Comments on: Spicy ptitim (Israeli couscous)

By: Yosefa @nonrecipe

Yosefa @nonrecipe — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:51:44 +0000

That looks yummy!

Outside Israel, “Israeli Couscous” is round. Your picture shows what we would call “orzo.” My dad is from Argentina, which has a strong Italian influence, so we love pasta in all it’s shapes and names. The wikipedia entry is very interesting. I had no idea the origins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptitim

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:13:15 +0000

Lawrence, I totally agree! If it tastes good with whole wheat, all the better.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:12:39 +0000

Hi Sarah, absolutely. Ptitim are basically little bits of pasta
— that’s what your Israeli couscous is, right? In Israel people aren’t familiar with the term Israeli couscous. Outside of Israel, I think you can only get the round shape that you mentioned. Here ptitim come in all sorts of different shapes. Good luck!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:33:16 +0000

Are you sure that ptitim (which I have never heard of) is also called Israeli couscous? I have only seen isreali couscous to be large flat sided round balls. I’ll have to do some research on ptitim as it seems interesting regardless…

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:43:42 +0000

I did this with whole wheat couscous. While whole wheat pasta is often not so great, this was fabulous. This is the kind of dish that is good to eat to much of!

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:31:26 +0000

I’m jealous — it must be cooler there than here!

By: Yaelian

Yaelian — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:07:59 +0000

Those ptitim are among things I bring to my son in Finland! Greetings from a warm but cloudy Helsinki!