How to cook couscous
You will need - 1 glass of couscous, 2 glasses of boiling water
1. Pour couscous into a saucepan without rinsing.
2. Pour salted boiling water over cereals - for each glass of couscous 2 cups of boiling water.
3. Close the saucepan with a lid and leave the couscous for 5 minutes.
Your couscous is cooked!
Facts about couscous
Couscous is a cereal made from durum wheat. Couscous is a variation of semolina: it is also made from wheat, but processed differently. Therefore, couscous does not need to be boiled at all, its consistency is softer than semolina, and its calorie content is lower.If you need to cook couscous from semolina, you can do the following: sprinkle semolina with water (1/3 of water for 1/3 semolina), knead for 10 minutes, then remove large lumps. Keep couscous over steam for 15 minutes. If the couscous is large, chop it (but not necessarily) with a knife. Sprinkle moist couscous on a baking sheet and hold in the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 100 degrees. Cool couscous - it's ready to cook.
Couscous is served with meat dishes as a side dish, because couscous is especially good in combination with meat gravies and broths. Sometimes for cooking, it is supplemented with fried vegetables or dried fruits, less often seafood. It is important that couscous practically does not have its own taste, but when cooked with products of bright taste, it makes them softer.
The price of couscous is 100-200 rubles / pound (on average in Moscow for June 2017). The calorie content of cereals is 330 kcal / 100 grams.