This recipe is excellent. Instead of the dehydrated sundried tomatoes I used the ones sitting in olive oil at the antipasto section. They were way better. I still soaked them in the water and the added oil added a ton of flavour while keeping the tomatoes very soft. And the recipe says to use half a box of couscous which can be confusing. I buy my couscous from the bulk food store (its WAY cheaper) so I used a ratio of 2 parts liquid to 1 part couscous i.e. used 3/4 a cup of couscous with the 1 1/2 cups of water
I really enjoyed this flavorful and easy way to prepare couscous. I only had button mushrooms on hand and used leek instead of green onion.
There's not enough liquid when sauteing the sun-dried tomatoes and garlic. Keep lemon juice to a minimum but add extra water from time to time just to keep veggies moist; it will evaporate. Otherwise a tasty and healthy recipe.
I made mine with vegitable stock mushrooms 4 green onions celery broccoli plum tomatoes and added asparagus as a side yummmm great advice guys this recipe was awesome
I was worried that all of the strongly flavored ingredients would clash but it was a very tasty dish...even my 90+ year old grandparents liked it, it was flavorful but not too exotic. I used shitake mushrooms instead of portabello and it was good.
This was good but it's a bit heavy on the sun-dried tomato. Combined with the lemon juice it gave the dish a very strong tangy taste. Next time I'll cut the tomatoes to 1/2 cup and increase the mushrooms. I prepared it just a bit differently: I sauteed the mushrooms first to give them time to sweat and then I added the rest of the veggies and garlic. Plus I added the herbs when I mixed the veggies into the couscous rather than cooking them.
This was pretty tasty and easy. I made a few alterations. I used button mushrooms instead of portobello because I didn't have any on hand I added extra water to the pan while I was cooking the vegetables and I threw in a few dashes of crushed red pepper instead of the cilantro. Very tasty and healthy!
i took this to my best friends bbq yesterday those that tried it loved it! i used low cal spray instead of oil i didn't have fresh basil or cilantro i used dried. i also used button mushrooms. i will definately make again.thank you.
I loved this recipe! I wasn't sure about the "1 bunch" of green onions so I just used 4 whole green onions. Also I used already-moistened (but not marinated) sun-dried tomatoes so I cooked my couscous in vegetable stock. yum yum:-) (I don't know what the other review meant about not having enough liquid for the vegetables but nothing extra was needed for me. Cook over medium heat.)
Unfortunately we thought this was just okay. I won't be making it again. I followed the recipe all the way minus using the tomato water for the couscous. To substitute I added thick tomato puree and a little bit of chicken broth to get the flavor back in there. The tomatoes were very overpowering - I would recommend putting them in a food processor to get them into smaller pieces.
