(n.) A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(2) The director, best known for his 2007 film, Couscous , said he would be willing to contemplate some cuts in Blue is the Warmest Colour to allow the widest possible audience to see the work.
(3) Dates, Medjool or not, are fantastic in tagines of lamb or chicken, chopped into couscous or sliced into salads, particularly those containing some salty cheese and perhaps a bit of citrus.
(4) On the table are large and tasty sharing plates of Moroccan dishes such as tagine and couscous.
(5) Though that's another brilliant thing about MN, where else would you find instructions for fixing a broken leg using only drinking straws and a bowl of stale couscous?
(6) Just yesterday I found some three-day-old cod, and within minutes of asking I had 20 recipes, the couscous and olive one I would absolutely have tried, except there was an online chat with Vince Cable, a bit humourless when borntorun told him she'd had an erotic dream about him literally five hours earlier, but he did sign up to MN's Let Pants Be Pants campaign, fighting for no frills on girls' underwear *fist punch*.
(7) Serve on a bed of couscous with the parsley scattered over and a dollop of yoghurt on the side.
(8) Photograph: Kate Berry A handful of vegetables, early garlic, eggplant, zucchini, onion and pasata make a simple veg stew; add some fresh-cut parsley to a generous serving of couscous and you’ll soon see a happy man.
(9) Here are instructions for Iraqi date-filled pies, Tunisian couscous cakes and quinces in wine.
(10) In a second time 6 IDDM patients have eaten in a randomised order a meal made of pasta with tomato sauce (P = 11%, F = 30%, G = 59%) or couscous with vegetables and sauce (P = 10%, F = 37%, G = 53%).
(11) A dish of chicory with grapes that makes a perfect side order for air-dried ham and yet could be served as a principal dish; a bunch of spring carrots with a spicy dressing that could be considered as an accompaniment to grilled lamb or a main course with couscous.
(12) So on the menu there are wines and oysters from the temperate south of the country and new strains of rice (one a mini variety that looks a bit like couscous, another black and crunchy) that he has developed with a farmer in São Paulo state.
(13) After the photocall, the two had private talks then strolled to a separate tent for a lunch of olives and salad, followed by fish couscous.
(14) And anyway, according to surveys, France’s favourite dish is couscous.
(15) The male African lion, a four-year-old male named Couscous, had been raised from a cub at Cat Haven, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit organisation that operates the animal park.
(16) Uncooked couscous in water, couscous incorporated in a meal, and partially cooked macaroni given as a meal behaved as semilente carbohydrates as compared with uncooked cornstarch and glucose.
(17) After a feast of harira, tagine, couscous and copious wine, histories were shared and stories told.
(18) There's traditional couscous on Thursday lunchtimes too.
(19) In the bare kitchen of their home in the overcrowded Beach refugee camp, Amal Sharif, 45, bends over a steaming pan of maftoul – stewed chicken with couscous – as the younger of her 10 children run in and out in excited anticipation.
(20) The influence of a diet of couscous with chickpeas, a traditional Tunisian meal, or one providing iron as ferrous sulfate, on the utilization of 59Fe was evaluated in studies with rats.
Risotto
Definition:
(n.) A kind of pottage.
Example Sentences:
(1) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(2) I asked her what she thought of the freezing weather here and she said she was used to it.” At lunch, Kate dined on herb-infused vegetable terrine, poached salmon with dill hollandaise sauce, lemon pearl barley risotto and sautéed vegetables.
(3) 30g unsalted butter 2 tbsp olive oil 2 medium onions, peeled and finely chopped 2 large garlic cloves, peeled and crushed 2 tbsp picked thyme leaves 2 lemons, 1 shaved into long strips of zest and 1 finely grated 300g risotto rice 500g trimmed brussels sprouts, 200g shredded and 300g quartered 200ml dry white wine 900ml vegetable stock Salt and black pepper About 400ml sunflower oil 40g parmesan, roughly grated 60g dolcelatte, broken up into roughly 2cm chunks 10g tarragon, chopped 2 tsp lemon juice Put the butter and olive oil in a large frying pan over a medium-high heat.
