Mom's Curry Couscous Salad
Mom's Curry Couscous Salad

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Warm up to the fall weather that's approaching with the warming curry flavors in this garbanzo bean and couscous salad. If you love spicy foods, add in some extra hot sauce to give this dish a real kick. Great for gluten-free households with the substitution of quinoa instead of couscous.

Mom's Curry Couscous Salad is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Mom's Curry Couscous Salad is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mom's curry couscous salad using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mom's Curry Couscous Salad:
  1. Get Ingredients
  2. Make ready 1 cup couscous, cooked and cooled
  3. Prepare 1 can 15.5-ounce chickpeas, drained
  4. Prepare 4 green onion tops, chopped
  5. Make ready 2 carrots, medium dice
  6. Get 2 celery stalks, medium dice
  7. Take 1/2 cup golden raisins
  8. Get Dressing
  9. Take 3/4 cup olive oil, extra virgin
  10. Prepare 1/4 cup lemon juice
  11. Get 3/4 tsp ground Malabar black pepper
  12. Take 4 tsp red curry powder (McCormick)
  13. Get 3/4 tsp ground allspice
  14. Take 3/4 tsp sea salt

A ton of healthy ingredients go into this salad: Garbanzo beans, carrots, celery, parsley, green onions, extra virgin olive oil, vinegar, honey, raisins (or dried currants if you prefer, they're smaller - or even dried cherries or cranberries), curry powder, and turmeric. And if you want to bump up the health factor you can even. Curried Couscous salad is a delicious blend of spiced couscous, chopped vegetables, and a light dressing. It is full of flavor without being heavy, and it's vegan-friendly.

Steps to make Mom's Curry Couscous Salad:
  1. Combine the couscous, chickpeas, green onions, carrots, celery, and golden raisins in a large bowl. Mix well and set aside.
  2. In a separate small bowl, add the olive oil, lemon juice, black pepper, curry powder, allspice, and sea salt. Whisk vigorously to combine.
  3. Add the dressing to the couscous mixture and stir to combine letting dressing coat well.
  4. Let the couscous salad sit in the refrigerator for the flavors to marry and serve cold.

The blend of curry, cumin, and paprika give the chickpeas a nice kick of flavor that's offset by the cool, crisp greens and veggies. This is a gourmet side salad, not your typical side salad. This Spicy Curried Couscous (Mendocino Farms Copycat) is served cold and it has so many pops of delicious flavors. This recipe is a copycat from Mendocino Farms and the recipe was adapted from LA Times. A few tweaks were made to the recipe to make it better.

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