Ground Beef And Couscous Recipes [Make The Summer Enjoyable]

We always believe that good food means happiness. While the definition of happiness may differ from person to person, one thing for sure, a tasty and delicious dish can bring joy and excitement to you. Keeping that in mind we are here today with our ground beef and couscous recipes to make you happy right at your home. Stay with us throughout the article to know everything about this delicious recipe.

About Ground Beef And Couscous Recipes

Let’s imagine a summer day when you invited all of your best friends to your home for lunch. Now, you might be confused about what to cook for your friends. That would be the right time for cooking an instant recipe with beef.

When you combine beef with couscous, the taste will be outstanding and we bet, that will be a mouthwatering situation for you and of course for your friends as well. At YummyChilis, we always try to provide you with unique recipes so that you can enjoy your happy moments at your home.

Without any doubt, good and yummy meal brings happy moments. For cooking ground beef and couscous recipes, you will need only one and a half cups of ground beef. Trust us, this is the right amount of beef you will need. We don’t have any idea whether a dish can be made without a combo of garlic, onion, and ginger. No exception here at all.

One tablespoon red chili powder combining with one tablespoon white pepper will balance the spice of the dish. When it comes to cooking beef marinating the meet correctly is crucial. We used yogurt to marinate the beef properly. You already know one of the important ingredients of this recipe is couscous.

Now, are you unsure about the quantity of the couscous that you need for this recipe? It’s important to add the right amount of couscous in this recipe for ensuring the proper distribution of the taste.

Take one cup of couscous for this particular recipe. This will be good enough to turn all of the ingredients into the yummy ground beef and couscous recipes.

Check out the complete recipes below.

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Ground Beef and Couscous Recipes

This delicios ground beef and couscous recipe can be made within 40 minutes and you can serve it to 4 people.

Prep Time15 mins

Active Time25 mins

Total Time40 mins

Course: Lunch

Cuisine: turkish

Diet: Low Salt

Keyword: Ground beef and couscous recipes

Yield: 4 people

Equipment

• 2 Non stick saucepan
• Large bowl
• Spoon
• Cooker

Materials

Beef

• 1.5 cups ground beef
• 2 tbsp garlic (minced)
• 1.5 tbsp ginger (minced)
• 1 cup onion (finely chopped)
• 1 tbsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp cumin powder
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp white pepper
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• salt (as per taste)
• yogurt (for marination)
• lemon zest (for flavor)

Couscous

• 1 cup couscous
• 1 small carrot (cube in size)
• 1 tomato (cube in size)
• red bell pepper (cube in size)
• yellow bell pepper (cube in size)
• 3 cups broth
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 tsp mixed herb
• chili flakes
• mint leaves

Instructions

• Take a large bowl. Add ground beef, garlic, ginger, red chili powder, turmeric powder, and all other spices mentioned in the “beef ingredient group”.Then add salt as per taste. Add yogurt for making the beef tender and lemon zest for extra flavor. Rest the mixture for 15 minutes.
  
• Take a nonstick saucepan. Add olive oil and keep it at low heat. Add onion and wait until it gets brown. Then add marinated beef and cook it for around 15 minutes.
  
• Get another nonstick pan and add oil. Fry all of the vegetables properly. Then add couscous and mixed herb. Mix them well. After adding the broth cook the whole mixture for around 5 minutes. Add the cooked beef and mix well. Keep it in the low heat for 5 minutes. After that adding mint leaves and serves the dish.
  

Notes

1. Although yogurt helps to make the beef tender, you can skip it if you want. In that case, use lemon juice instead of the yogurt. 
2. I used lemon zest for adding extra flavor. But, if you want, you can also skip it.

Relevant Information

In this section of the article, we will discuss all the things related to this recipe. In a general sense, couscous is a popular ingredient that makes the food more delicious. Let’s know something more about this unique ingredient.

What is couscous?

Couscous is a food item that is usually made by mixing water with the semolina flour. Now, if you don’t know what semolina flour is let us clarify you. These flours are made from durum wheat. You’ll find three types of couscous in this world-Moroccan, Israeli and the Lebanese.

Making eatable couscous is pretty much straightforward. Just take some dried couscous and pour boiled water on it. After five to fifteen minutes, it will be ready for you. On top of that, vitamin B and vitamin E are available in it, but in a very little amount.

Nutrition in couscous

As you already know, semolina flour is the main source for making couscous, it is full of carbohydrates. It contains some proteins and fiber as well.  The amount of fat is too low in the couscous and there is no salt at all.

Besides, you’ll find some minerals in couscous. For instance, keeping couscous in your daily diet chart will increase the amount of calcium, zinc, and iron in your body. However, it comes with a good amount of gluten. So, if you have a gluten intolerance, you should not take couscous recipes frequently to make your health risk-free.

The Healthy Portion Size of Couscous

There is no doubt that taking excessive carbs and starchy foods are not good for your health. Couscous is full of starch and carbohydrates. So, a person with any kind of heart disease should control their daily couscous intakes. Besides, diabetes patients should also be careful about the portion size of couscous.

However, if you can take it along with other high protein foods, and ingredients that have no starch, it will be beneficial for your health. Many experts testified that you can keep couscous in your daily diet chart.

If you want to know about the healthy portion of couscous, you can safely take 80-100g of cooked couscous as a single portion. And, when it combines with the ground beef, you will not only get protein from it, the taste of every bite will be just outstanding.

Final Words

Ground beef is a perfect example of taste and yum. Especially, when it cooked with couscous, you will feel nothing but the taste. Ground beef and couscous recipes can allow you to feel the aroma and yum of the recipe. In this article, we tried to give you a delicious recipe that you can meet within no time. We hope, you can make this recipe at your home to make your family happy.