Spiced Couscous

Recipe Cuisine: Rice/grains
Recipe Category: Rice/grains
Recipe Serves: 6

Recipes Ingredients:

1/4 c Butter
2 1/4 c Chicken stock
1/4 ts Cinnamon, ground
1/2 c Currants
1/4 ts Cardamom, ground
1 1/2 c Couscous
1/8 ts Cloves, ground
1/4 c Cashews; or pistachios

Recipe Instructions:

Toast and chop cashews or pistachios. Melt Butter in medium Saucepan over low heat. Add spices and cook 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add stock and currants. Can be prepared 4 hours ahead. Bring to boil. Mix in couscous. Cover and remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes. Fluff with fork. Transfer couscous to bowl, add nuts and toss well. Sylvia's comments: this was good! I was hesitant to try it because I'd never heard of couscous and the spices sounded weird, but it was delicious with just a hint of sweetness. I don't think that much Butter was needed, though (and I'd already cut it down!), will try less next time. From _Bon Appetit_, October 1987. MM by Sylvia Steiger, GEnie THE.STEIGERS, CI$ 71511,2253, GT Cookbook echo moderator at net/node 004/005, Internet sylvia.steiger@lunatic.com