" TABOULE ORIENTAL ", a Good starter !

Recipe for the Oriental Taboulé ...

Enjoy your Meal and Greetings to All ! ... Toni Mi...

"In the country of Taboulé " : Palm-trees ...

INGREDIENTS :

- 500 g [1 lb] Palestine maftoul couscous

- 25 cl [9 fl oz] Laos orange-juice

- 75 g [3 oz] South African sultanas

- Palestine olive-oil

- 1 cucumber

- 1 (sweet) red pepper

- 1 green pepper

- 4 tomatoes

- 3 lemon juice

- 1 pinch of salt

- a few fresh mint leaves

This RECIPE is from ARTISANS DU MONDE whose main role is to promote FAIR TRADE.

IF you can work out a FAIR RECIPE, it's better! Ingredients will come from Palestine, Laos, and South Africa …

Or from other developing countries that export these ingredients via the Fair Trade network; poor-country farmers will make more money…

And, if you can't work out a FAIR RECIPE : Spanish, French, Italian olive-oil… Spanish orange-juice and sultanas… will help you prepare a Good "Taboulé" as well !!!

1. Soak sultanas in orange-juice.

2. Pour couscous into salad-dish, spread lemon-juice all over, add salt pinch and mix (it’s the lemon-juice that swells couscous semolina…)

Add sultanas and mix again.

3. Sweeten orange-juice using sugar when too acid and pour it into salad-dish.

4. Wash and chop vegetables into very small cubes (0.5 cm side = 0.2 in.) and add to salad-dish.

Stir well, add olive-oil and let it settle. Refresh in fridge.

5. One hour before meal, add a few mint-leaves previously washed and finely chopped, to spread taste throughout taboulé.

Season (as per taste) and… savor fresh !

6) VERY WELL !!! ... NICE !!! ...

VERY WELL !!!

In a few minutes' Cuisine… You've prepared a starter…

Fresh, Nice and Delicious !!!

And now : "Meal's reeeady !!! ..."

ENJOY YOUR MEAL , TO EVERYBODY !!! .... ToniMi ...