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Seffa (Sweet Couscous with Almonds & Cinnamon)

Name: Seffa (Sweet Couscous with Almonds & Cinnamon)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 500 g medium couscous; 100 g butter; 100 g icing sugar; 150 g whole almonds, blanched and fried; 2 tsp ground cinnamon; Orange flower water, 2 tbsp; Salt

Morocco's festive sweet couscous: buttered grains mounded high under a veil of cinnamon, sugar and toasted almonds.

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1Moisten the couscous with salted water; steam 15 minutes in a couscoussier.

2Turn out, sprinkle with orange flower water and a little water; rub the grains apart; steam again 15 minutes.

3Repeat once more — three steamings make seffa cloud-light.

4Work in the butter generously until every grain glistens.

5Mound on a large dish into a cone; dust with icing sugar.

6Decorate in stripes with cinnamon; cover with the fried almonds; serve warm.