This is a fantastic and delicious recipe that I know you will love. To taste, check the seasonings. This tastes strongly like wine and garlic. When using a cooking wine do not add salt because there’s salt already in the cooking wine. You can try sherry in place of the white wine. Top with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 25 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup couscous
- ⅔ cup chopped kalamata olives, liquid reserved
- ⅔ cup diced red bell pepper
- ½ cup diced sun-dried tomatoes, oil reserved
- 1 (4 ounce) package crumbled feta cheese
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley, or to taste
Instructions
- Bring water to a boil in a saucepan. Remove from the heat, and stir in couscous. Cover and let stand for 10 minutes, then fluff with a fork. Set aside to cool slightly.
- Mix olives, red bell pepper, sun-dried tomatoes, and couscous together in a bowl. Stir about 1 tablespoon liquid from olives and 1 tablespoon oil from sun-dried tomatoes into the couscous mixture until moistened. Add more oil as needed. Fold in feta cheese; sprinkle with parsley.
- Add diced chicken for an easy main dish. This also makes excellent leftovers, both cold and hot.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 190 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 23 g |
| Cholesterol | 17 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 7 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 555 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I did not have the sun dried tomatoes , so I added regular tomatoes, still good, simple recipe and tasty.
Love this! The first time I couldn’t figure out if the recipe meant 1 Cup before or after cooking the couscous. Second time I just added as much as I wanted. I also added some olive salad I had on hand that had cauliflower, celery, and capers. It added some zing.
Very easy to make…followed instructions first time but second making I sorta played it by ear, so to speak, and just threw it together. Came out even lovelier. My friend at work thought it was delicious-and I had her try both versions.
I made this for a company pitch-in, added some diced garlic stuffed olives and diced red onion. I used very little dressing, the oil from the sundried tomatoes and just a little of the kalamata olives is all you need. Will be making this again for family get togethers.
So easy! Love it
it was really good i altered it a bit i used a little less on the olives added some salt and pepper and i also didn’t use the red bell pepper but it was a really good dish.
I chopped an equivalent amount of peppercinis instead of bell pepper(food allergy), very good and a little spicy.
I used diced tomatoes instead of sun-dried and added some chicken to it to make it a whole one dish meal. I also added chopped up artichoke hearts, onions, and sweet peppers. Great and even better the next day cold. Thanks for sharing.
Pretty good and very easy. I used whole wheat couscous, and didn’t have sundried tomatoes (although i’m sure they would be awesome in this recipe). I just used some fresh tomato, and then added oregano and basil, along with a little EVOO. Will definitely be making this fast dish again.