Table of Contents for cooking couscous
Ingredients for cooking couscous
How to cook perfect couscous
Preparation Video
Tips & Nutrition Facts
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Recipe Video
Cooking couscous: all hacks for the perfect result
Cooking couscous is pretty easy in fact you do not even need to cook it, just pour the boiling water and wait. But, as always the devil is in the details. If you want a perfect result – couscous that tastes great and does not stick together. In my step by step recipe you will find all the details and hacks – so you get an amazing couscous every time. One of those hacks is to use a pan (or I used a tea can) with a flat bottom. Boiling water has to spread evenly in all the couscous and if you have some parts of a bowl that are wider or narrow this will not happen. Also important is to use a lid that closes a pan or a container very tightly. One more hack is to use a fork instead of a spoon – this way couscous would not stick together.
Couscous is a perfect base for a lot of dishes – check my protein bowl or easy dumplings, that you can make and add couscous or basic recipes – how to cook perfect rice or make crispy french fries at home.
How to prepare perfect couscous
Ingredients
- 100 g couscous
- 8 g oil
- 250 g boiling water
- ½ tsp salt
dry spices of your choice -I have chosen:
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- ½ tsp coriander
Instructions
- The best way to cook couscous is without boiling it and pouring the boiling water over it.
- This way the couscous tastes great and does not stick together. You can add any spices you like.
- You will need a dry pan with a flat bottom (or a dry container works too) and a lid. It is important that you can properly close the couscous.
- Add 100 g of dry couscous, ½ tsp salt, ¼ tsp black pepper and any spices you like, I am using ½ tsp coriander.
- Mix everything with a fork.
- Add 250 g boiling water and 8 g of oil, mix with a fork, close tightly with a lid, leave for 20 minutes without opening.
- After 20 minutes, stir with a fork (not a spoon, for couscous not to stick together).
Nutrition Facts