emily Bites

This Mediterranean Couscous Salad is simple, wholesome, and excellent for lunches or meatless meal prep for the week. You possibly can even deliver it as a facet dish to a cookout or potluck. This dish is straightforward to make, vegetarian, and filled with recent flavors: candy tomatoes, crunchy cucumber, hearty chickpeas, salty olives, creamy Feta, recent herbs, and itty bitty couscous all tossed collectively in a tasty Greek French dressing. What’s to not love? Plus, every satisfying serving of just a little over a cup is simply 187 energy or 6 WW PersonalPoints. When you have entire wheat couscous as a Zero Level meals you possibly can substitute that and scale back the factors to 4 PersonalPoints per serving. To view your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and observe it within the WW app or web site, click on right here.

I really like couscous in a salad as a result of it’s so small it feels prefer it’s bouncing round my tongue whereas I eat it. That’s most likely bizarre, however I really feel what I really feel, okay? If you happen to’ve by no means had it earlier than, couscous isn’t an entire grain or a seed like quinoa (although they each appear like little dots), it’s really a pasta. It cooks tremendous shortly, so it’s simple to whip up and toss with some veggies and your favourite French dressing for a salad. You can even use entire wheat couscous if most well-liked or if in case you have it as a WW zero level meals.

Serving Measurement

After I measured out this salad I had about 6 ½ cups whole, so the serving measurement is barely greater than a cup. I assume I’ll say it’s a barely rounded cup? Backside line: if you happen to’re measuring your serving, be at liberty to be just a little bit beneficiant together with your measuring cup.

Attainable Additions

• Grains: I extremely advocate Moroccan couscous on this as a result of it’s actually good, however if you wish to use the flavors of this salad and swap it out for one thing else you possibly can. You possibly can cook dinner up some pearl couscous, quinoa, orzo, or farro to make use of on this and I feel they’d all be tasty.
• Meat: I made this dish as a meatless salad, however if you wish to add some hen or steak I’m positive it will style good and make this a heartier meal.
• Veggies: I don’t like uncooked onion so I by no means use it in something, however I think about crimson onion would work on this! Similar factor with diced bell peppers. Chopped spinach may very well be good as nicely.

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