Just boil water, dump in the contents, cover, steam and five minutes later you have table-ready pasta. In case anyone needs a review, couscous is a pasta made from semolina flour, a product of durum wheat.
Consumers often mistake couscous for a natural grain.
It is not. Dry couscous granules are not actual grains, like barley, for instance. They are shaped from a dough and just happen to look like grains. The North African staple is traditionally made by rubbing semolina dough until granules or beads of dough result. To cook, the granules are steamed until tender.