Sunshine Couscous

[Suluby]

Sunshine Couscous

1 orange (I've used clementines, and in a pinch, a small can of mandarin orange segments)
1 cup uncooked couscous (I prefer the large grain couscous)
1 1/2 Cups orange juice
2 tablespoons canola or light olive oil
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
1 tablespoon grated orange peel
3 tablespoons raisins (Craisins are good!)
1/4 cup chopped walnuts, lightly toasted
1/4 cup finely chopped parsley

Peel & dice orange, removing pits.
Cook couscous according to package directions substituting OJ for the water.
When cooked, transfer couscous to a bowl and fluff with a fork, separating any lumps.
Drizzle oil and lemon juice over the couscous and continue to separate any lumps.
Add ginger orange peel, orange pieces, raisins, walnuts and parsley. Mix well.
Refrigerate, and toss lightly before serving.

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My family aren't big fans of walnuts - so I just leave them out.

I serve this at room temperature.

I keep ginger root in the freezer, and grate it frozen.

[iris]

May I recommend a food dictionary to be pinned here. What is couscous?

[Deleted]

mmm sounds delicious. I dont know what couscous is...but i eat it all the time. LOL ..is it a tiny pasta Su?

[iqof37]

Couscous is made from course grains like semolina. Like grits or cream of wheat but nastier.

[Suluby]

Couscous is one of the staple foods of the Maghrib (western North Africa). Couscous is made from two different sizes of the husked and crushed, but unground, semolina of hard wheat using water to bind them. Semolina is the hard part of the grain of hard wheat (Triticum turgidum var. durum), that resisted the grinding of the relatively primitive medieval millstone. When hard wheat is ground, the endosperm—the floury part of the grain—is cracked into its two parts, the surrounding aleurone with its proteins and mineral salts and the central floury mass, also called the endosperm, which contains the gluten protein that gives hard wheat its unique properties for making couscous and pasta--that is, pasta secca or dried pasta, also called generically macaroni. Couscous is also the name for all of the prepared dishes made from hard wheat or other grains such as barley, millet, sorghum, rice, or maize.

Although the word couscous might derive from the Arabic word kaskasa, "to pound small," it is generally thought to derive from one of the Berber dialects because it does not take the article indicating a foreign language origin. It has also been suggested that the word derives from the Arabic name for the perforated earthenware steamer pot used to steam the couscous, called a kiskis (the French translation couscousière is the word English-speaking writers have adopted), while another theory attributes the word couscous to the onomatopoeic--the sound of the steam rising in the couscousière, the most unlikely explanation.

www.cliffordawright.com/caw/food/entries/display.php/id/58/


I treat it and serve it as a starch side dish. I've prepared it with nothing more that an envelope of onion soup mix and a few pats of margarine.

I buy the Israeli couscous in white, tricolor and the whole wheat varieties.

This is fine grain couscous.
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This is large grain couscous.



This is a good pic of the large grain type, cooked.

The recipe for the above is at:
www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/toasted-israeli-couscous-with-vegetables-and-lemon-balsamic-vinaigrette-recipe/index.html

It looks good ..... I may try that recipe!!


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[Deleted]

It does look good. mmmm

[Country boy]

Oh my God , I'm going to gain weight in here,,,,, Bring it on!!!

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Feb 5, 2012 8:25:05 GMT -5 Country boy said:

Oh my God , I'm going to gain weight in here,,,,, Bring it on!!!

actually Randy....Su's recipe here is a healthy one. Alot better for you than the bacon and fried taters.

Oh man, I can see already im going to be the health poilice on some of these threads. I need a muzzle.

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I'm making this for dinner, maybe lunch, or a late breakfast? ASAP! lol.