Couscous

Couscous, not actually a grain but a form of pasta, cooks quickly. Ideally, it is steamed over a spicy stew, from Stifado to Chicken and Lentil Tagine, and certainly you can do that. But you will probably prepare it more frequently if you treat it somewhat like rice, as I do here.

The couscous benefits from a short preliminary toasting, which brings out more flavor (otherwise, what you have i