Best Couscous Casserole Recipes

GARLIC CHICKEN IN CASSEROLE WITH ISRAELI COUSCOUS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Put the garlic bulbs in a small tin and roast them until they are soft when squeezed, about 30 minutes. Remove them from the oven and let cool.
• When the garlic bulbs are cool, slice the tops off and squeeze out the roasted garlic. Add the garlic to a food processor or a bowl, along with the lemon zest, lemon juice, thyme, cumin, crushed red pepper and salt, to taste. Add a little olive oil and puree or mash into a loose paste. Massage the mixture all over the chicken pieces and let sit for at least 1 hour.
• Bring a pot of well salted water to a boil, over medium heat. Add the couscous and cook it until it's about 2/3 of the way cooked, about 5 to 6 minutes. Drain and reserve.
• Coat a large saute pan with olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the chicken to the pan and brown it on all sides. Remove it to a plate, drain the fat and add the onions and celery. Season with salt, to taste, and the crushed red pepper. Deglaze with white wine, scraping up all the crud on the bottom of the pan and cook the onions and celery for 7 to 8 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and cook for another 2 minutes. Add in the saffron, zucchini, cooked couscous, and chicken stock. Stir to combine, then taste and adjust seasoning, if needed. Transfer the mix to an ovenproof dish. Nestle the chicken, skin side up, in the couscous and cover with foil. Add some more chicken stock to keep everything nice and moist. Sprinkle with pine nuts and cover with foil. Place the baking dish on a sheet pan.
• Roast the chicken for 20 minutes, covered, then remove the foil and roast for another 10 to 15 minutes.
• Remove the chicken from the oven and top with scallions before serving.

MONGOLIAN LAMB CASSEROLE WITH COUSCOUS

Steps:

• Cut lamb into strips. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large pan, add lamb in batches and cook until browned. Remove lamb and set to one side, heat the remaining tablespoon of oil and add onion and garlic, cook until onion softens.
• Return lamb to pan along with sugar, soy sauce, black bean sauce, stock, water, sherry, sweet chili sauce and 5 spice powder.
• Simmer, covered, about 50 Min's or until lamb is tender.
• Blend a little water with cornflour, add 3 green onions, stir, add cornflour and stir until mixture boils and thickens.
• Serve with couscous and top with remaining sliced green onions.
• Couscous.
• Heat water in a pan and add vegetable stock to water, add sachets of couscous and leave about 2 Min's until soft.
• Remove sachet cut open and pour into bowl fluff with a fork and serve.
• Or prepare couscous according to your packet directions, just add vegetable stock to water, as this gives added flavour to couscous.

COUSCOUS CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Combine water and salt in a saucepan; bring to a boil, remove from heat.
• Add couscous; stir well.
• Cover and let stand 5 minutes or until couscous is tender and liquid is absorbed.
• Add black beans and next 5 ingredients; stir gently.
• Combine ricotta cheese, vinegar, oil, and cumin; stir into couscous mixture.
• Spoon mixture into an 11x7x2" baking dish coated with cooking spray.
• Bake, uncovered, at 350F for 25 minutes or until thoroughly heated.
• Cut spinach leaves into thin strips.
• Place 1 cup spinach on each serving plate; spoon couscous mixture evenly over spinach.

COUSCOUS CASSEROLE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 F. In a large frying pan, heat oil and saute the onion for - 3 minutes. Next, add the red pepper, green onion and carrots, stirring often for 5 minutes.
• 2. In a small pot, boil the water and add the couscous and remove from heat, allowing to sit covered, for 5 minutes.
• 3. Now add the raisins and tomatoes to the pan, stirring for 4 minutes.
• 4. Bring another pot of water to a boil and add the spinach, boil for 3 minutes, remove and drain. Gently mix the spinach into the ingredients in the frying pan. Set aside until needed.
• 5. Using a 13″x9″ baking dish, add the couscous to form a bottom layer. Then add the spinach mixture. Crack your eggs and add them whole to the top of the casserole.
• 6. Bake for 10 minutes or until the eggs are cooked to your preference. The eggs are always sunny side up. Now you are ready to serve.

SPICY COUSCOUS CASSEROLE

Steps:

• 1. Heat oil in 5-6 qt pan over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, and jalapeno chilies. Cook, stirring occasionally until the onion is golden (about 15 min). 2. Stir in spices, broth and lime juice. Bring to boil over high heat. 3. Add couscous and lentils; stir well. 4. Cover, remove from heat, and let stand until the liquid is absorbed (abt 5 min). Spoon the couscous onto a platter or individual plates. Garnish each serving with parsley and green onions.

LAMB CASSEROLE WITH COUSCOUS

Steps:

• 1. Wash cut and cook the meat with some salt and spices for 30-40 minutes covered in a standard pot.
• 2. Wash and chop all veggies and set aside.
• 3. Cook the couscous as per pack instructions. Ideally is to steam it but for quickness I put the desired couscous in a bowl, mix it with some salt and pepper and pour boiling water over to cover it about two fingers above the level of the dry couscous. Cover with a plate and set aside for at least 20 minutes.
• 4. Add the chickpeas or the lentils to the meat along with the vegetables. Add some salt pepper and the spices. Cook for another 10 min and then add the tomato paste and the chopped tomatoes and cook for 20-30 minutes more. If you are using a pressure cooker to make this dish, put everything in at once (meat, lentils/chickpeas and veggies cover and cook for 30 minutes, depends really on the meat cut but lamb is tender so 30' should be suffice. If it is mutton or beef which can also be used, you can cook into two sessions, first cook meat alone and then the rest. I would not cook the veggies for longer than 30 min as they would just get murdered.
• 5. Chop some parsley or coriander and add at the end.