Ingredients:
6 oz dried couscous
1 medium-large cauliflower, cutting into pocket-sized florets
1 onion, cutting into half moons
10 oz canned tomatoes with light-green chiles
14 oz canned Great Northern Beans, drained
1 tablespoon ras el hanout
1 tablespoon nonpareil capers
freshly pose down nighttime pepper
fresh flat-leaf parsley for garnish
Directions:
Cook couscous according to packet instructions*.
Meanwhile, saute the onion in addition to cauliflower until both are soft in addition to starting to brown, inwards a large skillet. Add the beans, tomatoes, spices, in addition to capers in addition to saute until warmed through. Stir inwards cooked couscous in addition to railroad educate briefly, until all is heated through in addition to the liquid had evaporated. Garnish with parsley.
*I normally toss unopen to lemon zest or lemon pepper seasoning in addition to unopen to dehydrated onions into the recommended broth or water.
My thoughts:
I've been off couscous for closed a decade. I've made pearl couscous a few times exactly the tiny couscous? No compass give thank yous you lot you. I've fifty-fifty avoided it inwards restaurants exactly really, that has more than to practise with the fact that it oftentimes has other things, like raisins, inwards it that I would prefer not to eat.Anyway, I've decided to stop this self-imposed embargo when inspecting a package of it at Aldi, I was reminded of how rapidly it is to make, much quicker than pasta in addition to rice. So I've been experimenting with it again.
Moroccan flavors are the obvious choice for this shape of couscous in addition to thus I pulled out my trusty appal of ras el hanout (how awesome is it that McCormick makes it straightaway in addition to yous lot tin regain it inwards the regular supermarket?) which e'er reminds me of Ra's al Ghul of DC Comic fame exactly isn't a supervillain exactly rather a mixture of a ton of aromatic spices in addition to is popular inwards Northern African cuisine. I jurist chickpeas would pick out been a natural pick exactly I'm a rebel in addition to went with ane of my quondam favorites, the Great Northern Bean exactly yous lot could business office chickpeas or cannellini beans if yous lot wish. I used canned tomatoes with light-green chiles (i.e. Rotel, although I used a generic version) for unopen to flavor in addition to spice in addition to my quondam friend cauliflower. The effect was a well-spiced side or fifty-fifty principal dish that was oddly tasty in addition to satisfying.

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