Munchy Monday #17: Couscous and cucumber salad

This is a new recipe for us. I found the original on internet and just altered it to suit us. I can certainly say that we all liked this salad a lot.

I served this salad along with the bean salad, green apple salad with oven baked panga as the animal protein part of the meal - all very easy to prepare.

You will need:

275 g raw couscous
1 3/4 cups cold water
Small shake (or a few drops) yellow food colouring (optional)
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 tblsp. olive oil
1 level tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground black pepper
1 medium sized cucumber, seeded and chopped into small pieces
1 small sweet onion, chopped as for cucumber
1 heaped tsp. dried parsley
1 level tsp. dried basil

Method:

Put the water to boil in a saucepan. Add colouring, if desired, at this point. When the water boils, remove saucepan from heat and add couscous. Stir with a fork and leave to soak for two mins. Turn couscous out into a serving bowl, separating the grains with a fork. Leave to cool. Meanwhile, in another bowl, mix the remaining ingredients and leave to marinate until the couscous are cool (10 - 15 mins.) Add the cucumber mix to the couscous and stir well. Keep in fridge until needed.