How to cook cous cous

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Cous cous is name after several other names like Alcuzcuz, cuzcuz, cuscus...

The word comes from the berber term 'al kuskus' that  means the amount of food that a bird takes into its beak and kneads into little balls to feed its offspring.

It is a typical dish in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

There is a way to cook couscous . Today I present the way they do it at Maghreb:

Ingredients

• 250 grams couscous (medium size).
• 50 grams butter.

Method:

1. Place couscous in a large dish. Fill a glass with water and a pinch of salt. With the help of your hands take a litle quantity of water from the glass and rub the couscous, do the same again and again until the glass of water is empty ,grains of couscous should remain loose.
2.  Let stand for 15 minutes , this way it  will absorb the water.
3. Spread some olive oil in your hands , then rub couscous with your hands.
4. Put couscous in a couscoussier to steam it, in case you don't have one, you can use a casserole and a sieve like in the picture:
   
5. Put water in the casserole, place couscous on the sieve and boil over high heat. Once it reaches boiling point boil for 15 minutes.
6. Place couscous again in the large dish ,stirr to separate the grains of couscous.
7. Take another glass of water and procede as in step 1.
8. Then repeat all the steps again, twice or more times,until the couscous is cooked.
9. Now spread couscous in the large dish, add butter and stirr well.

Here you can see an example , how you can cook couscous. (In french) :

http://www.amourdecuisine.fr/article-comment-cuire-le-couscous-111575933.HTML

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