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Caramelized Onion Couscous (tfaya)
30 - 45 min
Ingredients
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1 kg of fine couscous
- 1 kg of lamb neck
- 1 kg of onions
- 3 hard boiled eggs
- 2 tablespoons of orange blossom water
- 1 tablespoon of rancid salt butter
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1 tablespoon of Billington´s Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
- 4 tablespoon of oil
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 2 pinches of saffron
- ½ teaspoon of ginger
- 4 cloves
- 200 g of raisins
- 200 g of blanched, fried and crushed almonds
- salt and pepper
Preparation
- In the bottom part of the couscous pot, put meat, thinly cut onions, spices and 1 cup of water. Let boil and cook for ½ an hour, taste and adjust spicing if necessary.
- Prepare the couscous while letting the raisins inflate for 10 minutes in cold water and 1 tablespoonful of orange blossom water .
- Put the onions with a ladleful of the juice in a thick-bottom pot with a tablespoonful of rancid salt butter or regular butter, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, 1 tablespoonful of orange blossom water, another tablespoonful of strong flavour cinnamon and let the onions brown until candied.
- Add the raisins and let brown for 10 minutes or until all the water has evaporated.
- Form a crown with the couscous grains and put in its center the portions of meat.
- On the couscous, put onions, raisins and the hard-boiled eggs cut in halves.
- Slightly moist with some of the juice.
- Sprinkle over almonds.
- Pour the rest of the juice in a bowl from which everyone can help themselves.