Recipe: Couscous & Avocado Salad

Ingredients:

2 cups couscous, cooked
6 radishes, thinly sliced
4 cherry tomatoes, sliced
2 tbsp capers
6 olives, sliced
1/4 cup parsley, chopped
1 avocado, cut into cubes
2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped finely
1/3 cup olive oil
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tbsp dijon mustard

Instructions:

1. Combine the couscous and vegetables in a bowl, mix.

2. Combine the vinegar and mustard, wisk until mustard is dissolved. Stir in olive oil. Add salt and pepper to taste.

3. Pour vinegar and oil over couscous and vegetables and mix.

Recipe #1: Salade Nicoise

Salad Nicoise

A simple yet hearty meal. Serves 2.

Ingredients:

2 hard boiled eggs

1 can white tuna

1 cup haricots verts

1/2 cut potato (cut into 1/2-inch cubes, boiled)

1/4 cup kalmata olives

4 cups red leaf lettuce, corsely chopped

Low-fat vinaigrette dressing

Combine tuna fish, haricots verts, olives, and lettuce. Toss with vinaigrette. Add olives, eggs, and potatoes. Add a dash more vinaigrette on top. Enjoy!

(If you're on campus and can't prepare these ingredients yourself, SaladWorks!(r) in the cafeteria has a great alternative: their Nouveau Nicoise salad).

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