Quilt Lady Cooking: Turkey Cous Cous Salad

Continuing my mission of cooking as little as possible during the hot months of summer, I bring you the latest addition of Quilt Lady Cooking. This Cous Cous salad is a mainstay at our house during the summer. The great part about it is that the only thing to cook is the cous cous which takes about 5 minutes. It’s also low calories as well…just in case you were wondering…or had been having a “little” too much ice cream.

Here we go,

Ingredients:

2 cups chicken broth

1 cup plain cous cous

1 cup red seedless grapes, cut in half

1/3 cup currants

1 small red onion chopped

10 dates, pitted and chopped

3 Tbsp parsley

¼ cup pine nuts (these are REALLY, REALLY expensive this year so omit if needed)

3 Tbsp orange juice

2 Tbsp Balsamic vinegar

1 Tbsp Olive oil

1 tsp honey Dijon mustard

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp ground cumin

½ lb. smoked turkey, cut into ½” cubes

Salad greens

Directions:

Bring chicken broth to a boil, remove from heat and stir in cous cous. Cover and allow to cool.

Combine dates, grapes, currants, onion, turkey, cous cous and pine nuts in a bowl.

Whisk together orange juice, vinegar, olive oil, mustard, salt and ground cumin.

Pour over cous cous mix.

Sprinkle with parsley and serve with salad greens.

For a printable version of this recipe click  here. Enjoy!

Comments

[Denise :)]

It looks yummy -- I haven't eaten breakfast yet, and reading the recipe got a growl from my tummy! LOL! :)

[Linda]

This recipe is great and very refreshing in this summer heat. I have a recipe that resembles this one but has feta cheese added to it. I don't know if you have Costco in Colorado but I was there this past weekend and they have pine seeds (a huge bag) $8-9 dollars and someone told me that it will last forever if you freeze what you don't use.
Thank you for the good recipes and wonderful patterns.

[Weber Grills]

This is great to find a cous cous recipe, me and my wife have been churning out the same dish for cous cous for ages. You have a real mix of flavours here which sounds great.