Couscous in a sentence

These early mentions show that couscous spread rapidly, but generally that couscous was common from Tripolitania to the west, while from Cyrenaica to the east the main cuisine was Egyptian, with couscous as an occasional dish.

While modern families enjoy couscous with a fork or spoon, some older Moroccans eat with their hands, rolling one-handed balls of couscous.

Lucie Bolens affirms that Berbers were preparing couscous as early as 238 to 149 BCE, describing primitive couscous pots found in tombs dating back to the reign of the Berber King Massinissa.

Millet couscous was never as popular as hard wheat couscous because it took longer to cook and didn’t taste as good.

Sorghum was a popular grain for making couscous, and the Moroccan Berber word for sorghum, illan or ilni, is the same as the word in the West African language of Songhai, illé, lending further circumstantial evidence for an African genesis for couscous.

The most famous variation of ptitim looks like couscous and as Americans started to call it "Israeli couscous", the Osem company started to produce it outside Israel under this name.

Finely chop the parsley, grate the lemon zest and stir into the couscous with a fork.

Plate up with rice, couscous or pasta if you're extra peckish.

Serve with lamb, capsicum mixture and couscous, topped with reserved coriander.

To serve, pull out and discard herb sprigs if you like, and spoon couscous into bowls.

Despite scorching temperatures of 46 degrees Celsius (114 degrees Fahrenheit), the men carried out a vast clean-up operation while dozens of women were busy cooking a giant couscous.

Lidey Heuck is at the ready with this week’s one-pot recipe — her smoky fish with tomato, olives and couscous.

Most package instructions and recipes make instant couscous on the stovetop, bringing it to a boil with water and then removing it from the heat and letting it sit for a few minutes.

Set the clams aside and add the couscous to the sauce.

Whole grains, as in this couscous, are rich in fibre with many proven health benefits, including reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Add the potatoes to the sauce, and rewet the couscous in the sifter with a bit of the sauce “which will give it the red color”, continue cooking for another 20 minutes.

And if, when it comes to cooking, pastry isn’t required, the mixture of roast pumpkin, mushroom, chestnuts and thyme can be lengthened into soup, or mixed with rice or a heap of couscous.

Dice the onion and the garlic and then put them in the bottom of the couscous pot with the meat and a generous glug of oil.

Dishes on offer across both menus include shaved fennel, grapefruit and avocado purée, a risotto of wild mushrooms and truffle, and a tagine of seasonal vegetables with couscous and confit lemon.

For carbs, there's basmati rice, couscous, mashed potatoes, orzo, quinoa, and other options.