You want a side that sits next to the grill without disappearing into the background. This pearl couscous salad<\/strong> is toasted couscous, ripe mango, little bocconcini balls, three cucumbers, and more fresh herbs than most people would dare put in one bowl. It’s cold, it’s loud, and at every potluck I’ve brought it to, it’s the first thing to run out.<\/p>\n Here’s the part almost every recipe skips. Give the dry pearls three or four minutes in olive oil over medium heat, stirring, until they turn the colour of a graham cracker and start smelling like hazelnuts. Then cook them in vegetable broth<\/strong> instead of salted water. Two small changes, and the couscous stops being filler. It actually holds its own against the mango and the cheese instead of just carrying them around.<\/p>\n It goes with anything off the grill. Chicken, steak, skewers, ribs, salmon. Add a protein and it’s a full meal on a Tuesday. And unlike most salads, this one is better the next day<\/strong>, because the couscous keeps drinking the lemon and the olive oil while it sits in the fridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \ud83e\udd6d Pearl couscous salad. The bowl that comes home empty You want a side that sits next to the grill without disappearing into the background. This pearl couscous salad is toasted couscous, ripe mango, little bocconcini balls, three cucumbers, and more fresh herbs than most people would dare put in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"pearl couscous salad","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Pearl couscous salad with mango and bocconcini","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Toasted pearl couscous salad with ripe mango, bocconcini and three fresh herbs. A cold summer side that travels well to any potluck.","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"recipe_category":[165,167,168,178,173,186],"sponsorship":[],"class_list":["post-1046","recipe","type-recipe","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","recipe_category-lunches-en","recipe_category-main-dishes","recipe_category-rice","recipe_category-sides","recipe_category-salads-bowls","recipe_category-vegetarian"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\ud83d\udd25 Toast the pearls first, then cook them in broth<\/h3>\n
\ud83c\udf3f Side tonight, lunch tomorrow<\/h3>\n