Mediterranean Pearled Couscous Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette

This 30 minute, meatless pearled couscous salad with Feta and lemon vinaigrette is perfect for a light dinner or as a summer side dish. Great for picnics!

Couscous

Couscous is a useful (and delicious!) no-cook starch side that's traditionally served in Morocco/North Africa with some sort of stew.

Pearl Couscous Salad

Tender, slightly chewy with a slippery "pearly" surface, this Israeli Couscous Salad utterly irresistible! Also known as Pearl Couscous or Gourmet Couscous.

Skillet Pearled Couscous with Tomatoes, Feta, and Spinach

A quick one-skillet meal of couscous with tomatoes, spinach, and feta cheese.

Sexy Lentil Salad

Secret to a great lentil salad - cook lentils in a simple flavoured broth or marinate canned lentils. Sprinkle with feta, drizzle with lemon salad dressing!

Salmon, fennel and couscous

Crispy skin salmon with roasted fennel and a Middle Eastern inspired couscous is the ultimate midweek dinner. 

Couscous and Mograbiah With Oven-Dried Tomatoes From 'Ottolenghi'

Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi's cafe, Ottolenghi, serves a multitude of grain-based salads. Many are rice, barley, or couscous-based. This version in their recently re-released cookbook, however, stood out for its inclusion of mograbiah, a Middle Eastern semolina pasta much like Israeli couscous or Sardinian fregola.

Quinoa Salad With Dried Tart Cherries, Mint, and Feta in Lemon-Sumac Vinaigrette

This quinoa salad takes Middle Eastern flavors and ties them together with a sumac-lemon vinaigrette. The mix of tart, dried cherries, mint, parsley, salty feta, and pomegranate is enough to make you forget you're eating healthy.

Pasta Salad with Sun Dried Tomatoes

The star of this big, juicy Pasta Salad is the dressing - it's made using the flavour infused oil from the jar of Sun Dried Tomatoes.

Antipasto Chickpea Salad

I can't wait for you to get hooked on this Chickpea Salad too! Easy to make, mainly just opening jars, filled with punchy antipasto flavours.