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Couscous recipes: simple & delicious – [ESSEN UND TRINKEN]
Couscous: Recipes & Tips
Couscous is a healthy delicacy and tastes great in main courses, side dishes and even as a dessert. Find out here what makes the grain balls so healthy, how they are prepared and try our delicious couscous recipes!

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Our favorite recipes with couscous
Discover our best couscous recipes with chicken, lamb or vegetarian, authentic Moroccan or as a light main course with a maximum of 450 kcal.
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Cook couscous properly
Couscous is originally made in a special pot Couscousiereprepared. The wheat grains are not cooked in it, but rather gently steamed over hot water or a dish. The couscous available in the supermarket is often pre-cooked Instant productwhich you just pour hot water or broth over and then soak for a few minutes have to leave. We explain how you can steam couscous without a couscousière in our basic recipe.
Couscous vegetarian
Couscous and crunchy vegetables make a great team! Enjoy vegetarian couscous dishes, for example, with plenty of summer vegetables such as zucchini, peppers or tomatoes, a pea and bean ragout or with braised root vegetables. Our chef Anne Lucas shows you in this video, step by step, how easy it is to make couscous with tomatoes.
To the recipe for tomato couscous with a printable version.

Tomato couscous
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Couscous salad
Whether for a barbecue, for a party buffet or as a filling main course: Couscous salads are wonderfully versatile and quick to prepare. Discover our salad ideas with rump steak, fruity with apricots or sophisticated with salted almonds.
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Tabbouleh
Tabbouleh is a salad from Arabic cuisine that is prepared with bulgur or couscous. Traditionally, tabbouleh contains plenty of parsley, spring onions and lots of aromatic spices. Mint and lemon juice make the bulgur or couscous salad wonderfully fresh.
Couscous as a main course
Couscous goes wonderfully with it beef and lambbut also tastes good with pork schnitzel and hare legs. Discover our beef ragout with couscous, oriental peppers with minced meat or lamb chops with broccoli couscous.
A typical couscous recipe with poultry is the aromatic Moroccan chicken. If you like something a little more unusual, you should try our melon couscous with grilled chicken.
But also FishLovers get their money’s worth with couscous dishes: our recipes for char with orange couscous, salmon couscous packets or pollock in a couscous crust prove this. Which variant are you hungry for? Let our recipes inspire you!
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Couscous as a side dish
Couscous also shines in a variety of ways as a side dish – making it a great alternative to rice and potatoes. Depending on the dish and preference, couscous can be prepared fresh and light in summer with mint, peppers or cauliflower; in winter dishes, couscous tastes good with pomegranate or cinnamon.
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Couscous as a dessert
Couscous is even used as a dessert: how about pistachio couscous with mint for the finale, or would you prefer the coconut version with yoghurt and rhubarb? The hit for dessert!
What is couscous actually and why is it so healthy?
Couscous originally comes from North African, or Oriental cuisine and has a similar status as a staple food to potatoes, rice or pasta in this country. In Morocco it is a popular national dish and is often eaten with a tagine – a typical braised dish. Couscous dishes are often seasoned with Ras el-Hanout or harissa paste.
The couscous balls themselves are made from ground grain: traditionally durum wheat – sometimes other types of grain such as barley or millet – to fine semolina processed and formed into small lumps by adding water. These are then ground into millimeter-sized beads and dried.
Similar to other grain products, couscous provides many Carbohydrates and keeps you full for a long time. At the same time, it contains little fat and only around 112 calories per 100 g. It is also considered a good source of vitamins and minerals such as calcium, potassium and zinc.