2007-03-17 06:33:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I actually love both. They are both good comfort foods. Unfortunately, I like white rice with lots of butter on it which is not very healthy. Couscous is healthier, but I always get the flavored varieties.
2007-03-17 06:38:17 · answer #1 · answered by Lin s 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rice is good most of the time. It's nice to order couscous in a restaurant or surprise yourself with it once in a while at home.
I say this because I cook and eat on a budget and couscous is a lot more expensive than rice.
Couscous is a really good way to get your pasta in when you are in a hurry though, it is such a small piece of pasta that it cooks just by adding hot water. It's like using Minute Rice only it isn't fake or instant formula food.
Excellent for extended backpacking menus for the same reason. Then you don't waste camping fuel trying to cook the food, and you don't burn the food on a fire. Plus it packs nice and is a classy little treat when you are out there.
For those who asked...couscous is tiny pasta, the granules are almost as small as sand or Cream of Wheat and hydrated it is still very tiny. It is African but pretty much made of the same thing as other pasta. Being so small it absorbs a lot of flavor from spices and such. It is served a lot like rice in recipes.
2007-03-17 13:53:44 · answer #2 · answered by musicimprovedme 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can eat rice just about every day, but I hate couscous.
2007-03-17 13:39:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
couscous is a pasta
and rice is rice is a grain
totally different but im morrocan so couscous
2007-03-17 13:41:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
for some reason i always buy rice, but when i have couscous i wonder why i keep buying rice instead.
2007-03-17 13:37:30 · answer #5 · answered by annie41378 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rice being staple food in South India, we eat more rice than any other serial's. To compensate we have it with lot of vegetable's, and wheat in form of "Indian bread" called CHAPATI or ROTI , as rice contains only starch and carbohydrate.
2007-03-17 13:41:23 · answer #6 · answered by manjunath_empeetech 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rice. Preferbably long grain wild rice added.
2007-03-17 13:45:52 · answer #7 · answered by Bigdog 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rice, it is a nice accompaniment to about anything, butter, eggs, steak, chicken, gravy in general, etc.
2007-03-18 21:14:51 · answer #8 · answered by char__c is a good cooker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
rice
2007-03-17 13:43:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most definately cous cous its much yummier and less stodgy than rice... cous cous soaked in veg stock with peppers, onions and courgettes yummy!
2007-03-17 13:45:02 · answer #10 · answered by jemski 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