ORANGE BREAD WITH COUSCOUS
Orange bread with couscous a traditional Sicilian recipe with orange blended into the dough and couscous added; a very soft and fragrant dessert for breakfast or snack for young and old alike
Ingredients
- 50 g organic couscous
- 50 g of hot water
- 3 medium eggs
- 250 g of caster sugar
- 300 g of 00 flour
- 125 ml of seed oil
- 1 untreated orange ( 250-300g)
- 60 ml of orange juice or water or milk
- seeds from half a vanilla pod or vanilla extract
- 1 packet of baking powder
- A pinch of fine salt
Icing
- 90 g of orange juice
- 100 g of granulated sugar
Watch the video recipe on YouTube by Anna Creations in the Kitchen
Preparation
Add the hot water to the cous cous, stir, cover, and let rehydrate for 10 minutes. After the resting time has elapsed, shell with a fork.
Crack the eggs into a bowl, add the vanilla, salt, and sugar, and begin to whisk.
Wash the orange, remove the ends, cut it into small pieces, remove any seeds and blend it with a tiny bit of oil until it becomes a cream.
When the eggs have become light, puffy and frothy, add the oil and whipped orange and continue to mix
Add the sifted flour together with the yeast, the squeezed orange juice ( or water or milk) and mix until smooth and homogeneous
Finally, add the shelled cous cous as well and stir until it is incorporated into the mixture
Grease and flour a 24-26 cm diameter mold and transfer the dough into it, leveling the surface. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 40-45 minutes.
Let cool and then unmold.
Prepare the glaze by combining the sugar with the orange juice in a pan, stir to dissolve, bring to a boil and cook for about 3-4 minutes until thickened anyway.
Let cool then brush the glaze over the surface of the orange cake with couscous. Decorate with orange peels and slices as desired
