Sweet Couscous
- 2½ cups fine-ground couscous (seffa)
- 2½ cups warm water
- ½ to 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sunflower or vegetable oil
- 1 stick (½ cup) or more unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons superfine sugar
- To decorate: confectioners’ sugar and ground cinnamon
- To serve: little bowls of confectioners’ sugar, ground cinnamon, and honey
Instructions:
A sweet couscous made with the fine-ground couscous called seffa is served hot, accompanied by a drink of cold buttermilk or milk perfumed with a drop of orange blossom water served in little glasses.
- Shape the couscous into a cone in a round, flat dish.
- Dust the pointed top with confectioners’ sugar and draw lines, fanning down the sides, with confectioners’ sugar and cinnamon. Decorate further with one or two of the fruit and nut garnishes listed below.
- Serve in bowls and pass around bowls of honey, sugar, and cinnamon and more of the fruit and nuts, for people to help themselves as they wish.