Pomegranate Bean Couscous Recipe - Bean Couscous with pomegranates has a good deal of body and texture emphasized by brilliance of pomegranates. Light red wine that has good fruit and low tomedium acid and slight oakiness.
How to Prepare Pomegranate Bean Couscous Recipe
New York (USA), February 16, 2018
Pomegranate Bean Couscous Recipe
Ingredients Required for Preparing Pomegranate Bean Couscous:
1-cup small white beans
2-tablespoon extra virgin sesame or olive oil
2 cups eggplant, cut in small dice
2-tablespoon sesame seeds
1 tablespoon softened garlic
12 oz. couscous
5-tablespoon olive oil
2-tablespoon pomegranate vinegar
1-cup pomegranate arils
2-tablespoon minced fresh coriander
Salt as per taste
Pomegranate Bean Couscous Preparation Method:
Pour boiling water on beans. Keep them soaked overnight. Drain the beans next day. Cook them well to make them tender in salted water to cover for 25 minutes. Drain the water and set it aside.
Keep sesame oil in a large frying pan. Heat it until it starts to smoke. Stir and fry the eggplant for five minutes, until it becomes tender. Add the sesame seeds in it. Carry on stir and fry until the sesame seeds start to change its color. Add garlic. Stir and go on cooking for one minute. Take off flora heat and keep it aside.
For cooking couscous, take 2 ½ cups of water to a boil in a large saucepan. Add up couscous. Leave the mixture to have a full boil. Bring down the heat to a low. Cover the pan and carry on cooking for about one minute. All the liquid will get absorbed slowly. Stir the mixture with fork to make it fluffy. Pour the mixture in a serving bowl.
Make vinaigrette by whisking oil and vinegar together. Pour them over hot couscous. Keep stirring it well and add beans and eggplant to it. Put in the pomegranate arils and softened fresh coriander. Set up the entire seasonings well. Serve the dish hot.
Beverage Suggestion:
Bean Couscous with Pomegranates has a good deal of body and texture emphasized by brilliance of pomegranates. Light red wine that has good fruit and low tomedium acid and slight oakiness. Beaujolais, Regnie, Grand Cru, and Maison de Lamartin are the best examples.
Tip:
Most delicate beans that would suite the dish well are the little white rice beans. You can also give fagioli del Pergatorio, the Italian heirloom form, a try. However, you may find difficulty to find them, as they are not easily available in all the regions of the country.
If you wish to have a substitute, the Italian cannellini bean is there. It is easily obtainable in most of the supermarkets.
For the eggplant, you should select the Thai long green of other long and slender eggplants. They are cooked up fast. They absorb little oil compared to the eggplants with large fruit.
Serves:
4 to 6 People
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