Couscous Gourmet

This meal will satisfy anyone and appeal to the biggest food critic with a few simple tricks!

Step: 1

Bring water to a boil in a saucepan and stir in couscous. Bring back to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover the pan, and simmer couscous until water is absorbed, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to stand covered for about 5 more minutes to let couscous dry.

Step: 2

Stir butter and 1 teaspoon basil lightly into couscous until butter is melted; set couscous aside.

Step: 3

Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir asparagus, zucchini, red bell pepper, and garlic in the hot oil until the vegetables are tender and just starting to brown, about 10 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.

Step: 4

Pack the couscous tightly into a measuring cup or bowl; place serving platter face down on top of the cup, invert the platter, and remove cup to turn couscous out onto the platter in a rounded shape.

Step: 5

Arrange cooked vegetables around the mound of couscous; place 1 sprig of basil in center of couscous to serve.

Per Serving: 399 calories; protein 15.8g; carbohydrates 67.3g; fat 11.2g; cholesterol 13.4mg; sodium 44.9mg.

Depriving yourself can lead to lot of eat , late-night snacking, and mindless eats and it’s for this reason that Riner encourages people to indulge in “fun” foods every once in a while.

Avoidance on late-night snacking and cravings , it is much necessary to include some fun foods (or what one may perceive as unnecessary ). Meaning , if we can be order the healthiest thing on the menu but come home and graze on chips, perhaps we really wanted the junk food and should have just pleased it in the first place."

Because it comes to eat on evening , overeating or eating too much of the bad item of food will make lead to trouble on sleeping. On the other side, a meal that is not eating to much food than satiating can leave you want more and resulting in reaching for an unhealthy late-night side dish even closer to sleep .