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Recipes with the precooked couscous – Italian Cuisine

Precooked couscous can be a solution for a last-minute dinner: here are our recipes to do in maximum 25 minutes

Dinner sometimes comes too fast. In the sense that sometimes you arrive at dinner time in a flash and you don't have time to put together a tasty dish in a few minutes and with the ingredients we have at home.
That's why we recommend putting the precooked couscous in your shopping list: the real cous cous should be steamed two or three times, but the precooked one has already been cooked so it is prepared in a very short time and is ready in a few minutes to be seasoned and served at the table.

How to dress the precooked couscous

The precooked couscous goes well with stewed meat and fish but, in the absence of time, it can be seasoned with quick seasonings: chopped capers and cherry tomatoes; sautéed with onion, pancetta, peas and lots of parsley; pesto and sautéed courgettes (or even raw courgettes); boiled eggs and tomato sauce.

5 quick recipes with couscous

the ingredients used for the pasta salad – Italian Cuisine

A perfect single dish for the summer, but take care that in the preparation there is everything: carbohydrates, animal or vegetable proteins, fats and spices

There are different schools of thought among nutritionists around the world. There are those who say that we must separate carbohydrates from proteins, who gives a portion of pasta a day and only for lunch and who instead fights for the primacy of proteins on all other nutrients.
To get everyone to agree, we have decided that we will do this summer full of unique dishes, a little bit because nobody wants to cook more than one course, partly because we need energy to face the heat that awaits us in the coming weeks.
But how should a single dish be structured to be balanced and perfect for our diet? The elements that must not be missed are carbohydrates, animal or vegetable proteins, fats and spices.

Pasta salad: the right proportions

The proportion of the ingredients is fundamental and therefore: 1/4 of the dish must consist of rice or whole wheat pasta, 1/4 of blue fish, lean meat or legumes, 1/2 of cooked or raw vegetables. You can eat two unique dishes a day, one for lunch and one for dinner, but be careful, they must not be identical: pfor example at dinner you can choose legumes or fish and for lunch meat.
As always, the important thing is to vary!

Fats that are good for health

In the single dish there must also be the right amount of fat which are fundamental to health. Among the fats we can choose those good ones, or i Omega 3 contained in dried fruit and fish, but also i monounsaturated which are found mainly in extra virgin olive oil.
And to give a touch of flavor to the dish without adding calories, just use aromatic herbs and spices in quantity, which also help to digest better and stimulate the metabolism.

Here it is now five recipes to prepare delicious pasta salads

Beaten egg: the perfect recipe – Italian Cuisine

An ancient, sweet, easy-to-prepare protein breakfast that kids love. But also comfort food for adults and a natural remedy for exhaustion

It is as if we had put the sun in a glass. It is the intense yellow of thebeaten egg: A soft, fragrant, very sweet cream. You say beaten egg and the grandmother or mother who prepared it for breakfast or mid-afternoon snack resurface. But the beaten egg was also a sweet medicine that was given to children (and not only) when they were influenced or appeared a little wasted. In short, a sort of tonic or, as we would say today, a food supplement.
An always rigorously fresh egg, bought at the market directly from the peasant desks that came to the city with the freshly picked products. Today, instead, it is more common to buy eggs from the supermarket. The advice, since they will be consumed raw, is therefore to choose them very fresh and, possibly, organic.

Egg Liqueur (close-up shot) on wooden background

But one thing needs to be clarified: the beaten egg is not just for children. It's a comfort food that turns into dessert in the evening, to be enjoyed on the sofa while watching TV. All that sweetness refreshes and consoles us, perhaps after a tiring workday. But a beaten egg, well placed on a plate and decorated with a few biscuits, could also be an unexpected and moving dessert to offer to guests. Maybe correcting it with a little bit of coffee. Or sprinkle some cocoa.

The recipe for a beaten egg to remember

Difficulty: very easy
Preparation time: 3/4 minutes

Ingredients for a portion

1 fresh egg
1 tablespoon of sugar. The quantity can vary a little depending on how much you want it creamy. The more sugar you add the more creamy it will be.

Method

Break the egg and separate the yolk from the albumen. Put the yolk in a glass, add the sugar and beat it vigorously with a fork or a teaspoon until it reaches the desired creaminess.