Hajar's Comfort Dessert Couscous

OOOOH! Will that do?! This is definitely a comfort food for me especially on a cool/cold evening warm and is teriffic for breakfast as well. We usually eat it cold for breakfast as we cannot be bothered to re-steam and it is just as lush cold/room temperature. A Moroccan home cooked classic! This recipe makes A LOT! Though it does freeze or you can split the recipe in half. No chance of either here,,,it goes! c.\2005

• Ready In: 1 hr 35 mins
• Serves: 10

Ingredients

• 5  cups couscous, uncooked
• 2  tablespoons  vegetable oil
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 3  teaspoons cinnamon
• 3⁄4 cup olive oil or 3⁄4 cup milk, i prefer milk though many use the oil both the olive oil and milk
•  cinnamon
•  icing sugar
•  prune, snipped
•  dates, snipped
•  raisins
•  almonds, as required, any semi dried soaked fruits. Nuts. I use the

Directions

1. Cover raw couscous with cold water & drain immediately. Stir with a fork & let rest for 15 minutes.
2. Sprinkle with the vegetable oil mix with 6 tb water along with the salt & cinnamon. Mix well using your hands until the liquid has been uniformly absorbed.
3. Place couscous in the top of a coucousier & [place over boiling water.
4. Steam for 30 minutes & remove from the heat. Return couscous to a bowl & mix in half the olive oil or milk using your hands. Allow to cool & then sprinkle with 3/4 c water. Mix well & set aside until it has absorbed all the water.
5. Return to the couscousier & steam for another 15 minutes. Return to the bowl, add half the remaining oil or milk & mix with your fingers. Steam again for another 30 minutes. Return to the bowl for one last time & mix in the rest of the oil or milk or 1/2 milk and 1/2 oil.
6. Arrange coucous in a cone shape on a large serving platter. Decorate attractively with the garnishes & serve while still hot. Great cold for breakfast as well!
7. This is a make the couscous and the rest is garnish recipe. In my area, Oujda we prefer pistachios and will then add almonds to the pistachios if we have them.