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Heidi's Christmas Cous Cous Salad.

You can have Heidi's Christmas Cous Cous Salad using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Heidi's Christmas Cous Cous Salad

1. Prepare 2 cup of cous cous.
2. You need 2 cup of chicken or vegetable stock.
3. You need 1 tbsp of butter.
4. It's 1/2 of spanish/red onion, finely diced.
5. It's 3 of cloves garlic, crushed.
6. Prepare 1 of juice of 2-3 lemons.
7. Prepare 4 tbsp of olive oil, extra virgin.
8. It's 1/3 cup of pistachio nuts, roughly chopped.
9. Prepare 1/2 cup of craisins (dried cranberries).
10. Prepare 1/4 of bunch mint, roughly chopped.

Heidi's Christmas Cous Cous Salad instructions

1. Bring stock to boil, take off heat and add in cous cous. Allow to sit for 5 minutes to absorb all liquid, add in the butter and fluff up with a fork and set aside.
2. Mix together the garlic, lemon juice and olive oil.
3. Place the cous cous in a bowl, stir through pistachios, craisins, onion and mint and as you're stirring it, drizzle through the juice mixture. Serve as a tasty side. Note: it's super quick if you crush the garlic in the food processor, followed with the onion and then the nuts.
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