(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.
Semolina
Definition:
(n.) The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Romas Foord for Observer Food Monthly Series 4, signature challenge Makes 36 strong white bread flour 1kg salt 20g fast-action dried yeast 20g tepid water 800ml olive oil 4 tbsp pitted green olives 1kg, well drained fine semolina for dusting (optional) baking sheets 3, lined with baking paper Put the flour into the bowl of a large freestanding electric mixer fitted with a dough hook.
(2) (If you like your pasta a little chewier, you can replace some of the flour with its grittier cousin, semolina.)
(3) The group of foods producing an inhibitory action comprised milk and milk whey, cottage cheese, sugar, butter, sunflower oil, lard, rice and oat decoctions, mashed potatoes and potato juice, buckwheat porridge and semolina, wheat bread, raw eggs, and honey.
(4) A collaborative study was conducted to validate the use of the AOAC alkaline phosphatase method for mammalian feces in corn meal, 44.B01-44.B06, for 7 additional products: brown rice cream, oat bran, grits, semolina, pasta flour, farina, and barley plus (a mixture of barley, oat bran, and brown rice).
(5) Semolina and saffron dumplings with root vegetable stew (above) Guaranteed to brighten up a cold winter's day.
(6) The correlation analysis gave significant values for the relationship between semolina reactive SH content and pasta resistance to disintegration and between urea dispersible protein protein content of semolina and pasta volume increase on cooking.
(7) The influence of the preliminary fat intake on the rate of contrast capsules administered with semolina porridge and morning breakfast evacuation from the gastric stump and small intestine was studied in 39 patients with gastric resection according to Billroth II by means of the x-ray method suggested for quantitation of evacuatory function of the gastrointestinal tract.
(8) In quality evaluation tests lysine and tryptophan content, biological value and true digestibility were better in semolina and process-flour.
(9) Collaborators' recovery averages ranged from 21.7 particles (72.3%) for oat bran to 25.3 particles (84.3%) for semolina at the 30 particle spike level.
(10) 3 In a separate bowl, combine the semolina, flour, baking powder and salt.
(11) Serves 4-6 For the dumplings 275ml whole milk 1 garlic clove, finely chopped A pinch of saffron threads 200g coarse semolina 60g parmesan, finely grated 2 eggs A handful of mint leaves, chopped Salt and black pepper For the stew Olive oil 1 large banana shallot, peeled and finely chopped 1 garlic clove, finely chopped 2 carrots, peeled and chopped into 1cm dice 1 swede, peeled and chopped into 1cm dice 2 parsnips, peeled and chopped into 1cm dice 1 small celeriac, peeled and chopped into 1cm dice 100ml white wine 250ml vegetable stock 2 bay leaves 100ml double cream Salt and black pepper Mint leaves, for garnishing 1 To make the dumplings, bring the milk to the boil over a medium heat with the garlic and saffron.
(12) The semolina here is an important addition, lending texture, soaking up the syrup and giving a sunnily, exuberantly yellow crumb.
(13) A sensitive and precise liquid chromatographic method has been developed for the determination of total niacin in beef, semolina, and cottage cheese.
(14) In this study the glycemic and insulin responses to 50 g of carbohydrate in the form of white bread (WB), semolina bread (SB), white spaghetti (WS) and wholemeal spaghetti (BS) were compared in ten noninsulin-dependent diabetics.
(15) In modern Italy, according to the classic cookbook The Silver Spoon , these little dumplings can be made with cheese, day-old bread, spinach, walnuts, prunes, semolina, pumpkin, rice, ham, oats and even amaretti.
(16) Changes in the fractional composition of lipids isolated from millet, rice and semolina artificially infected with the microscopic fungus Fusarium sporotrichiella Bilai were followed.
(17) The cinetic study of free amino nitrogen and total soluble nitrogen of hard wheat semolina, when comparatively treated by thermal processings (convection and microwaves) shows a decrease conditioned by time and strength of heating.
(18) There were no significant differences among meals in mean GI except for meals based on roasted semolina or semolina-black gram dhal.
(19) Heavily dust the worktop with flour, plus some semolina if you have it, then carefully tip the dough from one of the tubs on to the floury surface.
(20) The glycaemic index (GI) and the triacylglycerol response were measured in thirty non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients given 50 g portions of five different conventional Indian meals containing semolina (Triticum aestivum) cooked by two different methods, or combinations of semolina and pulse (black gram dhal (Phaseolus mungo), green gram dhal (Phaseolus aureus) or Bengal gram dhal (Cicer arietum)).