Harry loves cous cous! It is so small and tricky for him to eat though that it usually ends up turning our kitchen into a couscous snow globe! It’s amazing how far a tiny piece of couscous can travel when it is thrown by a baby! These couscous fingers are a brilliant solution for how to give couscous without the mess and inevitable frustration caused by it slipping through baby’s fingers!
Here’s how we made them:
Ingredients
- 300g couscous
- 1 sweet potato
- 1/2 green pepper
- 1/2 yellow pepper
- 1 clove of garlic, crushed
- Large handful of grated cheddar cheese
- 1 low salt vegetable stock cube
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°c
- Wash, peel and chop the sweet potato into cubes.
- Boil the sweet potato until soft
- Whilst the potato is cooking, chop the peppers into small cubes.
- In a pan with a little unsalted butter or cooking spray, cook the garlic and peppers until soft.
- Drain the potato and return to the pan. Add the peppers and garlic and mix well. Mix the stock cube with boiling water and add enough of the stock to the pan to cover the other ingredients.
- Allow the mixture to cool, then blitz in a food processor until it forms a smooth liquid.
- Put the mix back in the pan and heat until it starts to simmer. Add the couscous and mix well.
- Remove the mixture from the heat, cover and leave for 10 minutes.
- Stir through half of the cheese.
- Press the mixture into a tin. I lined my tin with tinfoil to make it easier to remove the fingers later.
- Sprinkle the remaining cheese on top then bake in the oven for 25/30 minutes
- Once cooked, remove from the tray and slice into finger shapes. Transfer to a cooling rack to cool.
- Serve and enjoy!
Would these freeze?? If so how would you reheat?
I’ve frozen mine. Il defrost in the fridge then reheat in the oven x
Alas mine seem to fall apart and not hold any sort of shape …..would you have any ideas on what I did wrong???
Sorry to hear that yours fell apart. I made sure I pushed the mixture quite firmly into the baking tray so it was quite dense. When I took them out they rumbled slightly at the edge when cut but held their shape when picked up, kind of like a flapjack if that makes sense.
Thank you for the great recipe
I appreciated that you took a pic at each step that helped alot.
My first attempt was not bad but not the best.
I managed to put way to much water so i made lots of couscous he he
Once cooked mine did not come away very easily so next time i may mould them individually
Thanks again from Milton Keynes UK