Use rice cooker (tatung pot) for couscous steaming (couscoussiere)

Cuisine Food & Drink
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Any north Africans here, or others that can help out?

I want to cook lamb couscous like this. I did find tons of recipes to cook it just like rice in the rice cooker / tatung pot.

But what I’m wondering about is a way to steam it over the broth/meat/veggies. Eg. steam the couscous at the same time as cooking something else in the rice pot.

I have a bamboo dumpling steaming thingy that sits on top of the tatung pot. I guess I’ll try this one. But how to line it so that the couscous doesn’t fall through the cracks? My best idea is use a cheesecloth (Taiwanese cloth cooking bag). Other ideas? Perforated baking paper? Sieve?

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Ya those steam bags work wonders if you are layering thjngs to be steamed. Ask the shops and say you are using those stackable bamboo round things over a pot of water to steam. They have this stuff premade to fit various sizes nd works wonders!

It is amazing couscous isnt more of a thing here. Given the rice culture, long history and mass use of cassava and ready supply…every single taiwanese person who I have eaten it with.loves it! Similar to millet for them but so much better…