Your Best Summer Squash Recipe: Summer Squash Couscous with Sultanas, Pistachios and Mint

sultanas

🥗Healthier: raisins

💰Cheaper: dried cranberries

Raisins and cranberries provide similar sweetness at a lower cost.

pistachios

🥗Healthier: walnuts

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Walnuts are healthier, while sunflower seeds are more affordable.

Prepare a dressing with lemon zest, 3 crushed garlic cloves, and honey; whisk together and let infuse.

Boil vegetable stock in a pot.

In a sauté pan, heat olive oil and add chopped shallot, diced zucchini, yellow squash, sultanas, and a couple of pinches of salt; warm through briefly.

Fluff couscous with a fork after cooking in vegetable stock, then add it to the sauté pan with the vegetables.

Toss the couscous and vegetables together, adding the dressing gradually to avoid sogginess.

Fold in fresh mint and serve.

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