What exciting things can I do with couscous?

Gingernutmeg

I often add a little bit of harissa paste - it's a Middle Eastern blend of spices and chilles - hot but tasty! The nicest I've found is Belazu, and the jars last for ages. On the same vein I'll sometimes add some Ras-el-Hanout, another Middle Eastern spice blend, or a good Cajun spice blend, depending on what I'm serving it with.

Sometimes I'll just add a stock cube and some dried mixed herbs, to add a bit of flavour and colour, or some chopped veggies, like tomato or peppers.

dorsetmiss_2

Add a bit of turmeric to liven up the colour.....lemon and mint is a good combo if using as a salad type thingy...and any of the following...dried apricots, currants, raisins, sultanas, almonds are especially good if having with a lamb stew type of thing...

morganb

It's really nice as a salad with chopped tomatoes and cucumber and a yoghurt and mint dressing ... yum yum

johnlincoln

dried chilli flakes and dried mint. or chilli flakes and lemon zest.
the cup a soup works well but is full of enumbers.
you can also cook it using orange juice instead of water.

belfastgirl23

I had some leftover tomato juice the last time I was making it and threw that in as the stock along with some leftover roast peppers. I thought it was nice. I'd say experiment with different stocks, fried veg etc and if all else fails and it doesn't taste nice fling in a bit of chilli powder to perk it up.

rls1973

dorsetmiss wrote:

Add a bit of turmeric to liven up the colour.....lemon and mint is a good combo if using as a salad type thingy...and any of the following...dried apricots, currants, raisins, sultanas, almonds are especially good if having with a lamb stew type of thing...

also, if using the currants/raisins/sultanas/almonds/dried apricots as above, try adding cinnamon to the mix (or maybe mixed spice or nutmeg?)very tasty.

(i think i've seen a biscuit recipe using this mix with couscous but i'm not sure where sorry).

Horasio

I use stock powder mixed into the dry couscous and mix with hot water.

You can have it sweet as well, a bit like rice or quinoa. I know someone who has it with yoghurt.

Pink.

Hi carinska,

We have an older thread with lots of cous cous ideas so I've merged your thread with it as it helps to keep all the suggestions together.

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Cazza

I often have cous cos at work for lunch. I get the Tesco Lemon and Corander one, it does for two lunches. Add some cherry tomatoes, cucumber, black olives and feta cheese. Yum!

EagerLearner

Can cous cous be frozen?

Like others, I buy the cheap Sainsburys pre-flavoured packs, but have not bought a bag of plain cous cous in the interests of money saving.

Would like to make up a large batch and freeze, presume that's ok?