Pasta & Rice

Couscous

Name: Couscous
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Israeli
Ingredients: 2 cups couscous; 2 cups boiling water; 1 tsp salt

Fine couscous soaked in boiling liquid (water or stock), covered for a few minutes off the heat and fluffed into grains with a fork.

⏱ 10 min

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👨‍🍳 Method

1
Bring the liquid and salt to a boil and pour it over the couscous.
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2
Cover 5 minutes and fluff the grains with a fork.
💡Fluff with a fork, not a spoon: a fork separates the grains, and a spoon mashes them into clumps.

325calories

11 gprotein

63 gcarbs

0 gfat

● protein 15%● carbs 84%● fat 2%

Per serving (208 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

Couscous: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 173 g · 376 kcal per 100 g · More about Couscous →
Boiling water: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 240 g · 0 kcal per 100 g · More about Boiling water →
Salt: measured in tsp in this recipe: 1 tsp = 6 g · 0 kcal per 100 g · More about Salt →

🔧 Tools needed (2) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)

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🧩 Parts

Roasted Vegetables (optional): Roasted Vegetables · Oven-roasted vegetables · Whole Oven-Roasted Vegetable · Grilled Vegetables · Oven-Roasted Rosemary Potatoes

⚙️ What you can change

Possible additions: Boiling water · From the stew's stock (cup and a quarter) · olive oil · butter · Sugar (sweet couscous) · salt · Olive oil after fluffing · Lemon juice · Cinnamon · Raisins · Toasted almonds · Mint · Parsley · Serving (hot) · Cardamom · Rose water · Walnuts · Powdered sugar on top · Toasted almonds on top · Dried apricots · Dried fruit soaked in hot water (minutes) (10) · Sugar after fluffing · Honey on top · Some of the oil with the liquid, the rest for the garlic (tbsp) · Garlic fried in the rest of the oil · Sun-dried tomatoes · basil · Black pepper at the end
Which of the stew's liquids: of the stock