Hello! Hello! Did you have a nice week-end? I did! I spent a wonderful time with my best friends. We made this delicious Tabbouleh on Sunday before going to the lake.
Couscous Tabbouleh Recipe
Ingredients
- 500 gr couscous 3 cups or 1.1 lb.
- 3 onions
- 6 tbsp dried grapes
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 cucumber
- 4 to matoes
- 1 yellow pepper
- 1 red pepper
- 1 dl extra virgin olive oil
- 15 gr fresh mint 0.5 oz.
- 2 lemons
- salt
- pepper
Instructions
- Soak the dried grapes in water. Bring to a boil some water. In a bowl, add as many as glasses of semolina than glasses of boiling water with a pinch of salt and a bit of olive oil. Cover and leave for 5 minutes. Then fluff with a fork and reserve to cool.
- Slice the onions. Heat a pan with some olive oil and brown them. Then add the dried grapes and the brown sugar on top of the onions and cover with water. Leave to cook until there is no more liquid and reserve to cool.
- In the meantime, wash, peel and dice the cucumber. Wash and dice the tomato. Chisel the fresh mint.
- When onions and semolina are getting cold, mix with the vegetables. Then add the juice of the two lemons, the extra virgin olive oil, the fresh mint, salt and pepper. Mix during 2 minutes and place in your fridge for at least 1 hour.
Thank you for this lovely recipe! I don’t often make or eat tabbouleh (unfortunately I don’t LOVE the taste of the bulgur wheat, despite loving all of the other flavours within). However, made with couscous, I think you just might be onto a winner! Cheers, Margot
Thanks Margot. It is the same for me! That’s why I use couscous!
Oh, I never knew semolina and couscous were the same thing. And I have all the ingredients for this. Great! Thank you!
Euh… I looked into my French-English dictionary so… I am not sure 100% but you can surely tell me by looking on the box you have at home :)! So?
It says “couscous” and “made from durum wheat”. No mention of semolina but I think it`s made from semolina wheat too? Anyway, I`ve always associated tabbouleh with couscous. But I`m interested in the semolina connection because my mother used to serve semolina as a dessert back in the seventies. I never thought of it as a savoury wheat type dish. Ohh, and we kids didn`t really like it either-it reminded us of frogs`eggs!
Thanks for this recipe! I love tabbouleh and this looks amazing!
Thanks! Love the name of your blog! Really funny!