Recipe: Tasty Couscous

Couscous. Couscous is a North African dish made from tiny steamed balls of semolina flour. It is actually a type of pasta. Couscous (from the Berber word k'seksu ) is the staple product of North Africa and the national dish Couscous spread from this area, where it originated, to Libya, Mauritania, Egypt, and sub-Saharan.

Made from semolina wheat, couscous is nutty, sweet, and versatile — it also happens to be incredibly quick-cooking. Couscous, a small type of pasta, is made from crushed and steamed durum wheat. North Africans use couscous the same way many cultures use rice. You can cook Couscous using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Couscous

1. Prepare of Merguez.
2. You need of Pois chiches cuits.
3. Prepare of Poulet.
4. You need of Boulettes viandre hachee coriandre.
5. Prepare of Carottes.
6. It's of Courgettes.
7. It's of Onion.
8. You need of Navets.
9. Prepare of Chou.
10. It's of Ras al hanout.
11. It's of Harissa.
12. Prepare of caldo poulet.
13. You need of Semoule.
14. It's of Huile.
15. You need of Beurre.
16. Prepare of Tomates.

It is popular in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. Couscous is a convenient product to have stocked in the pantry as an easy and fast alternative to rice, quinoa, and noodles. When cooked they look like golden spheres that have a pleasant nutty flavor. Couscous makes for a quick, healthy side dish that becomes fluffy when cooked, but is chewy and firm in texture.

Couscous instructions

1. Griller la viande dans la cocotte a couscous, une fois dorée, la sortir. Mettre les oignons coupés avec un peu d'huile, une fois dorés, ajouter le ras al hanout, en bonne quantité, faire dorer un peu plus, ajouter le tomate, et après tous les légumes dures coupés, faire dorer un peu et après ajouter le caldo.
2. Une fois commencé a bien chauffer, mettre la viande et laisser 1h. A 20min avant la fin, ajouter les courgettes et chou, et les pois chiches.
3. Preparer la semoule en ajoutant la même quantité d'eau bouillante avec huile, laisser 5min, ajouter beurre et egrainer avec fourchette.
4. Servir tout avec harissa dans un bol a côté..

It's great for a simple side, an easy salad, or even stuffed in vegetables. Filling, fast, cheap and healthy, what's not to love about couscous? Make the most of this speedy after-work staple in Moroccan-style tagines, tabbouleh and more. Learn how to perfectly prepare couscous for a light and dynamic meal with Food Network's chefs. It tastes so good they named it twice.

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