Couscous Salad
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Couscous Salad

Colourful couscous with cucumber, tomato, bell pepper and chickpeas – quick to make and perfect to take along.

Prep time
Prep time: 15 min
4 servings
4 servings
Difficulty
Easy

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Ingredients

  • Couscous200 g
  • Cucumber1 piece
  • Tomato2 piece
  • Bell pepper1 piece
  • Chickpeas1 can
  • Mint0.5 bunch
  • Lemon1 piece
  • Olive oil3 tbsp
  • Salt

Preparation

  1. 1

    Pour the same amount of boiling water over the couscous, cover it and let it swell for 8 min. Fluff it up.

  2. 2

    Finely dice the cucumber, tomato and bell pepper and chop the mint. (10 min)

  3. 3

    Mix the vegetables, chickpeas and couscous.

  4. 4

    Season with lemon juice, olive oil and salt and let the salad rest briefly.

What makes this recipe special

The recipe comes first — no long preamble. Down here you'll find real numbers for this exact dish: season, plant diversity, meat in comparison.

Im Juni hat Gurke hier Saison — frischer und meist günstiger als importiert.

Why cooking in season pays off

Rein pflanzlich und mit 7 verschiedenen Pflanzenarten zahlt dieses Gericht direkt auf das Ziel von 30 Pflanzen pro Woche ein.

Why 30 plants a week?

Ganz ohne Fleisch oder Fisch — eine durchschnittliche Mahlzeit in Westeuropa kommt auf rund 60 g.

How mangia shows your balance

So viel zu diesem Gericht — wie sich deine ganze Woche summiert (Pflanzen, Fleisch, Saison), zeigt dir die mangia-Bilanz, ganz ohne Zählen.

What mangia can do

Avg. values: Western European nutrition studies · 30-plant goal: American Gut Project 2018 / ZOE

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