Couscous with Pine Nuts and Currants Recipe

Free Recipe Couscous with Pine Nuts and Currants

Recipe Type: Free Fruit Recipes
Recipe Preparation: boil
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 16

Ingredients for Couscous with Pine Nuts and Currants Recipe

1/2 lb Fresh mushrooms; sliced
1/4 c Pine nuts
1/2 c Unsalted butter
— melted and divided
1 c Onion; chopped
1/2 c Celery; chopped
1/2 c Fresh parsley; chopped
2 Garlic cloves; minced
1/4 c Currants; dried
1/2 ts Each salt and pepper
1/2 ts Herbes de Provence
3 c Canned chicken broth
— diluted
16 oz Package couscous

Couscous with Pine Nuts and Currants Preparation

Saute mushrooms and pine nuts in 2 tb. melted butter in a small skillet, until mushrooms are tender. Remove from heat; set aside. Saute onion, celery, parsley and garlic in remaining 1/4 cup plus 2 tb. butter in a large skillet until tender. Add reserved mushroom mixture, currants and seasonings; stir well. Add chicken broth; bring to a boil. Add couscous, stirring well. Cover, remove from heat, and let stand 10 minutes or until liquid is absorbed. Recipe from Iris Cosnow in _Hemi-demi-semi Flavors_ by The Chamber Music Society of the North Shore/Glencoe, IL. In _America’s Best Recipes: A 1990 Hometown Collection_. Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, Inc., 1990. Pg. 218. ISBN 0-8487-1009-6. Electronic format by Cathy Harned. From Gemini’s MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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