Couscous with tomato pesto
This is a deliciously different way to prepare couscous. Roasted pecans are tossed with couscous, sauteed mushrooms, Parmesan and sun dried tomato pesto. It goes particularly well at summer picnics or BBQs.
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 75g pecans
- 15g butter
- 100g fresh button mushrooms, quartered
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh garlic
- 2 teaspoons butter
- 300ml water
- 165g couscous
- 1 (290g) jar sun dried tomato pesto, such as Sacla's
- 25g finely grated Parmesan cheese or more to taste
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:30min ›
Ready in:50min
- Spread the pecan pieces onto a baking tray and place in a cold oven.
- Heat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4 to begin roasting the pecans. Roast until aromatic, 20 to 30 minutes.
- Melt 15g butter in a large frying pan over medium heat. Cook the mushrooms, onion and garlic in the melted butter until softened, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
- Return the frying pan to the heat. Melt 2 teaspoons butter in the frying pan. Stir the water into the butter; bring to the boil.
- Put the couscous in a glass bowl; pour the butter and water mixture over the couscous. Immediately cover the bowl with cling film and allow to sit until the couscous absorbs all of the moisture, 7 to 10 minutes.
- Fluff the couscous with a fork. Stir the toasted pecans, the mushroom mixture, the pesto and Parmesan cheese through the couscous. Season with salt and pepper to serve.
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Reviews in English (12)
This is pretty good, though there's a tang in the pesto that is a little off to my taste. I was wary about the pecans but they were the best part! Glad I didn't leave them out. I did leave out the mushrooms, as I'm not a fan, and I didn't use an entire onion either (maybe 1/3). I'll be sure to make it again. - 19 Jun 2010 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
This was perhaps the most successful meal with my new vegetarian family yet! My wife and step daughter want it weekly so I will probably make it monthly. What a fantastic combination of ingredients. Watch the pecans though. They cook very fast and burn very easily. I had to cook 2 batches of pecans b/c they burned based on the cooking time. - 28 Jan 2011 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
this was ok. it was kind of bland for my taste. - 10 Apr 2011 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)