A Soulful Twist » food http://asoulfultwist.com Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:28:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 Yellow Couscous ~ Simple Sides http://asoulfultwist.com/yellow-couscous-simple-sides/ http://asoulfultwist.com/yellow-couscous-simple-sides/#comments Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:00:12 +0000 http://asoulfultwist.com/?p=2845 This side was made specifically for the Red Wine Vinegar Chicken; the two dishes create balanced, complete, and delicious flavors when paired together. 

The juices from the red wine sauce make this dish even more delightful, but it can also stand perfectly fine on its own.

I’ve eaten leftover couscous for breakfast on more than one occasion, I love the texture and consistency of the cute miniature pastas.

Plus whenever I eat it, I feel all exotic, I didn’t get the chance to eat couscous growing up, so when I it was introduced as an adult it became a cool addition to the kitchen repertoire.

This dish is super simple with beautiful color and subtle notes of refreshing flavors, that will please you and your family.   

Couscous
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Ingredients
  1. 1 cup couscous
  2. 1 1/2 cup water
  3. 1 teaspoon kosher salt.
  4. 2 Tablespoons olive oil
  5. 1 small red pepper chopped
  6. 1 small onion finely chopped
  7. 1 teaspoon turmeric
  8. bunch of cilantro
  9. salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Bring water and teaspoon of kosher salt to a boil.
  2. Add couscous cover with top and remove form heat.
  3. In pan heat olive oil
  4. Saute red pepper, and onion for 2 minutes or until onions are tender.
  5. Add couscous and turmeric.
  6. Toss everything together.
  7. Mix in chopped cilantro.
  8. salt and pepper to taste
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 This version of Spanish Rice is creamy, with a little spice and provides major side dish comfort!

It’s creamy and soft and has a risotto like consistency and I promise you will feel like you spent hours in the kitchen after tasting this delightful yet so simple side dish. 

This recipe goes great paired with Roasted Veggie Quesadillas.

I’ll just get right to this easy recipe! 

 

Creamy Spanish Rice
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Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
25 min
Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
25 min
Ingredients
  1. 1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
  2. 1 small onion chopped
  3. 1/2 green bell pepper chopped
  4. 1 clove garlic chopped
  5. 1 cup long grain rice
  6. 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  7. 1 can evaporated milk
  8. 1 1/2 cup water
  9. 1 Tablespoon chicken base
  10. 1 teaspoon cumin
  11. 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
  12. 1 Tablespoon butter
Instructions
  1. Heat vegetable oil.
  2. Cook onion, bell pepper, and garlic.
  3. Add rice, cumin and tomato paste, mix around the pan.
  4. Add milk, water, chicken base, paprika, and butter.
  5. Bring everything to a boil.
  6. Replace top onto pan and turn heat to low.
  7. Simmer on low for 20 minutes, or until rice is cooked.
  8. Serve topped with cilantro!
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When you have four little one’s and a husband you need a space of your own, this is it, mom cave 2K.  It’s a great place for me to write and kind of release. I love to cook, I love to eat and regardless of where life takes me I will ALWAYS cook, my heart is all in it! So basically I do this for me, I love seeing my pics, how I’m improving and how I can further improve. Well this is just a random post of food that I have cooked the past couple of weeks. When it looks good I’ll snap a pic…and this is what you get !

I will eventually do recipes to go with these pics, but being a mother of four, to say I have a limited amount of time for myself well that would still be an under statement!

Garlic Lime  Steak Quesadillas…NomNom

Simple Classics….Yellow Cake….Chocolate frosting…everything homemade…..everything….. Nom

BBQ Curry Chicken…Nom…

With creamy peas and rice…NomNom…..

 

Oven BBQ ribs…in my delicious homemade BBQ sauce…recipe coming soon NomNomNom!

And for the most delicious thang I ate all week…………..

CHEEKS! NomNomNomNomNom

 

 

 

 

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