Guest guest Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 is couscous considered raw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Couscous, as far as I know is a grain and contains gluten Helen - mzdjflye rawfood Sunday, July 20, 2003 5:28 PM [Raw Food] couscous is couscous considered raw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Couscous is not considered raw since it is pre-heated. I believe they are both at least par-boiled, then dried. Rose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Sorry about that. When I said " I believe they are BOTH... " I was referring to cousous and bulghur. I was typing faster than I was thinking. Rose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 Couscous is one of the staple foods of the Maghreb (western North Africa). Coucous is made from two different sizes of the husked and crushed, but unground, semolina of hard wheat using water to bind them. Semolina is the hard part of the grain of hard wheat (Triticum turgidum var. durum), that resisted the grinding of the relatively primitive medieval millstone. When hard wheat is ground, the endosperm--the floury part of the grain--is cracked into its two parts, the surrounding aleurone with its proteins and mineral salts and the central floury mass, also called the endosperm, which contains the gluten protein that gives hard wheat its unique properties for making couscous and pasta--that is, pasta secca or dried pasta, also called generically macaroni. Couscous is also the name for all of the prepared dishes made from hard wheat or other grains such as barley, millet, sorghum, rice, or maize rawfood , " Rose and Fred Lieberman " <pyrite@c...> wrote: > Sorry about that. When I said " I believe they are BOTH... " I was referring > to cousous and bulghur. > > I was typing faster than I was thinking. > > Rose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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