Lunch at the Zoo: Tabouleh

Often when we are going on a day trip or a picnic, I'll prepare some kind of tabouleh. A cold 'salad' with couscous or bulghur. One day we were going to the Antwerp Zoo and I thought I'd try to make tabouleh with entire wheat kernels instead. It loved it and the children finished the entire bowl, so I think they agreed ;-).

Lunch @ the Zoo: Tabouleh with cooked entire wheat kernels, lemon juice, chopped celery, spring onions, black olives, raisins and capers (served with hardboiled eggs & sliced cucumber)

Tabouleh with entire wheat kernels

• 1 cup of entire wheat kernels (In Belgium: Ebly)
• 1 bouillon cube
• juice of 1 lemon
• 2 white celery stalks, finely chopped
• 2 spring onions, finely chopped
• a handful of black olives, finely chopped
• a handful of raisins
• 1 tbsp capers
• (salt)
• (black pepper)

- Cook the wheat with the bouilon cube according to the instructions on the packaging (should take about 10 mins). Pour it in a sieve and let cool.

- Once it has cooled down, mix it with the lemon juice, pieces of celery, spring onions and black olives and the raisins and capers and season to taste.

I served this with hardboiled eggs and slices of cucumber, but you could obviously serve it with meat/fish/tofu and/or other fresh vegetables, too.

(Dutch recipe available on demand)