Sweet Couscous With Pistachios
Ingrediënten
- 175 g raisins
- 300 ml warm tea made with green or black leaves
- 450 g couscous
- 600 ml warm water
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1½ tablespoons sunflower oil
- 1½ tablespoons cane sugar
- 2½ 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.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
