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 paradis
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 Cous Cous
#8438783 - 05/23/08 11:49 PM (6 months, 6 days ago) |
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I got a box of "5 minute" cous cous, had it forever
Here's the problem, every recipe I can find using cous cous is some health food or hippy crap. I need a good recipe that uses cous cous, that ain't vegetarian,etc.
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rugergirl79
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 Re: Cous Cous [Re: paradis]
#8438848 - 05/24/08 12:11 AM (6 months, 6 days ago) |
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* 8 lamb chop or skinless chicken piece, on bone but skin & fat free if possible
* 1 large onion
* 3 garlic clove
* 2 medium carrot
* 2 medium courgette (zucchini)
* 2 large potato
* 1/4 swede or turnip
* 1 parsnip
* 2-3 stalks celery (or khorchef)
* 1 cup chickpeas, drained
* 2 teaspoons ras el hanout spice mix
* salt & pepper
* 1 pinch dried mint
* 1 tablespoon sunflower oil or vegetable oil
* 1 cup of liquidised tomato puree
* 1 1/2 liters water
* 1 large green chilies (optional)
* 500 g medium couscous
* 1 tablespoon ghee (smen)
* 2 teaspoons butter or margarine
* 1 glass water
Directions
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Finely chop the onion and garlic and place it in a large heavy bottomed pan with the meat or chicken and ras el hanout. Fry gently to seal the meat/chicken. I use my pressure cooker for this.
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Chop the carrot, parsnip & courgette into 6ths. Cut the potato into 1/4's and roughly chop the swede. Chop khourchef or celery into roughly same size as carrot. (Peel the carrots, potatos, parsnip & swede).
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Add the vegetables to the meat along with 1L of water and turn up heat so they begin simmering. If using the chilli add it now, along with salt & pepper. If cooking in a regular pan then cook for 40 mins like this. If using the pressure cooker as I do then 20 mins wil be enough.
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Add the tomatos, chick peas and dried mint and 1/2L more water or enough to create a 'stew' consistency.
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Return to heat and cook in pan for further 30 minutes and if using pressure cooker then cook on med to high for a further 25 minutes.
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Take a 500g pack of medium cous cous and pour into a gas'a if you have one. If not find the biggest bowl you have. Pick out any 'bits' and sprinkle water - about 50mls and a tsp of salt over the cous cous and using your hand rub a tsp of oil through the cous cous to stop it sticking. Fill a couscousier or steamer half full with the couscous (as it swells).
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When you 1st notice steam coming from the cous cous, count 10 minutes. After that remove from the steamer, place in gas'a and use your hands to 'open' the cous cous (rub it together between hands to remove clumps). This is very hot and you need to keep wetting you hand with cold water and sprinkling a little on the cous cous.
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Return to steamer when thoroughly opened. Repeat process of steaming and opening twice more.
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Finally remove from steamer and place back in gas'a. Open for final time and rub a tbsp of ghee or smen into the cous cous along with 2tsp of butter or margarine. Add salt to taste.
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Serve the couscous in the gas'a with sauce on top as traditional style or in tagine etc. Usually we place the meat/chicken in place - 1 for each guest and decorate the cous cous with the veg before ladelling some of the sauce over the top.
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If you used the chilli, put it on a plate and let people help themselves to it!
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Far east makes a good cous cous, and it comes in different flavors.
I like the chicken flavored one and I make it with a steak or chicken or whatever and just have it as a side dish.
I know its not a recipe and Im not trying to win the prize.
Just wanted to share that with you.
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Re: Cous Cous [Re: paradis]
#8438988 - 05/24/08 01:05 AM (6 months, 6 days ago) |
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hippy crap? since when is eating healthy hippy crap?
and besides its a grain and is used just as any other grain like rice, quinoa, barley or oats. you can mix and match it with anything, add whatever spices you want to it, you can eat it with anything.
p.s. not every meal has to have meat in it. a little hippie veggie crap does the body good. 
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Edited by leftysurprise (05/24/08 01:08 AM)
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rugergirl79
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lamb is tasty......
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hell to the motherfucking yes!
rubbed with olive oil and sea salt, then coated with fresh rosemary leaves.
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rugergirl79
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nice...rosemary.......ahhhh... i think i am going to have to make some lamb tomorrow.....yup i do believe...
