Seksu Khoubbiz, Couscous with Lavender, Couscous au Lavande

I left my camera somewhere and will not have it until tomorrow morning. So there go my plans to take photos of ghribia. I'll present a sweet couscous dish that is not well known. It's actually a very simple variation.

Ingredients:

500 gr of cooked couscous
500 gr de couscous cuit

1 tablespoon of lavender flowers, discard the stem
1 cuillere a soupe de fleur de lavande

1/4 cup of confectioner's sugar
25 gr de sucre glace

Method:

1) After the final couscous steaming add the lavender and dust with confectioner's sugar. Paula Wolfert's recipe for a sweet couscous with raisins. In Algeria we call couscous with raisins simply mesfouf, mesfouf b'z-zbib or seffa b'z-zbib. There are possibly more variations in what it's called.

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Comments

[HEE]

Hello, Chef Zadi. Awsome blog. is this recipe just for the dessert? I'm looking for couscous recipe that goes along with salmon. Can i make it savory?(like not using sugar...or something) Thank you!

[Farid Zadi]

Alanna,

It's served as a course before fruits or eaten as a light meal with lben (buttermilk).

[Alanna]

Very unusual! Is it served as a dessert? And if not, what would you serve this with? I love your introduction to Algerian cuisine -- it's traveling without travel! Now if we could only teleport kitchen aromas and tasting bites! Alanna