Couscous BesBes
Two dried red chillies
1dessert spoon ground caraway seeds
Three cloves of garlic roughly chopped
1tsp Salt
Pound up together to make a paste in a pestle and mortar or if your like me blitz in food processed/chopper lightly.
4 x Sundried tomatoes soaked in water and blitzed with a few tablespoons of water to make a watery paste. Add a couple of fresh chopped tomatoes to this paste.
Fry in a generous amount if olive oil a chopped onion and green chilli add paste and tomato mix and 1tsp turmeric and fry all together.
Meanwhile steam couscous over water for approx 10-15 mins.
My mother inlaw prepares the couscous prior to steaming by placing it in a large bowl, and running through with her hands a few tablespoons of water to coat the grains making sure they don't clump together. She then pops it in the steamer/colander over a large pan of boiling water. Once it's steamed for 10-15 mind tip the couscous back into the large bowl.
Steam separately approx 500g of fennel tops with a small diced carrot and a hand full of peas and a bunch of spring onions or a medium chopped onion for about 7 minutes. Then top with the couscous back over the steamer whilst sauce is bubbling away.
When the peas and carrots are tender. Tip couscous and greens into a bowl and mix thoroughly. Making sure the Fennel is really mixed through the couscous. Then add the sauce made from the spices etc and mix through the couscous until completely coated.
Then serve.
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