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and besides its a pasta
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Re: Cous Cous [Re: 2newtz]
#8440814 - 05/24/08 04:00 PM (6 months, 6 days ago) |
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is it really? i thought it was just ground semolina wheat, similar to grits made from corn........ well i learn something new every day.
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from wikipedia
Couscous...is a pasta from the Maghreb of Berber origin. It consists of spherical granules made by rolling and shaping moistened semolina wheat and then coating them with finely ground wheat flour. The finished grains are about 1 mm in diameter before cooking. The Israeli variant is about twice the diameter and made of hard wheat instead of semolina. [2] Traditional couscous requires considerable preparation time and is usually steamed. In many places, a more processed quick-cook couscous is available and is particularly valued for its short preparation time.
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well ill be damned.
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paradis
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Quote:
leftysurprise said:
hippy crap? since when is eating healthy hippy crap?
and besides its a grain and is used just as any other grain like rice, quinoa, barley or oats. you can mix and match it with anything, add whatever spices you want to it, you can eat it with anything.
p.s. not every meal has to have meat in it. a little hippie veggie crap does the body good.
Ugh, who even said anything about health? I'm not a damn vegetarian, and I do not believe being one equals health! If anything the opposite since we're OMNIVORES not herbivores. But please don't bring that vegetarian debate drama from the other thread in here, okay? You don't have to force your personal diet choices on everyone else
It doesn't have to have meat, I just didn't want some fruity recipe for brocolli and soy-cheese cous cous,etc like most the cous cous recipes I find online (aka hippy crap)
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Re: Cous Cous [Re: paradis]
#8442976 - 05/25/08 07:31 AM (6 months, 5 days ago) |
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paradis said:
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leftysurprise said:
hippy crap? since when is eating healthy hippy crap?
and besides its a grain and is used just as any other grain like rice, quinoa, barley or oats. you can mix and match it with anything, add whatever spices you want to it, you can eat it with anything.
p.s. not every meal has to have meat in it. a little hippie veggie crap does the body good.
Ugh, who even said anything about health? I'm not a damn vegetarian, and I do not believe being one equals health! If anything the opposite since we're OMNIVORES not herbivores. But please don't bring that vegetarian debate drama from the other thread in here, okay? You don't have to force your personal diet choices on everyone else
It doesn't have to have meat, I just didn't want some fruity recipe for brocolli and soy-cheese cous cous,etc like most the cous cous recipes I find online (aka hippy crap)
i made this post over a day ago bub. well before the other thread. 
and besides. im not a full vegetarian, i eat meat on occasion. and i eat fish and chicken regularly. i was just responding to what sounded like a pretty dumb comment thats all.
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Here's the problem, every recipe I can find using cous cous is some health food or hippy crap.
just take some crappy hippy recipe and throw meat in it. is it that hard? 
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“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” ~Stephen Roberts
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Ghetto Cous Cous:
Use chicken broth rather than water, add left over meat of your choice, like chicken or pork, throw in most any left over veggies, bring the broth/diced left overs to a boil, stir in your cous cous, stir, turn off heat & cover, drink some malt licker, smoke a bowl, & then eat.....................Enjoy
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rugergirl79
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i still think lamb and cous couls is the better choice. i think i am in the mood for lamb, i have yet to fix lamb this week.
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Quote:
A3eyedfish said:
Ghetto Cous Cous:
Use chicken broth rather than water, add left over meat of your choice, like chicken or pork, throw in most any left over veggies, bring the broth/diced left overs to a boil, stir in your cous cous, stir, turn off heat & cover, drink some malt licker, smoke a bowl, & then eat.....................Enjoy
i use broth in place of water for nearly all cooking. its tits.
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“If I had a quarter for every time I said I had a nickel, I would have five times as much theoretical money. ” ~Stephen Colbert
“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” ~Stephen Roberts
"George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd." ~Unknown
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paradis
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Quote:
A3eyedfish said:
Ghetto Cous Cous:
Use chicken broth rather than water, add left over meat of your choice, like chicken or pork, throw in most any left over veggies, bring the broth/diced left overs to a boil, stir in your cous cous, stir, turn off heat & cover, drink some malt licker, smoke a bowl, & then eat.....................Enjoy
Okay, that's the best one so far. haha
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