Start with couscous. Couscous vs. Berkoukesh .... كسكس و بركوكش

Couscous is probably the most beloved thing in algerian cuisine. We can buy it and save a bit time, but you can believe me-it's not worth, cause it's so very easy, so super quick and so very dellllicious!

Retoric question: better to buy it or make by yourself and suprise the one that you cook for?

All that you need is some semolina, ofc the best one is the fine one. Put it into a bowl. Take some water mixed with a salt and put just a little bit into semolina bowl. Mix it (stir) with your hand, like you play with a sand. If you don't like using hand, you can do this with a fork as well. So stir it and add a bit more water again, and keep adding (carefully) until you will see, that it starts to form into little balls like mine --->

Then grab a colander, can be like this one for pasta and put your ready balls there, and move it above your bowl, like you sieve a flour. All the little pieces will go down to your bowl and..congratulations! That's your couscous! :)

The big balls that you can see on the right are not rubbish. They call it "berkoukesh" and eating like couscous with many different meats and sauces. So you can freeze it or repeat all the process again, adding a bit of water to your "big berkoukesh balls".

Allright.
If we have our couscous already, we need to know how to cook it. So forget cooking it in a water. You need to steam itso if you don't have accurate equipment, you can use a gause and spread it on your pot (containing some water), with a thread around. Put your couscous on a gause and let it steam. Or just use a stainer (sieve) with fine holes (non plastic! :D) and put it onto pot with water, let the water boil and you move your couscous with a fork every few minutes, until will be yumi.

That's all!
Next step is a meat and a sauce :)