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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Dahi (Curd)Bendi

February 28, 2018
Dahi (Curd)Bendi
Ingredients:
1.Bendi or okra 1 lb ( 200g)
2. Curd 1 cup
3. One big onion
4. Chilli powder 1 spn
5.Daniya powder 1 tspn, jeera powder 1/2 Tspn.
6.Jeera 1 Tspn.
8. Tomato 1 count
9.Salt to taste.
Procedure:

1.Heat oil in a pan.Add jeera,when it splutters add cut onions.
2. I prefer adding 1/2 spn of grated or ginger cut into very small pieces to the pan.(optional)Stir fry onions till golden brown.Then add jeera,Daniya,chilli,turmeric powders .
3.Now add Bendi (I remove top and tail to the bendi).Mix and fry well for 3 to 5 mins.
4.Add tomato pieces and curd to the masala.cover with lid and cook well until Bendi is soft.
5.cook around 10 to 15 mins then our curry almost ready. Garnish with coriander leaves.Serve hot with chapathi or rice.

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Dalma( Orissa Special)

February 28, 2018
Dalma( Orissa Special)
Ingredients:
1.Toor dal 3/4 cup
2.chana dal 1/4cup
3.brinjal 2 count
3. One plaintain(raw banana or aaratikai)
4. Two potatoes 
5. Drumsticks 6 count( finger size length )
6. Paraval 6 count
For seasoning:fenugreek seeds, jeera,sahjeera,mustard seeds,oil,




For garnish:dry roast jeera,red chillies and make it fine powder.

Procedure:

1. Soak toor dal and chana dal for half an hr in water.
2. Add all the above vegetables mentioned above.
3.Now add turmeric powder and cook in a cooker for 2 whistles .(You may use5 cups of water for cooking)
4.Now season with above ingredients.You can use ghee for tadka for more tasty instead of oil.
5. Garnish with above mentioned ingredients.Dalma is ready now.You can have it with rice or chapathi .
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Bengali Goat Curry

February 28, 2018
Bengali Goat Curry
Ingredients:
1.Mutton 2lbs(nearly 1kg)
2.Potato medium size 4 to 5 count
3. Onion 1 big size
4.Ginger garlic paste 2 tspns
5.Tomatos medium size 2 count
6. Cinnamon,cardamom,lavang(each 3 count)
7.oil and salt to taste
8.pinch of sugar.
Preparation:
                 Marinate mutton with turmeric,chilli powder ,ginger garlic paste1tspn , one Tspn of mustard oil(optional) for at least half an hr.Prepare onion and tomato paste separately in a blender.
Garnish:dry roast cardamom,cinnamon and make it into fine powder.
Procedure:

1.Heat 3tbspn of oil and fry potatos until golden brow.Now remove from the pan and keep aside.
2.In another pan stir fry mutton until water evaporates for about 10 to 15 mins(this is because to get rid of the raw mutton smell,we are not using any oil)
3.Take pressure cooker add oil(we can use the left over oil which we used to fry potatos) you may add more oil if you think it is dry.Add whole spices cinnamon,dalchin,lavang.Fry few seconds.I add pinch of sugar in the oil for color.
4.Add onion paste and fry well until oil comes out from the paste.Now add 1tspn of ginger garlic paste and fry well.After few mins add tomato puree and fry until masala is well cooked(the oil oozes out from the masala)
5.We can add a bit of store bought kadai mutton masala for color.I add 1spn of kadai mutton masala.
6.Now it's time to add mutton and potatos to the masala and fry few mins.
7.It will take 3to 4 whistles to cook mutton.After one whistle we can take out potatos.
8. Now remove the cooker lid after 4 whistles. Now add potatos and check out the gravy if you want thick gravy you can just boil few more mins.
9.Garnish with cardomom,cinnamon powder(sprinkle 1/2spn top of it)

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Batani (Vatana) Curry(White Dried Peas)

February 28, 2018
Batani (Vatana) Curry(White Dried Peas)
Whole yellow peas are part of the legume family.Yellow  vatana are dried light colored whole peas.These small round dried peas are hard and need to be soaked for few hours to reduce the cooking time.Here iam going to share my mom recipe which is very easy and tasty.It is very tasty recipe can be cooked with few ingredients.

