Couscous Fruit Salad

Ingredients

• 6  dates pitted chopped
• 1 teaspoon cilantro leaves fresh chopped to taste
• 4 cloves garlic crushed
• 0.5 cup golden raisins 
• 5  green onions chopped to taste
• 1  mangos peeled chopped
• 1 teaspoon olive oil or as needed
• 0.3 cup peanuts shelled
• 1.5 cups pearl couscous (Israeli)
• 6 ounce cranberries dried sweetened craisins® (such as )
• 2.3 cups water 

Equipment

• frying pan

Directions

1. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; saute onion and garlic until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes.
2. Add water to onion mixture and bring to a boil.
3. Stir dates, cranberries, raisins, and peanuts into onion mixture and bring to a boil again.
4. Add couscous and cilantro to dried fruit-onion mixture; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover skillet, and simmer until water is mostly absorbed, 10 to 15 minutes.
5. Stir mango into couscous mixture, return cover, and simmer until all the water is absorbed and couscous is tender, about 5 more minutes.