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Hi everybody, I know I might more than one post today, I made some recipes past week for participating in the events and I am going to do it in the last minute as always!!, I really was googling a lot to do something to bake but that was not going to happen and this one was my daughter's love to this grain!!, She loves couscous so much, she wanted me try this out when she came back from school. So here is the recipe which I took from All Recipes that's a wonderful website with a large collection of recipes, I hope this is a typical African meal, As I was googling I came to know that Couscous is like a staple food of the Africans and they love it veggies and meats, and reading more about it I came to know that their are different kind of Couscous found and there is an art to cook this grain too.., that was quite interesting. Well I really do not know any art in cooking this but I used to cook it according to the packet instructions but these I have become an expert :), I just pour water without any measurments and it cooks very well, just like I cook Rice. Coming back to the recipe this is how it goes...
COUSCOUS CASABLANCA
INGREDIENTS:
1 Cup Couscous
A fist full of Raisins
4 to 5 sprigs of fresh coriander leaves
1 tbsp Lime Juice
chilli sauce to taste
pinch of ground cinnamon
1 tbsp of Orange flower water (which I did not have!!)
VEGETABLE STEW
3 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
2 Onions
4 cloves of Garlic
1 tsp cumin seeds
3 cloves
1'' Grated ginger
1/4 tsp of Turmeric powder
3/4th cup cubed Pumpkin
1/2 cup sweet potato
1 celery stick
1 Medium sized carrot
1/2 cup french beans
1 courgette medium
3/4th cup chick peas (soaked)
1/2 cup Tomato pureed
2 cups of Vegetable stock
HARISSA PASTE:
1 tbsp Coriander seeds
1 tbsp cayenne pepper
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 tsp paprika
1 tbsp Caraway seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
3-4 tbsp of Extra virgin olive oil
METHOD
To make vegetable stew:
Take a wok heat oil, add the cloves, cumin seeds, ginger, chopped onions and garlic and saute for few minutes, then add the Tomato puree and then add all the veggies and cook till they are soft then add the vegetable stock and bring it to boil,
Meanwhile, In a wok add a tsp of oil and fry all the ingredients in the Harissa paste ingredients and saute for few minutes and when it is cool make it into a paste using the remaining oil.
Add this paste to the cooking vegetables and cook for further few minutes add salt to taste and put of the stove and garnish with chopped coriander leaves and keep it aside
Meanwhile when the vegetables are cooking start cooking couscous
To make couscous
Boil hot water around 2-2 1/2 cups . Take couscous and raisins in a bowl pour the hot water into it and close the lid and allow it to cook or you can just add required quantity of water to couscous and raisins and put it on a stove and allow it to boil. within few minutes it get ready quickly.
In a large plate spread couscous sprinkle cinnamon powder and orange flower water and pour some of the vegetable stew over it and keep the rest aside and serve it with chilli sauce on the side.
PS: As I was making this for the kids I just tweaked it a little bit which you will notice when you read the all recipes!!, I thought the chillies, chilli sauce and again Harrisa sauce is going to make the dish too hot for the curds to eat, what I made itself was quite spicy so said my kids so I had to provide one of them with cucumbers and the other with yogurt!!, but then they liked it said it was different and enjoyed and finished it!! Thank God!!, I was really keeping fingers crossed that it would be not too hot!!.
Now why did I make this!! I made this for AWED African this month hosted by Padmaja of Seduce your taste buds which was started by DK of chef in you, both have a wonderful blog you need to check them out!!, with lovely photographs to seduce your taste buds and bring out the chef in you into action!!!
Here is one last peak at my couscous casablanca!!!
Dug in!! and hope you enjoy!! c u soon!!.....
Labels: African, Couscous, International cuisine, Tomatoes, vegan, vegetarian
Hi friends, Hope you are all doing well, I have missed lot of recipes, hope soon I will sit and check them out!!, I have made new friends, which is of course a very happy thing, Blogging has given me new friends , new interests, and a lot of different out look towards life!!.
As I have always written, everyday I sit to post and my eyes gets locked with something, new, innovative, lovely photography and an interesting write-up!!, and I end up seeing them!! and forget what I sat for..
Coming back to the recipe!!, Andhra vantalu ante ma ayniki chaana ishtamandi!!, My friend U was asking over the phone, Jayasri yemi chestha unnavu ?, Andhra vantaalu chestha unnanu, Inti ki raa thinesi yetalu undi anni chepu, anta chepinnanu, Aaa Ammayento srivaari ki pani late ayindi anta next day vacchindi!!, Anni dishes taste chesi, bhagaane chesinaavu Jayasri anta remarks Icchindi!! hahaha.., If only my friends read this they will laugh out loud, hope I wrote telagu properly!!, she keeps teasing when I insert lot of Tamil or kannada words when I speak telagu, but always encourages me and talks to me most of the time only in telagu, because I have told her strictly I want to learn to speak telagu properly, and she should talk to me in the same!!, howzit ?
Let me come back again to the recipe...
So I prepared all these and we had a Andhra cuisine ....
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Hi friends, I know I am a few minutes late for my Daring Baker's challenge posting !! :), that's me always late for everything, But, But, just a second I posted in the forum right on time!! exactly 2 minutes before midnight!!.
This month April 2010 Daring Baker's Challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen, she challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using if possible a very British ingredients Suet!!!.
Well, well, well this was a difficult situation I was in and few more like me who are vegetarians and vegans, as Suet is made from meat!!, Even though here they sell a vegetable suet by Atora, I had never tried it and really did not know how it works, May be someday I might give it a try!!, But then Esther, was a wonderful host who wanted all of us to participate and was she flexible, yes!!, she was very !!!, she wrote that she wanted all of us to bake I mean Steam away or Bake or however you know how to make a pudding!!, and yes here we go we all had free reins so we could just make whatever we wanted!!
If you are interested on how the suet is made check out in Esther's blog or visit the main Kitchen where loads of our Daring bakers have contributed to stuning puddings to feast your eyes!!
I just wanted it to be atleast in something realtively near so I really wanted to Steam and see how the pudding tastes and looks!!, I was so surprised that it turned out very well..., Here is my pudding recipe...
This recipe after searching so many books I found this one, which attracted me for two reasons one by the look of it and the other was it had dates in it!! The most loved dry fruit by me....!!!,This book is a collection of Desserts and doesn't have an author.., whoever found this one won my heart and of course my family and friends who enjoyed it, especially my H who said, it was simply Gorgeous and had a generous second helping !!! as it was quite sweet...
Sorry once again I have to apologise the not-too-tempting-clicks!!, But they were really too yummy!!, you all must give it a try.
CHOCOLATE, ORANGE AND DATES PUDDING
100 gms Golden Caster Sugar
2-3 Seedless Oranges
200gms Unsalted butter, softened
200 gms Dark Muscovado sugar
Finely grated zest of 1 unwaxed Oranges ( I used 2 tbsp)
3 tbsp of fine-cut Orange Marmalade ( I used home-made Marmalade from my previous recipe)
3 Eggs beaten
1 tbsp Orange-Flower water (Optional)
150 gms Plain Flour (I used 100 gms Plain flour + 50 gms Quinoa Flour)
50 gms Unsweetened Cocoa powder
2 tsp of Baking Powder
150 gms ready-to-eat dates, chopped
Served 7 !!
Enjoy!!!
Labels: Cakes, Desserts, Steaming, vegetarian