Sweet Couscous With Pistachios

Sweet Couscous With Pistachios

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Ingrediënten

  • 175 g raisins
  • 300 ml warm tea made with green or black leaves
  • 450 g couscous
  • 600 ml warm water
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • tablespoons sunflower oil
  • tablespoons cane sugar
  • tablespoons orange blossom water
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 25 g butter
  • 2 tablespoons shelled unsalted pistachios
  • 2 tablespoons icing sugar
  • 4 tablespoons runny honey
  • 5 tablespoons single or double cream

Instructies

  • Put the raisins in a bowl and pour in the warm tea.
  • Leave the raisins to soak for about 1 hour, until nice and plump then drain them thoroughly.
  • Tip the couscous into a bowl, Stir the salt into the water and pour it over the couscous.
  • Leave it to soak for 10–15 minutes.
  • Rub the oil into the grains, using your fingertips, and toss in the cane sugar, orange blossom water and half the cinnamon, Add the soaked raisins and mix thoroughly.
  • Spoon the mixture into a smaller bowl, pressing it down so that it all fits in snuggly, then invert the bowl onto a serving plate, so that you have a couscous dome.
  • Melt the butter in a skillet and stir in the pistachios for 1,5 minutes, until they emit a nutty aroma.
  • Scatter the pistachios over and around the couscous dome.
  • Dust the rest of the cinnamon in decorative lines from the top of the dome to the base, and sift the icing sugar over the top.
  • Heat the honey in a pan and serve the couscous with a drizzle of cream and warm honey as a sweet snack or at the end of a meal.

Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:

For couscous with raisins and honey,

follow the recipe for the soaking and oiling of the couscous. Toss in 2½ tablespoons raisins, soaked in tea, and tip the mixture into individual serving bowls. Heat 6 tablespoons honey in a small pan and drizzle it over the couscous in each bowl. Serve on its own with yogurt as a quick snack or for breakfast.
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Recipe Category Nuts / Rice / Side Dish
Country Arabic / Moroccan
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