(4) GB Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero, Piedmont, Italy 2008 (£28, The Wine Society ) This has the classic barolo paradox of power (14.5% alcohol) and ethereal fragrance (rose floral and subtle earthiness), but there's a ripeness and generosity of fruit here that you don't always find in nebbiolo at this age: a treat for wild mushroom risotto or pulse-based stews.
(5) Grate some rind into risottos, pasta sauces, stews and puddings (but don't grate too deep – the white pith doesn't taste good.)
(6) Each afternoon, dishes such as warm salad of potato, fried egg and Clonakilty black and white pudding; spaghetti carbonara; porcini risotto; or peppery, perfumed pastrami with remoulade and pieces of what resembled XXL melba toast, are all knocked out at £6.50.
(7) Risottos and quiches tend to take on a uniform, pudding-like texture."
(8) Our sushi, vegetarian risotto, snacky little chicken kara-age bao, one steak, one burger (both with accompaniments) plus delivery and service, comes to £99.69.
(9) It exists purely as a broadbrush gambit in the attritional process of freaking out his closest rivals: we picture Arsène Wenger coughing awkwardly on the Emirates bench and going for a bit of a walk along the touchline, Jose Mourinho discreetly wafting his coat-tails and muttering about last night's seafood risotto.
(10) As well as "omelettes and eggs whenever we are allowed to serve them", he offered the vaguely continental dishes of the time: bouillabaisse, risotto, goulash, quiche Lorraine; a dozen cheeses; and a choice of various coffees and teas.
(11) Serves 4 onion 1 small garlic 1 clove, chopped celery 1 small stick unsalted butter 30g, in 2 pieces olive oil 4-6 tbsp, plus a little extra for frying the sage salt a pinch bay leaf 1 fresh thyme a pinch pancetta 150g, chopped into small cubes risotto rice 300g (carnaroli is preferable) dry white wine 100ml hot chicken stock 1½ litres is more than enough trevisano 1 large, sliced into 1cm wide pieces parmesan 80g, grated lemon 1 sage 7 small leaves On a low heat sweat off the onion, garlic and celery in 15g of the butter and olive oil with a pinch of salt, then add the bay and thyme.
(12) If time permits, stop for lunch at Trattoria al Castelletto ( alcastelletto.com ), where the formidable Signora Clemi serves delicious dishes like pumpkin risotto or plump grilled porcini mushrooms.
(13) Looking at his website , I don't think Tuesday's seafood risotto, Wednesday's sizzling chicken fajitas or Saturday's mojito fruit salad would quite "weigh up".
(14) Cath cooked a lovely risotto, which was followed by a goat's cheese flan and a salad made by Jo.
(15) The Sunday buffet is incredible, with crab, prawns, mussels, fish risotto and a great seafood paella, best accompanied by some of their homemade cachaça (the base ingredient of caipirinha) free for all guests and served up in little clay pots.
(16) They will begin discussing the incredible meals they enjoyed in Italy – the seafood linguine, the-remarkable-risotto-in-that-family-restaurant-up-the-steps-that-very-hot-day, and then Brydon will go scurrying off on to the matter of Bobby Davro in a hot tub or Coogan will suddenly address the peculiar melancholy of business hotels: "One of those places that looks nice from the outside but it's got fire doors on the inside and those reinforcements they put on stairs – the rubber or brass strips on the steps.
(17) Open Mon-Sat 11.45am-6.30pm Coppi Facebook Twitter Pinterest City-centre sister restaurant to the highly regarded Il Pirata (toast of happening suburban ’hood Ballyhackamore), Coppi deals in a similar mix of cicchetti (small plates), pizzette and sharply executed pasta and risotto dishes.
(18) These are a little like the Italian arrancini, made by deep-frying leftover risotto.
(19) People favour risottos now, but before there was risotto, there was pilaff: buttery rice mixed with onions, garlic and tomatoes that have first been fried in olive oil.
(20) A steady stream of shoppers are filling their baskets with biscuits, fizzy pop, risotto rice and tins of tomatoes at Niftie’s grocery store in Dover on a cold January morning.