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Category: Soups & Salads | Blog URL: http://www.activefoodie.com/brown-bag-cous-cous-tofu-salad-with-creamy-herb-dressing/09/2009/

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Recipe: Cous Cous Tofu Salad With Creamy Herb Dressing This is a personal recipe and can only be edited by the original author

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Created by: Active Foodie

Edited by: Active Foodie, Sheri Wetherell, Helen Pitlick

Tags: Cous Cous, Easy, Healthy, Salad, Tofu, Whole Wheat

Ingredients

SALAD

1

cup whole wheat cous cous

1 ½

cups chicken stock

1

teas salt

1

red bell pepper

1

cucumber

1

package  firm tofu

½

cup currants

½

cup chopped pecans

4

green onions

DRESSING

1

cup plain low-fat yogurt

1

garlic clove

2

tbls. lemon juice

1

tbls. white wine vinegar

few sprigs of chopped dill

few tbls. chopped basil leaves

salt and pepper

Preparation

Step 1

Bring chicken stock and salt to a boil. Add cous cous. Remove from heat, over and let stand 5 minutes, or until all liquid is absorbed. Fluff with a fork. Let cool.

Step 2

In a large bowl add chopped bell pepper, cucumber, tofu, currants, pecans, green onions and cous cous.

Step 3

For dressing, combine yogurt, lemon juice, vinegar, dill and basil. Grate garlic with a microplane into the mixture. Season with salt and pepper.

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About Cous Cous Tofu Salad With Creamy Herb Dressing

I am always looking for new salad to bring for lunch. I walk aimlessly down the grocery store aisle trying to find inspiration and new produce to throw together and call a salad. This week I rediscovered cous cous. I had been neglecting this great base for far too long. I don’t know why I don’t make it more often. It comes in whole wheat, its versatile, and it cooks in no time flat! The perfect meal base if you ask me!

In Southern California, summer has not ended. With the temperature still reaching in the 90s, I couldn’t help but crave a nice, cool, fresh salad. My walk down the aisle this week yielded me some bell peppers, cucumber and tofu. And to dress this fine, fresh salad? A creamy herb dressing.

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