Are your dinners becoming boring and routine? Would you like to add some new spice to your family table? Try couscous. Easy for babies learning to self feed and wonderful dish to soak delicious stews and soups.

Couscous, as familiar as potatoes to the Middle East is a pasta made from Semolina flour. Rubbed together with water it creates little pellets that cook very easy like pasta. Even easier. The initial couscous is not easy to make these days you can buy it already made and ready to cook in packages in the regular grains section of your grocery store.

Too cook couscous bring twice as much water as you are making of couscous to a boil. If you are preparing couscous for 2 people bring 2 cups of water to a boil. Once the water has boiled stir in the couscous and remove the pot from the heat source. Cover the pot and let sit about 5 minutes. When the minutes are over stir in (with a fork) about a teaspoon of butter.

It?s done!

Serve couscous with meat dishes such as lamb stew, or cool it and use in a salad. Couscous can also be used as dessert when sprinkled with sugar or honey and your favorite nut pieces. Couscous is so easy and versatile. You can add garlic or other spices to suit your taste.

O Quinn has been cooking and perfecting her dishes since the young age of nine. Visit her at http://www.ethnic-cuisine.com and read her daily musings from the dinner table at http://multicultural-cuisine.blogspot.com/.

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