What to make with couscous, garbanzo beans and curry
Couscous is pasta made from semolina flour and pairs perfectly with curry and garbanzo beans.
What to make with couscous, garbanzo beans and curry
The flour is ground between two stones placed one on the top of the other, the upper one having one or two handles by which it can be moved around. Couscous and Tagines are the principal dishes for every day, special feasts and celebrations.
Semolina flour is ground from durum wheat and is usually used to make pasta. Couscous, often mistakenly called rice, but it is actually pasta made up of tiny pearls of wheat dough made from durum wheat.
Durum wheat is very hard wheat with high protein content. Its density, combined with its high protein content and gluten strength, make durum the wheat of choice for producing premium pasta products.
Pasta made from durum is firm with consistent cooking quality. Durum kernels are amber-colored and larger than those of other wheat classes. Also unique to durum is its yellow endosperm, which gives the pasta its golden hue.
One cup of cooked couscous has about 176 calories compared to 221 calories in one cup of cooked elbow pasta, and 360 calories in one cup of cooked brown rice.
