welcome everybody to this couscous friday today's couscous will be couscous to fire it's my first
time cooking couscous first i have to make sure my hair is looking okay yeah that's good enough
so couscous tofia is an onion mixture which is with raisins and sugar the onions caramelize
and here we're using nearly a kilo of onions 800 grams next is our spice mixture of ginger
cinnamon turmeric salt and pepper just gonna throw that on top of the butter and onions and
give it a stir i'm gonna add some water to this because the onions are gonna cook for 45 minutes
we don't want them to burn cover it and let it cook on low heat for 45 minutes
next it's time to prepare the chicken while the onions are cooking first up the olive oil next i
had a gigantic home raised chicken that weighs a kilo and a half i guess we would call this a
chicken belly or free range and then we add a cinnamon stick for spice turmeric
ginger saffron salt and pepper of course some fresh herbs from the garden as well
in addition to the onion cooking separately we're gonna throw some onion on top of the chicken as
well now that's looking good but i feel like it's missing something oh yeah i forgot the chickpeas
now you can't really cook chickpeas without water so it's time to add that water
all right we've been cooking these onions for a long time let's add some sugar to
there that should do it and our raisins that have been soaking a lot of raisins in this one
half cover andrei's getting hungry so i gotta get this show on the road and our chicken and
sauce is looking cooked chickpeas are softer so this couscous only takes three to five minutes
couscous and morocco takes like 45 minutes we usually be cooking with a couscous steamer on top
for our sauce and chicken here it gives it good flavor but today we're just working
with this couscous i'm gonna throw some butter on it put it on a plate
and hope it's good this feels like cheating a little bit i'm hanging with this i could tell
just doesn't seem right some butter to that couscous because we don't have cement in a short
time couscous was cooked spread it on a plate put the chicken on top of it added the sauce with the
chickpeas followed by our tafaya caramelized onions some toasted almonds and then some eggs
our final product couscous tofia i don't know i'm not super confident about this one wow why
you are not super confident about your dishes but they are amazing the sauce looked a little thin
tin what do you mean not enough of sauce no the sauce is too watery let's try it enough talking oh
our sauce chickpeas yeah the chickpeas are in there a lot of chickpeas uh-huh okay
just on the top there's already some on there you add it as you like it to your taste
it's really good it tastes like couscous yeah it tastes like couscous like real moroccan
couscous really these american ones that are cold couscous salad that's the real thing
i'm not convinced you have to try more onions yeah the onion is a good part yeah you have to eat it
with onions i think onions are the most important part because the chickpeas are kind of tasteless i
don't know if i need more salt or what but the onion very good yeah i agree the onions came
really nice but the chickpeas couscous itself it's just okay
so this was couscous tofia the couscous specialty of fez i really really enjoyed
the tafaya which is the onion raisin mixture the chickpeas are nice and soft my chicken belly isn't
so nice i didn't like it that much it's kind of tough i didn't braise it well enough so the
skin is kind of gooey but the sauce is good with the saffron nothing's overpowering the almonds
mixed with the onions the raisins and the couscous and the sauce is amazing it's addicting i could
keep eating that over and over again check out to see if andrea liked it i would say
she liked it my side your side who did it better my side
and for the record sheet all the hard-boiled eggs on there no one is in the kitchen the
one you broke so couscous tofia very good my mom liked it at the moroccan restaurant in
chicago that's where i discovered it because it's near haggadir we get a lot couscous with
seven vegetables which is also delicious just not the same as this maybe next time we'll cook that
so thank you for watching this american prepare uh traditional moroccan meal
of couscous tofia super delicious and maybe we bring the leftovers to the neighbor