How to cook: Couscous with salmon, peas and Parmesan cheese

What I like about couscous is that it is really quick dish. Using the electric kettle to boil water and then just five minutes ant it's done! Yay! All you have to do is prepare the mixture to go with it. This one is one of my favourites (the other one is with leaf spinach and walnuts and Parmesan). Truth is that I mixed a recipe for Italian risotto with a salmon (or a sea trout or what was it) I had in the freezer for some time and I really wanted to do something about it. The couscous served as light lunch after Christmas binging and even my fish-hating boyfriend enjoyed it (ok, I exaggerated a bit, he is not exactly fish-hater, he just doesn't like them much)...




What you need:
200 g of salmon /sea trout fillets (possibly any fish would do)
handful of peas (frozen, canned, fresh, depends on you)
three handfuls of couscous
60 g of Parmesan
1 really tiny onion or half a regular one
two spoons of oil
spoon or two of flour
water, salt, pepper, red pepper, leftover wine (optional)

What you do: As in many of my recipes chop the onion finely and throw it in the pan with preheated oil. You have like fifteen minutes before it turns brownish (you cannot turn the stove on full you know!), so prepare the fillets, use pepper, salt and red pepper (not necessarily red hot pepper) and mix these with flour and wrap the fillets in this mixture. Throw them on the pan and sear them on both sides. Now you should have brownish onions and seared fish, so ad the peas and pour some wine (one decilitre is enough, you can use water instead) and let it bubble. Meanwhile pour water in the kettle and wait till it boils. Use appropriate amount for the couscous in some bowl (it should be written on the package, it should be twice the amount of couscous) and salt, then cover it and let it prepare itself for five mins. As for the fish-peas mix, you should disassemble the fillets (it should go easy now, nice and soft), mix it with the peas and if necessary, add some more spices. When the couscous is nice and ready, add it to the pan (if the pan is not big enough, you can do the exact opposite and pour the mixture in the couscous bowl). Now add the secret ingredient - the Parmesan cheese and voila! Nice and quite healthy dish can be served!