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This couscous recipe mix the summer flavour of fresh mint with autumn fruits like pomegranate and pistachios: it's the perfect dish for winter solstice, to eat remembering the past seasons.
This is the original recipe from Kevin's Closet Cooking.

Couscous Salad with Pomegranate and Pistachio

Ingredients
Serves four:
150g couscous
half pomegranate
3 tbsp pistachios, toasted
juice from half lemon
30ml olive oil
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
1 tbsp mint leaves
1 tbsp parsley leaves
1 clove garlic
salt and black pepper

Directions
Prepare the vinaigrette with olive oil, lemon juice, minced garlic, mint and parsley, mustard, salt and black pepper.
Cook the couscous normally, season with the vinaigrette, then add pomegranate seeds and chopped pistachios.

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This goes to Salt to Taste - T&T December

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I will host the next edition of T&T.
Tried and Tasted is a monthly event started by Zlamushka.
Bloggers should 'try and taste' recipes from a selected blog.
The logo is created by Ksenia from Tales of a spoon.

The choosen blogger for January edition is Vinolia from Yvelines, France. Her blog, Akal´s Saappadu contains many international and indian recipes: you have only to pick one (or two... or three...), cook it and post about it with the following rules.

- Cook any recipe from Akal´s Saappadu and blog about it. Stay as true to the original recipe as possible. Therefore there is no need for re-posting it, simply link to the original post.
- Link your post to this page and to the original recipe page, so that you can avoid the copyright problems.
- Use of logo is welcome
- Send an email to scrivi@erbeincucina.it with the following details
Your Name
Name of the blog
Name of the recipe
URL of the post
URL of the Original post
Picture of the recipe
- Deadline to the event is 31st January 2010 and the round up will be posted within a week
- Non bloggers are welcome to share their recipes too. Simply email your name and the picture of the recipe.

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