Vegetarian Couscous with Bonamini Olive Oil

An healthy and tasty recipe with Bonamini Olive Oil

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Veggie couscous: the ideal single course for fighting this heat, when you don’t want to turn on the stove but in the meantime you don’t want to give up to something delicious.
Easy, balanced, full of colors and tastes… you can prepare it in advanced and consume it cold as a quick lunch, a last minute dinner or did you know that this easy couscous is always a win when it comes to summer aperitif?
All you have to do is enriching this recipe of veggies couscous with healthy, seasonal and high quality ingredients, to get a different taste every time you try something new or at least everytime you are going to use one of Bonamini’s extravirgin oils. You know it by now, using the correct evo oil is what truly makes the difference, even when preparing something as simple as this vegetarian couscous.

Let’s see how we can customized this recipe of cold veggies couscous with all the olive oils and products from Bonamini.

To prepare the base of our vegetarian couscous, the steps to follow are a few and very easy.
You’ll just have to take the seasonal veggies you like the most, making sure to pick them of different sizes, colors and textures. For example, our favorites to make this easy couscous delicious are zucchini, cherry tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers and onions (don’t forget about basil leaves please); all these veggies can be consumed also raw and this make the vegetarian couscous really the freshest meal of the season!
The only hotter step is right the “cooking” part of the couscous put in quotation marks because this cereal is cooked in a slightly different way than we are used to, in fact it is prepared by absorption. In a bowl put the desired quantity of couscous, season it with salt and spices and cover it with boiling water, close the lid on top and let it rest for about 10 minutes or at least when the cereal will not have absorbed all the liquid. To finish this easy veggies couscous recipe you’ll just have to shell it with a fork and add the cleaned and cutted veggies, mixing all together.
A round of extra virgin olive oil and that’s it!

Let’s get now to the most interesting part… how to flavor this vegetarian couscous?
Spices and infused olive oils are your friends and ally in this mission. We want to share with you our winning combos, all with the same veggies couscous as a base:

for a vegan option, we like to add mixed legumes such as beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils, a sprinkle of curry and cumin and our Garlic Olive Oil
for a pescatarian recipe, add a tartare or carpaccio of raw salmon or tune, ginger either powder or even marinated and a drizzle of Lemon infused evo oil or our Fresh Orange Condiment
for vegetarian eaters, we suggest the combo with fresh ricotta, basil leaves,Pitted Olives in Olive Oil and as finishing oil our Oregano Infused Extra Virgin
for meat lovers instead, we can not forget about our classic grilled chicken or even more easy, some shredded horse meat, topped with saffron, some mustard seeds and a nice touch of our Chilli Olive Oil

And what if you don’t want to add any extra protein source to this veggie couscous?
No problem, this couscous recipe is delicious also just the simple way it is, but a drizzle of nice evo oil can not miss, never.
In this specif case we suggest to use an fruty intense olive oil, such as our Vert De Vertes or Santa Giustina which, with their herbaceous hints of artichoke and rocket and their slight tingling, will give a culinary experience suitable for those who love stronger and more intense flavours. An alternative for those who are used to more mild and delicate flavours, is a medium fruity extra virgin olive oil like our Or De Noires or Valsecca, with a very balanced taste without bitter/spicy peaks, which will give this recipe for couscous with vegetables the classics hints of yellow apple, almond and fresh celery.

The aromas of Bonamini extra virgin olive oils are so varied that they are able to enrich the flavor and quality of even something as simple as a couscous with veggies: try them all to prepare a recipe with an irresistible taste every time, capable of transforming a simple meal into a real culinary experience.