Smoked turkey and couscous rolls

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 tablespoons Olive oil
Salt
½ teaspoon Tumeric
¾ cup Couscous
2 tablespoons Fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon Finely chopped jalapeno
¼ cup Thinly sliced scallion
3 tablespoons Fresh orange juice
3 tablespoons Minced fresh cilantro
Freshly ground black pepper
1 pounds Thinly sliced smoked turkey
1 Avocado, halved, pitted, peeled and cut into thin strips and sprinkled
With lime juice
1 Red bell pepper, cut lengthwise into 1/4-inch strips

Directions

In a small saucepan bring 1 cup water to a boil with 1 tablespoon oil, salt to taste, and tumeric. Stir in the couscous, cover and let stand for 5 minutes. Stir in the remaining 2 tablespoons oil, the lime juice, the jalapeno, the scallion, the orange ju ice, the cilantro, salt and pepper to taste. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature. Press about 2 tablespoons of the couscous mixture in the palm of one hand, forming a log, and arrange it across a short end of 1 turkey slice. Arrange 1 avocado s lice and 1 pepper strip along each side of the log and roll up the couscous, avocado, bell pepper tightly in the turkey. With a sharp knife cut the roll into 1-inch lengths, trimming the ends. Make rolls with the remaining turkey, couscous mixture, avoca do and pepper strips in the same manner. The rolls may be prepared 8 hours in advance and kept wrapped in plastic wrap and chilled.

Yield: about 52 hors d'oeuvres

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8896 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #640 by "Angele and Jon Freeman" <jfreeman@...> on Jun 10, 1997

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