Couscous Fruit Salad

Couscous simmered with dates, raisins, and dried cranberries is a sweet accompaniment to pork or a nice fruit salad for brunch.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 20 mins
• Total Time: 30 mins
• Calories: 236 Calories

Ingredients

• ½ cup golden raisins
• 2 ¼ cups water
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 teaspoon olive oil, or as needed
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh cilantro, or more to taste
• 6 dates, pitted and chopped
• 5 green onions, white parts only, chopped, or more to taste
• ½ (6 ounce) package sweetened dried cranberries (such as Craisins®)
• ¼ cup shelled peanuts
• 1 ½ cups pearl (Israeli) couscous
• 1 mango, peeled and chopped

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; saute onion and garlic until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Add water to onion mixture and bring to a boil.

Step 2

Stir dates, cranberries, raisins, and peanuts into onion mixture and bring to a boil again. Add couscous and cilantro to dried fruit-onion mixture; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover skillet, and simmer until water is mostly absorbed, 10 to 15 minutes.

Step 3

Stir mango into couscous mixture, return cover, and simmer until all the water is absorbed and couscous is tender, about 5 more minutes.