Ingredients:
  1. Batani or vatana 2 cups
  2. Onion 1 big
  3. green chilli 3 
  4. ginger& garlic crushed 2tbspn(or) 1 tbspn ginger garlic paste
  5. chilli powder 1 tspn
  6. turmeric powder 1/4 tspn
  7. mustard 1/4 tspn
  8. jeera 1/4 tspn
  9. garam masala 1 tspn
  10. chat masala 1/4 tspn optional






Preparation
Soak batani whole night or atleast 5 to 6 hrs.You can cook in a pressure cooker for atleast 1 whistle.I usually cook in a open pan.Some times it will be mashy if we cook in a cooker.If Iam in rush, will cook batani in a cooker.Usually I switch of the cooker before it blows the whistle.( when it just gives beep sound)

procedure:

  1. Heat oil in a pan.Add mustard,jeera followed by chopped onions,green chilli.Fry few secs then add crushed ginger&garlic, fry until onions turn golden brown.
  2. Add  batani directly to the pan( if you soak it overnight,drain  it and keep water aside )Add chilli powder ,turmeric,salt fry few more mins.
  3. Add enough soaked water for the gravy and cover the lid,you can add chat masala if u want  nice flavor.
  4. cover with a lid until batani is well cooked.This takes around 30 mins.
  5. Remember if you cook batani in a cooker it takes around 10 to 15 mins to prepare the whole curry.
  6. Now  when the curry is almost ready add 1 tspn of garam masala.( key ingredient) 
  7. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with chapathi,roti,Nan. simply it goes well with rice too.You can sprinkle very finely chopped onions on top of it.


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Aratikai (Raw Banana Or Plantain)Cutlet

February 28, 2018
Aratikai (Raw Banana Or Plantain)Cutlet
Ingredients:
1.Aratikaya 2 count
2.onion 1 small one
3.green chillies 3 count finely chopped
4.Ginger finely chopped 
5. Cumin powder 1 Tspn 
6.Aamchur powder 1/2 Tspn
7. Lemon juice 1 Tspn 
8.Coriander leaves finely chopped

Preparation:

       Cook Aratikai till it is  little bit soft.I cook in a pressure ,I usually off the cooker when it is about to give a whistle.Cut aratikai into big pieces.

Procedure

1.Take raw banana pieces in a bowl and add above mentioned ingredients,mix well.
2.Make small round balls( lemon size) and flatten the dough by gently pressing in your palm.
3. Now heat  a wide pan drizzle little bit of oil.
4.when the pan is almost hot arrange  it and  fry slowly until  it is well cooked .
5. Turn other side and fry few more minutes until it is golden brown.It is almost done now we  can have simply the cutlets or we can have with tomato sauce. 

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Dhaba Style Chicken

February 28, 2018
Dhaba Style Chicken
Ingredients:
1.chicken 1 lb(less than 1/2kg)
2.tomatos 2
3. One big onion
4.ginger garlic paste 2tspns
5.whole garam masala (lavang, cinnamon,cardamom each 2 count)
6.Kadai chicken masala powder(store bought I prefer MDH) 1 Tspn
7.Daniya and jeera powder each 1/2 tspns
8.chilli powder 1 Tspn
9.Turmeric powder 1/2 Tspn 
10.salt and oil.
Preparation: Grind separately onion into fine paste.Then  get ready separately tomato purée.
Chicken marination: add chilli powder,turmeric powder,1spn of ginger garlic paste,salt marinate at least half an hr.
Garnish:dry roast cinnamon and cardamom powder.
Procedure:

1. Take a wide pan and heat it .Add some oil when it is almost hot and then add whole garam masalas.You can add pinch of sugar to get nice color.
2.now add onion paste fry well few mins (4 to 5).Then add ginger garlic paste.After few mins when the oil oozes out from the masala add tomato purée and fry well until raw tomato smell disappears.
3.Now add Daniya and jeera powder,turmeric.
4. It's time to add chicken now.Fry chicken well in the masala .After few mins cover the pan with a lid and let it cook until oil comes out of the chicken.This takes around 15 mins.( it entirely depends upon the quality of chicken,if it's dry you can add water earlier)
5.Now we can add  enough water to the chicken.Let it cook for10 to 15 mins.Its almost ready now.
6.You can garnish with cardamom and cinnamon powder on top of it.
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Fish Curry In Mustard Gravy(Orissa Style)

