Couscous is great for kids packed lunches because you can add so many different things to it. It’s a bit like pasta – it changes flavour depending on the ingredients you serve it with.
Ingredients
- 100g couscous
- 100ml hot chicken stock or water
- ½ can tuna in sunflower oil, drained
- Handful stoned black olives, finely chopped
- 4 cherry tomatoes, finely chopped
For the dressing
- Freshly squeezed juice of ½ lemon
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp honey
Method
- 1. Put the couscous in a bowl, pour over the hot stock or water, cover and leave for 10 minutes. Once the grains of couscous have absorbed all the liquid, fluff them up with a fork. Stir in the tuna, olives and tomatoes.
- 2. Place all the ingredients for the dressing in a screw-top jar, secure the lid and shake together. Stir into the couscous. Transfer to a plastic container and chill until ready to take to school.