Mon 18 Jan 2010
Recipe Fail: Chicken with Couscous.
Posted by De under Uncategorized
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The chicken turned out just fine. I actually improved it a bit with the addition of a lot of salt after I’d flipped the chicken over, toward the end of the roast.
But the couscous.
I want to like couscous. In fact, when I’ve had couscous elsewhere, I’ve liked it. My personal success with the stuff seems to be pretty spotty, though.
I pulled a recipe out of the Dec 09 issue of Bon Appetit: couscous with clementines, garbanzos, and olives, and dates. Sounds pretty good, eh?
Nope. Bland and dry, bland and dry.
I think I’m going to have to treat couscous like risotto and add at least half again the liquid specified by the instructions. Maybe it’s the altitude. Or maybe I just don’t like couscous as dry as most people do. Bleah. Eating this stuff was like eating sand.
I had couscous once at Blue Star that was HUGE, the size of large-pearl tapioca, and bathed in carrot puree. I loved it, saucy and squishy, like savory tapioca pudding.
Does anybody know whether that’s just regular couscous, overcooked, or something different?
I think what you’re looking for is Israeli couscous.
Really? I’ll have to find some.