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Golden couscous with apricots & crispy onions
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Golden couscous with apricots & crispy onions

12 ingredients 15 min + 20 min Serves 6 openrecipes
Golden couscous with apricots & crispy onions

Jazz up your grains with fried onions, mint and coriander, a touch of fruit and spices

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

596
Calories
10g
Protein
28g
Fat
80g
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
Vegetable 1 tbsp (14g) 120
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Red Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Apricot 1 medium (35g) 17
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Turmeric 1 tsp ground (3g) 9
Cinnamon 1 tsp ground (2.6g) 6
Sunflower Oil not in our table 0
Coriander not in our table 0
Peppermint 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

  • 500g couscous
  • 1 vegetable stock cube
  • 2 tsp turmeric
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 100g dried apricots , chopped
  • 3 red onions , thinly sliced
  • 1 tsp caster sugar
  • about 500ml vegetable or sunflower oil
  • zest and juice 1 lemon
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • small bunch coriander , chopped
  • small handful mint , chopped, a few leaves reserved

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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