February 28, 2018
Fish Curry In Mustard Gravy(Orissa Style)
Ingredients:
1.Fish fillets 4to 5 (king fish or vanjaram )
2.chilli powder1tspn
3.turmeric powder1/2tspn
4.garlic pods 5to 6
5.Poppy seeds(gasgasalu)
6.Daniya 1 Tspn
7.mustard 2tspns
8.jeera 1/2 Tspn 
9.green chillies3 count
10.Ginger garlic paste 1 Tspn ( optional)
11.salt to taste.
11.tomatos 2
Preparation:
I usually wash fish pieces and marinate with chilli powder,turmeric,salt and 1tspn of mustard oil at least half an hr.
Masala paste: soak mustard,garlic,jeera,Daniya ,gasgas at least 15 mins in waterand add green chillies,grind into fine paste.Take 2 Tomatos and make it into fine paste.
For tadka: chopped onions,jeera,mustard,oil
Procedure:
1. First fry fish fillets in mustard oil  in a wide pan.Fry until both sides fried well.It takes around 15 to 20 mins

2.Take out the fish fillets from the pan and keep aside.
3.Now take deep wide pan for the curry,add some oil and fry onions, little bit of jeera,mustard until onion turns brown.
4. Now add Tomato purée and fry well until oil oozes out from the curry.This takes around 5to 10 mins 
5.Its time to add wet masala paste and fry well until oil comes out from the masala.
6.Add some water around 2 to 3 cups to the masala and boil for few mins around 5to 10 mins.(you may add Aamchur pieces if you prefer more sore)
7.when the water is boiling ,drop fish fillets slowly in the water and cook for10 mins. Observe the gravy when the gravy is little watery you can cook few more mins.

8. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
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Egg Fried Rice

February 28, 2018
Egg Fried Rice
Ingredients:
1.rice  1 cup
2. Eggs 3 count
3. Beans,carrots each 1/4cup
4. Green peas less than 1/4 cup
5.green onions 1/4 cup
6.Azanamoto 2 pinch
7. Vinegar 1/4 Tspn
8. Soya sauce 1 Tspn
9.pepper 1/4 Tspn
9. Oil 2 tbsp
10.onion 1 count(medium size)
11. One spn of garlic and ginger finely chopped.
12 salt to taste.
Preparation:
Cook rice separately in a rice cooker and cool down.Cut all above mentioned vegetables.put these vegetables in a microwave for about 5 to 6 mins.
Procedure:

1. Take a deep wide pan and add oil heat it up.
2. Now add ginger and garlic finely chopped, add onions to the pan.
3. When onions are almost frying add little bit of pepper,salt.Its time to add eggs to the pan
4. Break the shells of 4 eggs and mix in the pan.Fry well  about 2 to 3 mins.
5. Now add Aznamoto ,venegar,soya sauce,Mix it well
6.next add all vegetables to mixture and fry well.
7. It's time to add cooked rice to the pan.mix well
8. Lastly add chilli garlic sauce to the pan.mix well
9. Garnish with fresh green onions.

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Pocket Sandwich

February 28, 2018
Pocket Sandwich
INGREDIENTS:
1.pocket sandwiches (we can get it in any stores where we get bakery items)
2.Capsicum chopped(1/2 cup)
3.Mushroom chopped(1/2 cup)

4.Eggs 2 count
5.Small onion finely chopped(preferebly red onion)
6.Olive oil
7.Crushed pepper
8.pinch of ginger garlic chopped very finely
9.Mayonnaise
10.Tomato 1 count(optional)
11.Salt to taste
Procedure:

1.Heat a wide pan.Add 1or 2 tspn of olive oil then drop finely chopped ginger&garlic.
2.Then, soon add chopped onions,capsicum,mushroom,tomatos and suate few mins.
3.Now crack the eggs in a bowl and pour it in the pan and fry well for 2 to 3 mins
4.Add pepper and salt ,mix it well for few mins.
5.Take out the mixture from the pan and stuff inside pocket sandiwiches.You can spread mayonnaise on top of it.Yummy sandwich is ready for breakfast.

