Ras El Hanout Spiced Cauliflower Amongst Tomato, Beans Together With Couscous

Ingredients:
six oz dried couscous
1 medium-large cauliflower, cutting into pocket-sized florets
1 onion, cutting into one-half moons
10 oz canned tomatoes amongst light-green chiles
xiv oz canned Great Northern Beans, drained
1 tablespoon ras el hanout
1 tablespoon nonpareil capers
freshly soil dark pepper
fresh flat-leaf parsley for garnish



Directions:

Cook couscous according to packet instructions*.

Meanwhile, saute the onion together with cauliflower until both are soft together with starting to brown, inwards a large skillet. Add the beans, tomatoes, spices, together with capers together with saute until warmed through. Stir inwards cooked couscous together with railroad train briefly, until all is heated through together with the liquid had evaporated. Garnish amongst parsley.



*I unremarkably toss unopen to lemon zest or lemon pepper seasoning together with unopen to dehydrated onions into the recommended broth or water.

My thoughts:

I've been off couscous for close a decade. I've made pearl couscous a few times but the tiny couscous? No give thank you lot you. I've fifty-fifty avoided it inwards restaurants but really, that has to a greater extent than to practice amongst the fact that it oftentimes has other things, similar raisins,  inwards it that I would prefer non to eat.

Anyway, I've decided to halt this self-imposed embargo when inspecting a package of it at Aldi, I was reminded of how chop-chop it is to make, much quicker than pasta together with rice. So I've been experimenting with it again.

Moroccan flavors are the obvious choice for this form of couscous together with hence I pulled out my trusty outrage of ras el hanout (how awesome is it that McCormick makes it instantly together with you lot tin uncovering it inwards the regular supermarket?) which ever reminds me of Ra's al Ghul of DC Comic fame but isn't a supervillain but rather a mixture of a ton of aromatic spices together with is pop inwards Northern African cuisine. I justice chickpeas would convey been a natural pick but I'm a rebel together with went amongst ane of my onetime favorites, the Great Northern Bean but you lot could role chickpeas or cannellini beans if you lot wish. I used canned tomatoes amongst light-green chiles (i.e. Rotel, although I used a generic version) for unopen to flavor together with spice together with my onetime friend cauliflower. The upshot was a well-spiced side or fifty-fifty primary dish that was oddly tasty together with satisfying.