Are your dinners becoming boring and routine? Would you like to add some new spice to your family table? Try couscous.
A grain easy for babies learning to self feed and wonderful addition as a sidedish to soak delicious stews and soups couscous is often overlooked in the grocery store.
Couscous, as familiar to the Middle East as potatoes are to the United States couscous is a pasta made from the Semolina grain.
It is made into the familiar pasta by being rubbed together with water which creates little pellets that cook very easy much like pasta.
Even easier.
The initial couscous is not easy to make these days you can buy it already made and ready to cook in packages in the regular grains section of your grocery store.
Too cook couscous bring twice as much water as you are making of couscous to a boil.
If you are preparing couscous for 2 people bring 2 cups of water to a boil.
Once the water has boiled stir in the couscous and remove the pot from the heat source.
Cover the pot and let sit about 5 minutes.
When the minutes are over stir in (with a fork) about a teaspoon of butter.
It's done! Serve couscous with meat dishes such as lamb stew, or cool it and use in a salad.
Couscous can also be used as dessert when sprinkled with sugar or honey and your favorite nut pieces.
Couscous is so easy and versatile.
You can add garlic or other spices to suit your taste.