Best Vegetable Barley Couscous Recipes
VEGETABLE COUSCOUS
This easy one-pot Vegetable Couscous recipe is loaded with highly nutritious vegetables amongst other ingredients. It's Fluffy, fragrant, and tasty with a kiss of warm flavors.
Provided by Lola Osinkolu
Categories Lunch/Dinner
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Preheat the oil in a pan and stir fry the onions, bell peppers, and carrots in the oil for about 5 minutes
- Stir in the crushed peppers, peas, raisins and cinnamon and season with salt, black pepper Tumeric and cinnamon
- Add the broth and bring to a boil
- Stir in the couscous cover immediately, turn off the heat off and let it stand for 5 minutes
- Fluff with a fork and sprinkle the parsley over it.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 206 kcal, Carbohydrate 43 g, Protein 7 g, Fat 1 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, Sodium 347 mg, Fiber 6 g, Sugar 6 g, ServingSize 1 serving
MOROCCAN COUSCOUS
Steps:
- Melt the butter in a large saute pan, add the shallots and cook for 3 minutes over medium heat. Add the chicken stock, salt and pepper, raise the heat to high and bring the stock to a boil. Off the heat and add the couscous. Cover the pan and let it sit for 10 minutes.
- Add the pignoli nuts and currants to the couscous, stir and serve.
- Place the chickens, onions, carrots, celery, parsnips, parsley, thyme, dill, garlic, salt, and peppercorns in a 16 to 20-quart stockpot with 7 quarts of water and bring to a boil. Skim the surface as needed. Simmer uncovered for 4 hours. Strain the entire contents of the pot through a colander, discarding the chicken and vegetables, and chill. Discard the hardened fat, and then pack the broth in quart containers.
VEGETABLE COUSCOUS
Looking for a different way to serve vegetables? These tiny pasta granules act like a magnet, pulling together the flavors of the chicken broth and vitamin-rich veggies. Carrots, celery, peppers and zucchini add fresh crunch and bright color.
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Side Dishes
Time 30m
Yield 4 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- In a large skillet, saute the carrots, celery, onion and peppers in oil for 5-6 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender. Add the next five ingredients. , Stir in couscous. Add broth; bring to a boil. Cover and remove from the heat; let stand for 5-8 minutes. Fluff with a fork and serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 272 calories, Fat 8g fat (1g saturated fat), Cholesterol 0 cholesterol, Sodium 513mg sodium, Carbohydrate 43g carbohydrate (0 sugars, Fiber 4g fiber), Protein 8g protein. Diabetic Exchanges
COUSCOUS BELBOULA (BARLEY COUSCOUS) RECIPE
Couscous does not need to be made with semolina. Learn how to make barley couscous by steaming coarse barley grits in a couscoussier.
Provided by Christine Benlafquih
Categories Side Dish
Time 1h20m
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Gather the ingredients.
- In a very large bowl, mix the dry barley couscous with the oil, using your hands to toss the barley and evenly distribute the oil.
- Mix in two cups of water, tossing the barley with your hands and rubbing out any balls that clump together. Leave the barley to rest and absorb the water for 10 minutes.
- Transfer the barley to the steamer basket. Place atop the couscoussier and seal the joint.
- Allow the barley to steam for about 15 minutes, timing from when the steam rises from the couscous.
- Turn the steamed barley back into the bowl and break it apart. Mix in another two cups of water and two teaspoons of salt, again tossing the couscous with your hands and rubbing out any balls that form. Leave the barley to rest and absorb the water for 10 minutes, then place back into the steamer.
- Steam for a second time for about 15 minutes, timing from when the steam rises from the couscous.
- After the second steaming has completed, turn the barley back into the bowl and break it apart. Mix in two cups of water and leave the couscous to rest and absorb the water for 10 minutes.
- After the barley has dried a bit, mix in another two cups of water. Again, leave the barley to rest a few minutes so that it has time to absorb the water. At this point, the barley should feel al dente and somewhat heavy.
- Steam the barley for the third time, for about 10 to 15 minutes.
- Place the barley couscous in a big serving bowl and toss in the butter and the broth. Mix well and serve (see tip below).
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 75 kcal, Carbohydrate 12 g, Cholesterol 2 mg, Fiber 1 g, Protein 2 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, Sodium 345 mg, Sugar 0 g, Fat 2 g, ServingSize 13 Cups Cooked Barley, UnsaturatedFat 0 g
BARLEY COUSCOUS WITH SEVEN VEGETABLES
Traditionally, the Berbers first made couscous with barley, and barley couscous is still very popular, especially in the south of Morocco. It is now available in precooked form from some Middle Eastern stores. You can substitute ordinary couscous. You can make the broth with lamb, beef, or veal (preferably shoulder, neck fillet, or knuckle) and with a choice of vegetables. According to local lore, seven is a magic number that brings good luck. Onions, tomatoes, and chili peppers count as flavorings, so you must have seven more vegetables. I have listed eight, so drop one. The number of ingredients makes it seem a scary endeavor, but it is only a matter of throwing things into a pot, and it makes a spectacular one-dish meal for a large party. You will need a very big pot.
Yield serves 10
Number Of Ingredients 25
Steps:
- Prepare the couscous in a large, round, ovenproof dish as described on page 112, leaving the final heating in the oven to be done 20 to 30 minutes before serving.
- Cut the meat into 10 pieces and the onions into quarters, then into thick slices, and put them in a large pan with the drained chickpeas. Cover with about 6 pints of water, bring to the boil, and remove the scum. Add the pepper (no salt is added at this stage since it would stop the chickpeas from softening), saffron, cinnamon, and ginger and simmer, covered, for 1 hour.
- Now put in the tomatoes, carrots, turnips, cabbage, potatoes, cut in half or left whole if small, and the whole chilies, if using. Add salt, and cook for 30 minutes, or until the meat is very tender.
- Add the celery, pumpkin, zucchini, cut into fat slices or left whole if they are baby ones, fava beans, and herbs. Add more water, if necessary, taste, and adjust the seasoning, and cook 30 minutes more.
- About 20 to 30 minutes before the end of the cooking time-when the last vegetables go in-put the couscous into the oven, preheated to 400°F, and heat through until it is steaming hot, taking it out and fluffing it with a fork after about 10 minutes. Before serving, fork the butter, cut into small pieces, into the couscous and fluff up the couscous as it melts in.
- To serve, moisten the couscous with a little broth and shape it into a cone with a crater at the top. Arrange some meat in the crater and some vegetables down the sides, then pour a little broth over the mound. Bring the remaining broth, meat, and vegetables to the table in another bowl. Alternatively, bring the couscous to the table in one dish, and the broth with the meat and vegetables in another, and serve them directly into individual bowls or soup plates.
- Use 2 chickens cut into pieces instead of the meat.
- For a peppery sauce, pass around a bowl with 3 to 4 ladles of the hot broth mixed with 1 tablespoon or more harissa or 2 tablespoons paprika and 1 teaspoon or more chili pepper. Although this was originally a Tunisian and Algerian custom, not Moroccan, the French like it as do some of us now.
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