Vegetable Couscous with Raisins--Easy, Delicious and Kid-Friendly!

Vegetable Couscous with Raisins–Easy and Delicious!

This vegetable couscous recipe is super easy, and the addition of raisins helps make it kid-friendly!  It also contains turmeric, which has many healing properties, such as reducing inflammation, and treating digestive problems.  Click here to learn more about research on the health effects of turmeric.  We often include turmeric in our herbal formulas at the clinic. 

Ingredients:

1 Tbsp  Olive Oil

1/4  C onion, chopped

2-4 cloves of garlic

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp turmeric

1/4 tsp black pepper

1 1/4 C vegetable  broth

1/4 C  chopped carrots (Tip–Use bagged baby carrots.  They’re already washed and pealed.  Just put a few in a row, chop ‘em up, and you’ll get perfect little round bits.)

1 small zucchini, diced

1 small summer squash, diced

1 15 oz.. can garbanzo beans, washed and drained

3/4 C raisins

1 1/4 C quick-cooking couscous

Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Heat olive oil in deep saucepan on medium high heat.  Add onion, garlic, cinnamon, turmeric and black pepper until onion and garlic soften.  Add vegetable broth carrots, zucchini, summer squash, garbanzo beans and raisins.  Stir to mix.  Let cook for approximately 10 minutes, or until vegetables are soft.  Mix couscous in with vegetables.  Turn heat down to low, cover and let cook for 5 minutes.  Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Enjoy!

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Family Acupuncture & Herbs of Reading provides acupuncture treatments, Chinese herbal formulas and holistic health coaching services.  We specialize in treating a variety of conditions, including women's health issues, chronic pain conditions, infertility and weight loss.  Visit us on the Reading/Wakefield line at 591 North Ave., Door 1, Wakefield, MA.