Appetizers / Soups / Salads

Olive Couscous Salad is for Lunch.

Olive Couscous Salad takes 20 minutes to prepare.

Olive Couscous Salad takes 5 minutes to cook.

Olive Couscous Salad makes 14 servings.

The ingredients for Olive Couscous Salad are:

1.25 cup whole wheat couscous – prepared with 2tbs olive oil
224g chicken breast cooked & shredded
112g green sweet pepper - cut in 0.5”matchsticks
168g tomatoes - chopped
168g cucumber –peeled & chopped
112g carrots – finely grated
1 onion – finely chopped
120g black olives – olives chopped in half
dressing ingredients below
1.5 tbs olive oil
1.5 tbs balsamic vinegar
black pepper
.25 tsp salt
2 clove garlic - finely chopped or grated
hot sauce
juice 1 lime

Here is how you make Olive Couscous Salad:

Make as directed on packaging couscous allow to cool. Mix together the chopped tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, carrots, onions, chicken & olives in large bowl. Stir in the couscous until fully mixed. Make dressing add all ingredients for dressing in bottle or cup, mix well & pour over couscous mixture & stir in well. Chill salad in refrigerator – to allow flavors to develop best eaten 3hrs to 12 hrs later.Makes 14 - 1cup servings Note: chicken can be omitted or substituted for fish. Can also add cilantro or other herbs to the finished salad before chilling. Number of Servings: 14Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MAZ3563.

The nutritional information for Olive Couscous Salad is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 14
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 122.9

• Total Fat: 4.4 g
• Cholesterol: 9.3 mg
• Sodium: 199.2 mg
• Total Carbs: 15.0 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1.6 g
• Protein: 6.0 g