Meghan Markle Says We’ve Been Cooking Couscous Wrong for Years

Ahh, couscous. We love you because you’re basically pasta masquerading as a grain and because you’re as easy to make as boiling a pot of water. 

But until Meghan Markle published Together: Our Community Cookbook , we didn’t know how tasty you could be.

According to an ancient Algerian recipe inside, here’s the best way to cook it: soak the grain in a bowl of salted water for five minutes, then break it up with your fingers and steam it over a pot of boiling water in a fine-mesh sieve covered with foil. 

Sound like a whole lot of extra? It’s worth it: The results are twice as fluffy, royal promise.