Tussi-Couscous with soft apricots

AUTHOR
Melissa Olsen
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
25 mins
TOTAL TIME
25 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 150 g dried soft apricots
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 6 TABLESPOONS Olive oil
  • 250 g Couscous
  • 3 Spring onions
  • 3 Branches of rosemary
  • 2 Basil pots
  • 1 Organic Lemon
  • 1 Garlic clove
  • 1 red chilli pepper
  • 7-10 Tbsp ground cumin
  • 150 g Feta

Directions

  1. 1

    Halve the apricots. Boil 250 ml salted water. Add 2 tbsp. oil, apricots and couscous while stirring gently. Remove the pot from the heat, let the mixture swell in the closed pot for about 5 minutes.

  2. 2

    Clean and wash spring onions and cut into fine rings. Wash the herbs and shake dry. Pluck rosemary needles and basil leaves and chop finely. Wash lemon hot, dab dry and grate peel finely.

  3. 3

    Peel garlic and chop very finely. Clean the chilli (if you don't like it quite so hot, remove the seeds), wash and cut into fine rings. Mix herbs, lemon peel, chili and 4 tablespoons of oil.

  4. 4

    Halve the lemon, squeeze the juice. Stir 4-6 tbsp. lemon juice into the vinaigrette. Season with salt and cumin.

  5. 5

    Loosen the couscous mix with a fork. Mix with the vinaigrette. Crumble the feta. Sprinkle couscous salad with feta.