Couscous as a breakfast rather than a side. It needs no cooking at all, only boiling water and five minutes, which makes it the fastest hot breakfast on this site.
- Almonds toasted dry for ninety seconds first, while the pan is empty and clean. Out onto a plate.
- Couscous, milk powder, cinnamon and salt into a bowl, whisked together dry so the milk powder does not clump.
- Boiling water to about 1.2 times the volume of the couscous. Plate on top.
- Five minutes. Then forked through properly to separate the grains.
- Marmalade stirred in while hot so it loosens and spreads.
Marmalade rather than jam, deliberately. The bitterness of the peel is the only thing stopping this being a bowl of sweet starch, and it is what makes it work.
Serves 2.