{"id":51799,"date":"2018-09-11T17:36:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T21:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/?p=51799"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:51:28","slug":"apple-rosemary-couscous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/apple-rosemary-couscous\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Rosemary Couscous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This hearty recipe takes a famous side and makes it the main course.<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-51844\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Untitled-design31.png\" alt=\"Untitled design(31)\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Untitled-design31.png 680w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Untitled-design31-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Untitled-design31-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Untitled-design31-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>What You&#8217;ll Need<\/strong><br \/>\n1 tablespoon olive oil<br \/>\n3\/4 cup chopped onion<br \/>\n3 cloves garlic, minced<br \/>\nOne 13-3\/4-ounce can reduced sodium or regular single strength chicken broth<br \/>\n1 teaspoon dried rosemary OR 2 teaspoons fresh rosemary<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon black pepper<br \/>\n1 cup NEAR EAST\u00ae Original Plain Couscous<br \/>\n1\/3 cup currants or raisins<br \/>\n2 medium tart red apples, cut into 1\/2-inch pieces, unpeeled<\/p>\n<p><strong>What To Do<\/strong><br \/>\nIn large saucepan, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; cook 2 or 3 minutes, stirring constantly, or until onion is translucent.<br \/>\nAdd broth, rosemary and pepper; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium; cook 5 minutes.<br \/>\nStir in couscous and currants; cover and remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes. Fluff couscous lightly with a fork. Gently stir in apples; cover and let stand 3 minutes. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Done in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/freshdirect.com\/srch.jsp?pageType=search&amp;searchParams=near+east&amp;pageSize=30&amp;all=false&amp;activePage=1&amp;sortBy=Sort_Relevancy&amp;orderAsc=true&amp;activeTab=product\">Near East<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hearty recipe takes a famous side and makes it the main course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69275,"featured_media":51844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2736,1621,1601,2737,2732],"tags":[3009,3010],"class_list":["post-51799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinner-recipes-2","category-easy-diy","category-easy-entertaining","category-lunch-recipes-2","category-recipes","tag-couscous","tag-near-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83369,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51799\/revisions\/83369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}