Temple Eating: Kale + Couscous Salad

I squall back hearing Nigella Lawson verbalise close temple nutrient every bit beingness the sort of nutrient you lot consume afterward you've spent likewise much fourth dimension indulging alongside rich foods too belatedly nights. And I tend to intend that this kale too couscous salad would tally nicely every bit an event of temple eating. Want to experience restored? This is your lunch.

Especially afterward Christmas where everyone binges on chocolates, stuffing too a few likewise many cocktails, it's overnice to practise a overnice niggling repast of something that feels virtuous too kind. And I intend that this salad alongside it's vibrant colour too raw healthiness volition become you lot dorsum on the proficient human foot no thing how you've been ringing in the holiday!

And practise I accept to squall that it's delicious to boot? Tangy from the lemon too garlic too the cranberries render a overnice jar of sweetness. The tahini is creamy too the whole wheat couscous adds mass thus you lot don't take away to fill upward up on bread.

Kale & Couscous Salad
1 loving cup whole wheat couscous
1 bunch of kale
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon white vino vinegar
1/3 loving cup dried cranberries
ii tablespoons finely minced onions

ii tablespoons tahini
1.5 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon water
1 garlic clove, finely minced
juice of 1 minor lemon
1/2 teaspoon sirracha (or your favorite hot sauce)
pinch salt

1/3 loving cup sliced almonds, lightly toasted

1. In a minor pot, laid upward the couscous according to bundle directions.

2. While the couscous is cooking, launder kale throughly too pat dry. Remove the thick, bitter stems too acre kale into sparse ribbons. Cut ane time to a greater extent than crosswise ane time or twice thus you lot don't accept large lengths of kale. Pour crude oil too vinegar over meridian too massage this into the kale using your hands, until all the kale is well-coated too shiny. Add cranberries too onions into the kale too toss.

3. Prepare the dressing past times stirring together the remaining ingredients (except the almonds) - you lot may take away to add together a flake to a greater extent than H2O if you lot experience the tahini is seizing up, this is normal tahini behaviour, thus don't worry. Stir until the dressing is creamy too smooth.

4. Fluff couscous when ready too split upward the couscous into iv bowls. Top alongside the kale mixture too thus pour over or thus of the dressing. Sprinkle alongside sliced almonds. Makes iv servings.

By Jeannette Ordas of Everybody likes Sandwiches

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