Add an Asian twist to your family's Middle Eastern cuisine night! Serve couscous cooked in coconut milk and flavored with curry powder as a side dish - ready in 20 minutes!
Curried Coconut Couscous
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 20 min
- Servings 6
- Ingredients 11
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced (1/2 cup)
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon grated gingerroot
- 3/4 cup chicken or vegetable broth
- 1/2 cup canned reduced-fat coconut milk (not cream of coconut)
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Dash ground red pepper (cayenne)
- 1 cup uncooked whole wheat couscous
- 1/3 cup golden raisins
Instructions
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Step1In 2-quart saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion, garlic and gingerroot; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
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Step2Stir in broth, coconut milk, curry powder, salt and red pepper. Heat to boiling. Stir in couscous and raisins. Remove from heat. Cover; let stand 5 minutes. Uncover; fluff with fork.
Nutrition
140
Calories
2 1/2g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
25g
Total Carbohydrate
4g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 140
- Calories from Fat
- 20
- Total Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 4%
- Saturated Fat
- 1g
- 5%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 180mg
- 7%
- Potassium
- 95mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 25g
- 8%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 10%
- Sugars
- 4g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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