Side Dish Recipe ☆ Lemon Couscous

This is light and fresh and accompanies fish (i.e. habanero-lime butter grilled salmon) and chicken well. It is a refreshing change to the rice or potato side dish, and everyone always loves it.

Ingredients

• 1 cup chicken broth
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon lemon zest
• 1 tablespoon butter
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ⅓ cup couscous
• 1 (2 ounce) jar sliced pimento peppers, drained
• 2 tablespoons toasted pine nuts
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

Cooking Directions

1. Stir chicken broth, lemon juice, lemon zest, butter, and salt together in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Add couscous to the liquid and stir to coat completely. Place a cover on the saucepan, remove from heat, and let couscous soak in hot liquid until the moisture is mostly absorbed, about 5 minutes.
2. Fluff couscous with a fork. Stir pimento peppers, pine nuts, and parsley into the couscous.

Nutrition Facts

• calories224.6
• carbohydrateContent33.2 g
• cholesterolContent11.8 mg
• fatContent7.2 g
• fiberContent2.9 g
• proteinContent7 g
• saturatedFatContent2.9 g
• sodiumContent549.4 mg
• sugarContent1.4 g