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Couscous Paste – The Sun of the Souks on Your Plate
Fragrant, smooth, and ready to use, couscous paste captures all the flavor of traditional Maghreb spices in a convenient format. Made with a delicious blend of couscous spices, fresh garlic, and onion, it brings warm, authentic depth to your dishes.
€5.60
How to Use Couscous Paste in Cooking?
This paste is designed to easily enrich couscous broths, stewed vegetables, or meats. Simply sauté one to two spoonfuls in a bit of oil, add your ingredients (lamb, chicken, chickpeas, vegetables...), then cover with water or broth and let simmer. It can also be used in tagines, chorba, or to season homemade meatballs. A simple gesture for generous, aromatic cooking.
Recipe Ideas with Couscous Paste
- - Traditional Vegetable Couscous: Sauté a spoonful of paste in a little oil. Add carrots, turnips, zucchini, chickpeas, and tomatoes. Cover with water and simmer for 40 minutes. Serve with semolina, a drizzle of olive oil, and a bit of harissa;
- - Quick Chicken Tagine: In a pot, brown chicken thighs with a spoonful of couscous paste. Add dried apricots, onions, and some broth. Simmer over low heat for 45 minutes;
- - Spiced Beef Meatballs: Mix ground beef with a spoonful of couscous paste, fine semolina, parsley, and an egg. Form meatballs, sear them, then add tomato sauce. Serve with bread or semolina;
- - Oriental Vegetable Soup: Sauté an onion with a spoonful of paste. Add lentils, carrots, tomatoes, and celery. Pour in broth and simmer for 30 minutes.
Aromas and Flavors of Couscous Paste
Couscous paste offers warm, comforting, and slightly sweet notes, driven by paprika, fresh garlic, and a bouquet of Mediterranean herbs. It evokes the fragrant broths of the souks, with a gentle complexity that wraps around dishes without overpowering them. It combines warmth, balance, and intensity in a smooth, easy-to-measure texture.
| Price/kg | 0 |
|---|---|
| Allergen | Sulfites / Sulphites |
| Ingredients | couscous spice blend powder 31% (containing paprika, spices, herbs), |
| sunflower oil, olive oil, onion, spirit vinegar, salt, fresh | |
| GARLIC (SULPHITES). | |
| Nutritional Info | VN Energie pour 100 g (energy for 100g) : 1994 kJ / 477 kcal VN Matière grasse (fat) : 40.9 g Dont acide gras saturés (of which saturated fat) : 5.8 g VN Glucides (carbohydrate) : 20 g Dont sucres (of which sugars) : 3.9 g VN Protéines (protein) : 5.2 g Vn Sel (salt) : 6.2 g |
| Contenance | 85g |
| TRACES EVENTUELLES D'ALLERGÈNES | céleri, sésame, moutarde, fruits à coques. |
