Hajar's Comfort Dessert Couscous

Name: Hajar's Comfort Dessert Couscous
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 10 serving(s)
Ingredients: 5 cups couscous, uncooked; 2 tablespoons vegetable oil; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 3 teaspoons cinnamon; 3/4 cup olive oil or 3/4 cup milk, i prefer milk though many use the oil both the olive oil and milk; cinnamon; icing sugar; prune, snipped; dates, snipped; raisins; almonds, as required, any semi dried soaked fruits. Nuts. I use the

Submitted by Hajar Elizabeth

"OOOOH! Will that do?! This is definitely a comfort food for me especially on a cool/cold evening warm and is teriffic for breakfast as well. We usually eat it cold for breakfast as we cannot be bothered to re-steam and it is just as lush cold/room temperature. A Moroccan home cooked classic! This recipe makes A LOT! Though it does freeze or you can split the recipe in half. No chance of either here,,,it goes! c.\2005"

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Ready In:: 1hr 35mins
Ingredients:: 11
Serves:: 10

ingredients

5 cups couscous, uncooked
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons cinnamon
³⁄₄ cup olive oil or 3/4 cup milk, i prefer milk though many use the oil both the olive oil and milk
cinnamon
icing sugar
prune, snipped
dates, snipped
raisins
almonds, as required, any semi dried soaked fruits. Nuts. I use the

directions

Cover raw couscous with cold water & drain immediately. Stir with a fork & let rest for 15 minutes.
Sprinkle with the vegetable oil mix with 6 tb water along with the salt & cinnamon. Mix well using your hands until the liquid has been uniformly absorbed.
Place couscous in the top of a coucousier & [place over boiling water.
Steam for 30 minutes & remove from the heat. Return couscous to a bowl & mix in half the olive oil or milk using your hands. Allow to cool & then sprinkle with 3/4 c water. Mix well & set aside until it has absorbed all the water.
Return to the couscousier & steam for another 15 minutes. Return to the bowl, add half the remaining oil or milk & mix with your fingers. Steam again for another 30 minutes. Return to the bowl for one last time & mix in the rest of the oil or milk or 1/2 milk and 1/2 oil.
Arrange coucous in a cone shape on a large serving platter. Decorate attractively with the garnishes & serve while still hot. Great cold for breakfast as well!
This is a make the couscous and the rest is garnish recipe. In my area, Oujda we prefer pistachios and will then add almonds to the pistachios if we have them.

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Hajar Elizabeth

Westbrook, 58

www.realethnic.blogspot.com I am marrying soon to a man who loves to eat as much as I love to cook. Gym, here he comes! I am also currently working on 3 cookbooks though I need Dragon software now due to my disabilities. My fiance and I love to be outdoors, have picnics and barbeques where I smoke all sorts of meats. I have traveled the world and am now still in my home port; at least to live but no moss grows under these feet! My fiance cannot cook, however and is now receiving cooking lessons from me. Anyone interested in cooking lessons in my area, please feel free to get in touch.

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