Mediterranean Couscous

Feel like something really easy to do, very fast and can be adapted with whatever ingredients you have at hand... This is one of my favourites when I don't know what to do or when I do not have time. Can be served as a main course or as a side salad.

Ingredients:

460ml stock (or stock powder dissolved in water)

300g couscous

quater cup raisins

1 ts tumeric

1 small chillie chopped

1 ts sage

1 ts thyme

400g Chick peas boiled and drained (or 1 can)

8 chopped sundried tomatoes

2 chopped peppered gozitan cheeslets (gbejniet tal bzar)

1 tbs capers

1 chopped pickled onion (basla tal-pikles)

Olive Oil

Method:

In a small pan, bring the stock to a boil (or dissolve the stock powder in boiling water).

Add the raisins, tumeric, chillies, sage and thyme to the stock and stir.

As soon as it starts to boil, turn off the heat, add the couscous, stir once and cover for 5 min.

In the meantime, chop the sundried tomatoes, the pickled onion and the cheeslets.

After the 5min, add some olive oil to the couscous fluff with a fork.

In a mixing bowl, add the couscous and the rest of the ingredients.

Mix and serve.

You can also garnish with some chopped almonds.

Enjoy.