Pomegranates couscous salad

Pomegranates couscous salad
This is surely one of the most delicious couscous salad/dessert recipes you can make; it requires a nice amount of pomegranates seeds.
Here are the ingredients you will require:
Ingredients
  • Orange flower water to taste
  • 300g couscous
  • 20 cl of milk
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 5 tablespoons honey
  • 25 to 50g butter
  • 50 to 100 g slightly ground almonds
  • 2 large pomegranates
Instructions
  1. Now, let’s prepare our pomegranates couscous:
  2. Mix the milk with a little orange flower water, if you like it, like I do, you can add more. In a deep and shallow dish, add 10 ml of milk and work the couscous grains with the palm of your hands, let rest for 10 minutes.
  3. Then, add the ground almonds and mix well.
  4. Add 3 liters of water in a couscousier and put the couscous in the couscoussier steamer. And cook uncovered until the steam passes through the semolina grains.
  5. Remove the couscoussier steamer and pour the slightly cooked couscous into a dish.
  6. Sprinkle with 8cl of milk.
  7. Mix the couscous grains by hand.
  8. Add the butter and spread roughly in the dish. Let it cool.
  9. Put the couscous in the couscoussier steamer and repeat the process, add more water if necessary.
  10. Then, remove the couscoussier steamer, pour the couscous into a dish and sprinkle with the remaining milk. Let it cool.
  11. Put the couscous grains in the couscoussier steamer and repeat the process.
  12. Put the couscous in a pan, and mix well by hand.
  13. Lastly, add the honey and mix well, after this, add the cinnamon and let it cool.
  14. Deseed your large pomegranates and gently mix the cool couscous with the seeds.
  15. Serve in a decorated serving tagine and garnish with the left pomegranates seeds on the sides.

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