Cous cous?

MissMuppet · Cous cous?

I bought a Healthy Living pot of cous cous today from Tesco for my lunch and it was rather nice... and cheap too!

Anyway was thinking I could buy a bag of cous cous as it's very cheap and add ingredients to it to make it tasty... the ingredients in the one I bought though were dry, such as tomato, mint, coriander, apple! Where would I get this sort of stuff from?

I don't know if I could do it with fresh ingredients!!!

I am now having deja vu thinking I've already posted about this...off to look now! q51

Nannyp

Not sure if you can get it there, but over here we can by boxes of "taboulie" with the added ingredients. probably as cheap as buying a plain bag and then adding ingredients. Have a look on the shelves (or do a search online at Tesco's or Sainsbury's) and see if they do boxes in there dried food.

Coriander and mint make lovely flavouring for taboulie (cous cous).

dingsy

Julian Graves normally has things like this-and a whole lot more besides. But cous cous....yuck!

MissMuppet

See Elaine I knew you didn't like it so I know we've discussed this before!

Julian Graves have shut down in Ashford, will have to see where my nearest one is...

They do different flavoured cous cous in the shops, but they are expensive, that's why I thought get some plain cous cous and add stuff! I'm not sure what you mean by taboulie Mum!

dingsy

Think your Mum meant "tabbouleh"-

"Tabbouleh (Arabic: تبولة‎; also Tabouleh or Tabouli) is an Arabic salad dish, often used as part of a mezze. Its primary ingredients are bulgur, finely chopped parsley, mint, tomato, scallion (spring onion), and other herbs with lemon juice, olive oil and various seasonings, generally including black pepper and sometimes cinnamon and allspice. In Lebanon, where the dish originated, it is often eaten by scooping it up in Romaine lettuce leaves. In Iraq, the dish is considered native to Mosul, whose cuisine is tightly linked to that of Syria."

Think you might actually be able to get quite a bit of what you want in Tesco too. I often buy their dried fruit mixes as an addition for my home mixed muesli,so they might stock quite a variety of other bits.

Cous cous......yuck, shiver, blah,,,,,

MissMuppet

I will have a look when I'm next in Tesco or Sainsburys...

Cous cous is nice Elaine, I think you should give it a go... the Ainsely Harriott moroccan one is lovely!

Nannyp

I thought tabouliie and cous cous were one and the same...

okay, am reading the side of the box, bearing in mind it is in French....but it is semolina?? I think

bum, I should not have gone to that cupboard...there's a whole packet of creme filled wafter biscuits in there

I am not dipping them in Nutella and it wasn't my idea

dingsy

Pretty sure cous cous is semolina.

Hated it as a pudding when a child (couldn't swallow it at all). The first time I had it as cous cous was when we were in Paris on our honeymoon (ahhhh). We didn't know what we'd ordered, and when it arrived and I tasted a mouthful....yuck! The following evening I ordered steak tartare, which caused further consternation when it arrived. q21

MissMuppet

I'm giving up trying to persuade you... but I'm sure cous cous has come a long way since you had your honeymoon Elaine!

dingsy

We lived on love.....

Nannyp

I think what Jo means is....back in the dark old days, semolina was nasty...but since the enlightened age...it's much nice now

Well, I just think that cous cous is referred to as taboullie in France, and lots of it is sold in plastic boxes to have as a salad accompaniment and very nice it is too.

I couldn't eat tapioca as a child (and still wouldn't) looks like frogs born and is all slimey YUK q11

I love that, "We lived on love" q18