Couscous Fruit Salad
8 servings
Ingredients
1 teaspoon olive oil, or as needed
5 green onions, white parts only, chopped, or more to taste
4 cloves garlic, crushed
2 1/4 cups water
6 dates, pitted and chopped
1/2 (6 ounce) package sweetened dried cranberries (such as Craisins®)
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/4 cup shelled peanuts
1 1/2 cups pearl (Israeli) couscous
1 teaspoon chopped fresh cilantro, or more to taste
1 mango, peeled and chopped
Instructions
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.
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.
Stir mango into couscous mixture, return cover, and simmer until all the water is absorbed and couscous is tender, about 5 more minutes.
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