When I make couscous, it's usually as a side for Pete and a main meal for me. Mainly because I don't really care for stews or any soupy or gravied anything mucking up my nice fluffy couscous.
This version is mild but flavourful because I used vegetable stock to cook the couscous rather than water. Extra fillip added to the process because the bell peppers I used are home-grown!
Yes, I grew them myself, and the plants are currently in the conservatory, leaves drooping a little in the cold. They are there as a sort of experiment to see if:
1. I can keep them alive over the winter.
2. Will they bear fruit again next summer (oh such woeful ignorance of growing things *sigh*) - assuming, of course, that they survive the winter.
Time will tell. I'll keep y'all updated. Please to pretend interest.
Recipe for: Red pepper couscous
Ingredients:
1.5 cups couscous
Enough hot water (or stock) to cook the couscous as per directions on the pack
2 tsp olive oil
4 small bell peppers (or 1 large)
1medium onion
1/4 cup coriander leaves, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
1. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the chopped onions till they soften.
2. Add the chopped bell peppers, stir them in and cook for 3-4 minutes.
3. Now add the chopped coriander and stir it in, along with salt and pepper to taste.
4. Pour in the hot stock/water and bring it back up to a bubbling boil.
5. Add the couscous now,
stirring so that it does not become lumpy.
6. Let it simmer for 2-3 minutes, then turn off the heat and cover the pan tightly. Let the couscous sit covered for 15 minutes. Then fluff it up with a fork, check for seasoning and serve.
2 comments:
wow! its gud one....
"now all my 3 readers" - why are you ignoring the other readers, now?
i am still skeptical about couscous, isnt it like the gothuma rava upma texture?
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