What exciting things can I do with couscous?

crana999

Has anyone got any good recipes for cous cous? I do like the flavoured ones you can get in packets, but I haven't had them for ages.. and it's probably quite a lot cheaper to make your own?

Pink.

I use boiling water flavoured with a a stock cube to cook the cous-cous. Then stir in mint sauce (amount depends on your taste). Serve with lamb cutlets and oven roasted vegetables (courgettes, peppers, mushrooms and garlic drizzled with olive oil).

If your doing it for a special occasion.......mould cous-cous into a mound in the middle of the plate (I use a sugar bowl for this) and alternate three lamb cutlets leaning on the mound with small piles of roasted veg.

Hope this makes sense.

Pink

crana999

That sounds nice. Won't be cooking that exact meal any time soon, as I don't eat meat and don't have an oven.. which is a shame because oven roasted veg would be lovely with it. I wonder what else would be good with it? Maybe a vegetable tagine type thing? I can't fry anything either and I don't have a grill, so I can't do any kind of veggie burger type things..

vanoonoo

cous cous and chickpeas is a good combo - and you could microwave things like peppers or courgettes to soften them, mmmm. making me hungry thinking about it

yum.

happy-L

there is a nice recipe on one of the feta cheese bottles you buy in the shops

sonic

happy-L wrote:

there is a nice recipe on one of the feta cheese bottles you buy in the shops

Cheese in a bottle?? That just sounds wrong!

Bordera

Try chopping some veg, corgette mushroons, brocolli, anything really, melt a little oil or butter in the heaviest pan you have, add the veg and cook to your taste.
Make the cous cous separately according to the directions, but use veg stock for the liquid.
Quick, easy, and very yum. Experiment to get the flabvours you prefer.

maggie1976

Ooh I love cous cous! There are lots of things you can do to jazz it up. If you use the same ratio of cous cous to water that you find on the packets of the pre-flavoured stuff then you end up with the right consistency.

I use any mixture of the following:

chopped spring onions
toasted pine nuts
cumin powder (or crushed cumin seeds)
saffron strands (pricey though )
lemon juice (lots of!)

Roasted veggies are very nice with it, if you have a gas hob you can 'roast' peppers in the flame if you hold them with some BBQ tongs or similar. Bung the pepper in a plastic bag for 10 minutes then you can peel off the charred skin and voila!

Or, you could serve it with ratatouille which would be delish!

Cor, I'm hungry now

Maggie.

Lillibet_2

I like lemon cous cous (flavour with juice & rind of a lemon) with fish, throw in a handful of sulatanas if you are feeling adventuerous. Especially good with grilled salmon, steamed cod. grilled fresh sardines, grilled mackerel or steamed trout.

billieboy_2

Soak 8oz couscous in 14 fl oz boiling water mixed with a teaspoon of vegetable stock powder. Cover with cling film for just four minutes.

Chop 6oz mushrooms and half a bunch of spring onions, halve 250g cherry toms (sorry to mix imperial with metric but doing this off the top of my head). When couscous has finished soaking fluff up with a fork and stir in 1-2 tabs olive oil and 2-3 tabs pesto. Mix in veg and add a handful of pine nuts toasted or not. I prefer it cold but you can eat it warm. Delicious with fish! Yum yum.

Trow

yes, I go with the chickpeas suggestion - make a chickpea stew moroccan style - whith whatever veg and tinned tomatoes and cumin and a little nutmeg. Some creamed cocnut for a luxrious touch. Yum!