Photo: Anna Pelzer
Kid’s customised couscous salad
13 ingredients
30 min
Serves 4
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Couscous is easy to prepare and can be used as a base for a healthy salad that can contain whatever veg children choose. Couscous can be served warm as a side dish for stews and curries or cold as a salad - it is perfect cooked the day before for picnics and lunchboxes.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
517
Calories
12g
Protein
18g
Fat
83g
Carbs
Counts 10 of 13 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Couscous | 1 cup cooked (157g) | 176 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Cherry | 1 cup (138g) | 87 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Walnut | 1 walnut half (4g) | 26 |
| Tomato | 1 medium (123g) | 22 |
| Apricot | 1 medium (35g) | 17 |
| Cucumber | 1/2 cup sliced (52g) | 16 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Olive | 1 large (4g) | 4 |
| Sweetcorn | not in our table | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Fruits | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- ¼ cucumber
- 10 cherry tomatoes
- 1 pepper
- 2 spring onions
- 100g/3½oz sweetcorn
- 150g/5½oz couscous
- small lemonorange
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 200ml/7fl oz boiling water
- small bunch herbs, such as parsleycoriander
- small handful nuts, such as flaked almondspine nutspistachios
- small handful olives
- small handful dried fruits such as raisinssultanasdried apricots
Directions
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By bbcfood ·
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