Very good Greek flavor. 10 hours is too long for this dish. I subtituted peas for okra, and cranberries for raisins--it was sweet--but very good over rice or cousous.

My mom and I had this for our "vegeatarian night". My dad is Greek and we are used to eating very exotic and flavorful foods. This deffinatly was extraodinary for us and the whole family loved it. The flavors were so unique with a bit of a spice. However, at the end I did pu tin a 1/2 cup olive oil because it was a bit wattery. Also, THIS DISH DOES **NOT*** NEED 10 WHOLE OURS!!!!!! It would turn to mush if tyou did that! It needs about 7 hours on low..(don't worry everything will be fully cooked). Other than that, this recipe was a deffinate 5 stars. Served over hot grainy brown rice!!

I had such high hopes for this recipe. i followed it exactly - except I used a tin of tomatoes instead of tomato sauce. Is this where I went wrong? I cut the veg into large diced pieces and cooked for 8 hours but it turned out very mushy and had a strange taste - quite sour. My husband is refusing to eat any more of this, even though I used up half our weekly veggies in it! I'm really not looking forward to taking it to work for lunch tomorrow. Sorry but I will not be making this again.

I enjoyed this one. I cheated a little bit because I did not have all of the ingredients. I left out the eggplant and the okra. I did use the butternut squash,onions,garlic,carrots,fire roasted diced tomatoes, and I added fresh cauliflower. The flavors of the spices were really good and different. I also added golden raisens and used fat free/low sodium chix broth. Loved the chick peas. This was a nice change of pace. Thanks!

Nice blends of taste...a little dry.

I picked out the smallest butternut squash (4lbs) I could find at the store. After cubing 1/2 of the squash, it was enough to fill the crockpot half way and everything else just fit under the lid. The only thing I added to the recipe was a Jalapeno instead of the red pepper. It turned out great! We really liked it and will make this again. We served it with a loaf of French bread and a salad - YUM!

Even my husband who likes very heardy meals liked this one. He did eat considerably more than what is considered one serving, but with such a healthy low cal meal that is fine.

I loved this stew. It was full flavored and not at all bland or "strange". Even my daughter, who hates almost everything, enjoyed this stew. I will definitely make it again.

Simple, healthy, and quite flavorful.

This was good. I added extra garlic(because we like). I didn't have tomato sauce so I used 'spicy red pepper spaghetti sauce. I also had left over deer loin and added it as my guys won't eat much without meat. I needed to add extra liquid 1/2 way thru. I only cooked four hours and yes some of the vegies were mushy but that only thickened up the stew. I cut my vegies larger so they wouldn't be too overcooked and didn't thaw the okra.

Wow! What a great use of the crock pot. I didn't think I'd like it, but I LOVE it. I only make one-dish meals in the slow cooker, and that limits you to soups and stews, pretty much. This is definitely a different flavor in stews! I admit, my 8-yr-old wouldn't eat it - she only picked out the squash and carrots. But she's going through a picky phase. My 2-yr-old gobbled it all down. I left out the okra (didn't have) and swapped in a can of diced tomatoes for the tomato and sauce. I pretty much scaled back the recipe to about 3/4, to fit in my crock pot. Loved the spices, subtle but exotic. Served over basmati rice. This would have been fantastic with some good feta cheese, but I'm pregnant so that will have to wait a few more months.

I love this stew but the prep time for me was more like an hour...worth it tho.

The vegetables were complete mush and the flavors were just not good.

We just had this for dinner and it was yummy but only after I played a little. I would give the original recipe 4 stars. I did leave the raisins out just because I don't really like them. When I first tried it I liked it but was not in love. So I decided to put some goat cheese on top and bake it at 350 for a few min. just to get some color on the cheese and serve over brown rice. Definitly a keeper!

I thought it was pretty good, but not my favorite. I think I will try it again and just switch around what vegetables I use. The only hard part is since all the vegetables got so mushy you couldn't tell what you were eating when ... it just kind of turned into a glob. But at least it was a tasty glob.

I have, what I think is, an avg size crock pot. I ended up leaving out 1/3 of the squash, 1/2 the okra and some eggplant to fit it all in! Definitely different. A good way to cook eggplant. I served it w/gnocci (potato pasta). My husband liked it, I thought the seasonings were off - and I love all those in the receipe. We had left overs, so the next day made Couscous and made a veggi burrito w/the stew, cheese, couscous and Louisiana hot sauce - Now THAT was GOOD!!!! A good, very healthy receipe, but you'll probably need to make little changes for it to suit your taste.

Easy, healthy but seasonings were just not all that great.