DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Couscous
Also known as: الكسكس, كسكس
Steamed couscous with chicken, vegetables, chickpeas and a seasoned broth.

About Couscous
Amour de cuisine presents this chicken couscous as a traditional Algerian family preparation. The grain is moistened and steamed in stages above a pot of chicken and vegetables, then worked with butter.
Carrot, turnip, courgette, potato and chickpeas accompany the chicken. Onion, preserved tomato, paprika, ras el hanout and chillies flavour the broth beneath the steaming grain.
The finished couscous is arranged on a serving dish with vegetables and chickpeas around it and chicken in the middle. Broth moistens the grain, and the assembled dish is served hot.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Couscous
Amour de cuisine's traditional Algerian chicken couscous.
- CouscousBase
- Chicken leg piecesProtein
- OnionAromatic
- CarrotBase
- TurnipBase
- CourgetteBase
- PotatoBase
- Dried chickpeasBase
- Preserved tomatoSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Ras el hanoutSeasoning
- PaprikaSeasoning
- ChilliesSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- OilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- ButterFinish
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Couscous: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual130 ordinary couscous identity confirms conventional Wheat; not hypothetical millet or corn substitute.
- Chicken leg pieces: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual131 cuisses de poulet, broader chicken mapping avoids exact thigh-only interpretation.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Carrot: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Turnip: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Courgette: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Potato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Dried chickpeas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual58 overnight-soaked dried option selected over precooked60, broader chickpea candidate.
- Preserved tomato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual138 tomate conserve by spoonful. Exact preserved/concentrated product form unspecified, no forced tomato-paste identity. Actual author reply442 puts tomato at beginning with chicken.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual139 generic pepper, colour/type unresolved.
- Ras el hanout: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named actual139 prepared blend, full formula unprovided.
- Paprika: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Chillies: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual140 piments and65 method; exact species unresolved.
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual141/24/63 grain and broth allocations, type unspecified.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit24/66/68 moisture/steaming broth; actual58 soaked-chickpea preparation retained, no added unlisted ingredients.
- Butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Method-only71/155 worked into steamed grain, Milk positive.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
Cuisines & regions
- Algerian Cuisine
- Algerian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Libyan cuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Moroccan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Moroccan Jewish CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Chaoui CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Algerian Jewish CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Mozabite CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Algerian Andalusian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Kabyle CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.