Couscous with zucchini, beans and turnips sprinkled with buttermilk

Couscous with zucchini, beans and turnips sprinkled with buttermilk
This is a very popular Moroccan couscous dish; however, it is practically unknown to foreigners who love couscous because most find it very strange to mix vegetables with buttermilk and couscous!
Yes, this has been said to me over and over, but once they try it, they change their minds immediately.
I hope you will try this recipe as well and see how diverse making couscous is.
Ingredients:
Ingredients
  • 500 g of couscous OR 1 package (1 kg)
  • 1 whole chicken
  • 1 kg zucchini
  • 500 g turnips
  • 1 kg of fresh fava beans
  • 1 kg of onion
  • 1 handful of chopped cilantro
  • 1 tablespoon pepper
  • Pinch of saffron
  • 150g butter for the broth
  • 100g butter to coat the couscous
  • 6 liters water
  • Salt
  • 1 liter of buttermilk
  • 3 hardboiled eggs cut into 2
Instructions
  1. Preparation:
  2. Put the chicken pieces in the couscoussier.
  3. Add water, 2 onions, cut into wedges, pepper, saffron and salt
  4. Boil and place the top of the couscoussier filled with couscous on the pot
  5. After steam starts escaping, cook 30 minutes
  6. Then remove the couscous, pour it into a large shallow dish, crush lightly with a ladle to separate the grains, allow to cool and pour cold
  7. water, aerate and repeat same operation, cooking, until the grains are swollen and saturated with water.
  8. Let rest so that it absorbs the water
  9. Meanwhile, about 1 hour before serving, put the pot on the fire, peel and quarter turnips and take germs off beans
  10. Boil for 15 minutes, then add the cored and unpeeled quartered zucchini, well chopped onions and chopped coriander
  11. After boiling, add a quart of a liter of buttermilk
  12. Put the couscous in the top of the couscoussier
  13. When steam escapes from the couscous, remove the couscous and pour into a very large plate
  14. Add butter, mix well and pour over as much broth as couscous can absorb while stirring
  15. Then place in a large round dish, prepare in a cone shaped, form a well in the center and place meat and vegetables
  16. Garnish with a few hard-boiled eggs.

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