“Date Night” Pork Chops over Creamy Parmesan Couscous
“Date Night” Pork Chops over Creamy Parmesan Couscous
by eclecticmom
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eclecticmom
This turned out delicious in the end after I improvised on the sauce, but I don’t understand how the cheese roux was supposed to work?
It said to put the couscous, 1 cup of water, cream cheese packet, cheese roux packet, and parmesan in all at once and cook for 30-60 seconds. I hesitated because it didn’t seem like that was going to combine smoothly but trusted the instructions and… after 60 seconds it looked like chunky, watery couscous soup.
I panicked and drained it, made a butter/flour roux and added the liquid back in to remake the sauce in the way I’m used to making a cheese sauce, then mixed the couscous into it.
I’m so curious though whether this was bad instructions or I did something wrong! Is there some kind of thickener in the cheese roux packet that maybe I just didn’t wait long enough for it to thicken?
I joked with my kids that maybe Hello Fresh intentionally made the “date night” meal have bad instructions so you can spot the red flags in how your date handles the disruption haha.
cmo112
I had this last night and kinda felt the same way about the couscous. I liked it, but wasn’t really what I was expecting?
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This turned out delicious in the end after I improvised on the sauce, but I don’t understand how the cheese roux was supposed to work?
It said to put the couscous, 1 cup of water, cream cheese packet, cheese roux packet, and parmesan in all at once and cook for 30-60 seconds. I hesitated because it didn’t seem like that was going to combine smoothly but trusted the instructions and… after 60 seconds it looked like chunky, watery couscous soup.
I panicked and drained it, made a butter/flour roux and added the liquid back in to remake the sauce in the way I’m used to making a cheese sauce, then mixed the couscous into it.
I’m so curious though whether this was bad instructions or I did something wrong! Is there some kind of thickener in the cheese roux packet that maybe I just didn’t wait long enough for it to thicken?
I joked with my kids that maybe Hello Fresh intentionally made the “date night” meal have bad instructions so you can spot the red flags in how your date handles the disruption haha.
I had this last night and kinda felt the same way about the couscous. I liked it, but wasn’t really what I was expecting?