Here's a great accompaniment for roast chicken or the perfect side dish to bring to a potluck feast.
Ingredients
Makes 6 servings
Step 1
Bring broth to boil in small saucepan. Mix couscous, 1 teaspoon salt, and olive oil in medium bowl. Pour boiling broth over couscous mixture. Stir, then cover with plastic wrap. Let stand 15 minutes.
Step 2
Using vegetable peeler, remove peel (orange part only) of clementines; chop peel. Remove any remaining pith from clementines and cut flesh into 1/4-inch pieces. Combine chopped peel and flesh in small bowl and set aside.
Step 3
Bring chickpeas with liquid to boil in saucepan. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until chickpeas are heated through, about 3 minutes. Drain chickpeas. Gently fluff couscous with fork. Add chickpeas, olives, dates, mint, and clementines. Stir to incorporate evenly. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Nutrition Per Serving
To remove any remaining bitter white pith from clementine peel, lay the peel, orange side down, on a work surface and use a small sharp knife to cut off any pith.
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Reviews (13)
Back to TopDisappointed. Made it exactly as stated. Nothing special.
jsbjk
Winnetka, IL
7/21/2017
太好了。我对自己很容易,买了diced dates, a jar of mixed gourmet olives, and mandarin oranges, then zested some orange rind. Cooking the couscous in some broth really imbues it with great flavor. It's great on its own for vegans (if you use veggie broth) but I also added feta. A keeper.
lekaty
Vallejo CA
9/1/2015
Had some issues with this one. First the vegetable peeler didn't work on the thin skin of my clementines so I used a microplane but I'm not sure there was enough flavor doing it this way. Next the chopped dates clumped when they hit the heat, so I'd recommend really sprinkling them while mixing. Didn't appreciate the olives, just another soft-textured addition that didn't complement the rest. Maybe toasted pine nuts instead of the olives and chickpeas would give a better effect?
theresasf
1/29/2013
oh and just to add- I followed the below users' advice and just grated the oranges and used the zest instead of chopping up the peel. ALSO used BLOOD ORANGES instead.
appetita
7/30/2012
Absolutely phenomenal. Served as a side at a bbq. Vegan, vegetarian, and still delicious even for carnivores. Sweet, salty, great crunchy texture- but then the cooked chickpeas at a great creaminess. SUPER EASY TO THROW TOGETHER and DELISH!!!!! could not recommend more. Leftovers great for an easy lunch/dinner served over steamed greens. yum.
appetita
los angeles
7/30/2012
this dish is delicious. only change i made was to grate the clementine peel rather than cut it up into little pieces. and i couldnt find plain couscous in my grocery store, so i used seasoned-though i added seasoning pack at the end after first tasting. it is now mid-afternoon, and im going to have a very difficult time waiting until dinner time to eat this all up. i want it NOW. i also gave a taste to my husband to test for the right amount of salt and pepper. he also thought it was extremely good.
Anonymous
philadelphia, pa
1/4/2011
I liked this recipe but I have some changes that I would make to this recipe- the clementines didn't work for me- next time I'll drain a can of mandarin oranges and add a little lemon zest. I loved the dates but I think a few more would make it even better or I would add the same amount of dates and add raisins or currants. I liked the olives but next time I would also add some black olives for a little more color.
Anonymous
Washington, DC
4/5/2010
This is both easy and yummy. Just a really lovely side dish for many different dishes and I will absolutely make it again.
CecilieM
Bonn
2/13/2010
Really delicious combination of flavors. My kids don't like couscous and they inhaled this. I think it would be a great summer dish, too.
Munacil
Wauwatosa, WI
2/4/2010
I doubled the clementines, and was happy how this turned out. The leftovers made a great lunch the next day, to which I added a can of tuna, steamed spinach and some grape tomatoes to make it a little more substantial.
jccooks
chicago, il
1/6/2010
I made this last night and it was a hit! No one in my family is a fan of couscous, but we all loved this dish and can't wait to make it again. I'm not a fan of olives, so I left them out. I saved some time by not removing all the pith from the clementines, and that didn't seem to be a problem. Next time I will save some work by just zesting the clemintines instead of peeling them and chopping the peel.
189menlo
12/31/2009
Tried this last night - peeling the clementines is tedious - I wound up using 1 instead of three peels and it was delicious. Make sure you cut the peel fairly small. I also used prunes instead of dates. I would make is again but might use pitted olives and grate the peel to save time.
marinagal
San Francisco
12/21/2009
This easy to make dish is awesome. Great flavor combination of sweet and salty. Didn't clean all the pith off the small clementine sections but no one seemed to care.
jrsbaking
Chicago, il
12/18/2009