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Prawns(Shrimp)Capsicum Fry

February 28, 2018
Prawns(Shrimp)Capsicum Fry
Ingredients:
1.Shrimp or prawns 1 lb
2.Capsicum1/2 
3.ginger garlic paste1 Tspn
4.Daniya powder1/2
 5.Jeera powder1/2 Tspn 
6.Garam masala1/2 Tspn 
7.Onion 1 big size
8. Green chillies 2
9.chilli powder1 Tspn
10.turmeric powder 1/2 Tspn
11. Oil 3 tbspns
12. Salt to taste

Marination: 

Marinate prawns with chilli powder,turmeric,salt,1/2 Tspn of ginger garlic paste1/2tspn,1 spn of mustard oil(optional).

Procedure:

1.Heat oil in a pan and add chopped onions,when onions almost turn golden brown add ginger garlic paste.Fry well until the raw smell goes off.
2.In another pan ,add 1 Tspn of oil just stir fry marinated prawns  for 5mins,and keep aside.
3.When onion,ginger garlic paste almost fry well,add Daniya powder,jeera powder a bit of chilli powder.Fry few mins,then add marinated prawns to the masala mix.
4.keep frying prawns until u can see the masala well coated with prawns.
5.Add 1/2 cup of water and cover with lid just few mins around 10 mins until prawns well cooked.
6.Remove the lid and fry well until the water evaporates.
7. Now it's time to add chopped capsicum to the pan.
8.Fry few mins around5 to 8 mins until we can see capsicum well coated with masala.Now the fry is ready .It goes well with rice and roti.

                 
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Saturday, February 3, 2018

No Yeast Cinnamon Rolls

February 03, 2018
No Yeast Cinnamon Rolls
These cinnamon buns convey NO yeast inwards them, but they certain gustatory modality similar they do. I convey to acknowledge that when I kickoff saw this was a baking pulverization dough, my kickoff idea was, "uh oh, a heavy biscuit texture", but I was wrong; these are FAR from the criterion biscuit taste. The dough has cottage cheese in addition to buttermilk inwards it in addition to it is super flaky, light, sugariness in addition to tender. I convey tried a lot of cinnamon whorl recipes over the years in addition to I tin honestly say y'all that this recipe was a amount surprise. It is SO tasty, SO slow in addition to SO fast.

Don't freak out almost the cottage cheese inwards the batter. You won't gustatory modality it, but it is totally essential produce NOT move out it out. If y'all don't desire to SEE the cottage cheese, pulse it inwards the blender a fourth dimension or two.


MAKE THE FILLING FIRST1½ tablespoons melted butter
2/3 loving cup brownish saccharide (packed)
1½ teaspoons cinnamon
½ teaspoon allspice (I left out)
¼ teaspoon position down cloves (I left out)
1 loving cup chopped pecans
Mix good in addition to laid aside
DOUGH¾ loving cup cottage cheese(4% milk fat)do non move out out1/3 loving cup buttermilk (do non move out out)
¼ loving cup white sugar
4 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all role flour
1 TABLESPOON baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda

Preheat the oven to 400 in addition to grease the sides in addition to bottom of a 9" or 10" saltation shape pan alongside cooking spray. In a nutrient processor, combine the cottage cheese, buttermilk, sugar, melted butter in addition to vanilla; procedure until shine (10 seconds). Add the flour, baking pulverization & baking soda in addition to pulse inwards brusque bursts only until the dough clumps together inwards a ball (don't over-process). The dough volition hold upwards soft in addition to moist. Dump the dough out onto a lightly floured counter in addition to knead it iv or 5 times alongside floured hands (this is a beautiful dough, real slow to move with). Roll dough out to a 12" x 15" rectangle.

Brush the rectangle alongside a real low-cal coating of melted butter (be skimpy & move out a one-half inch border unbuttered approximately the edges. Sprinkle the filling over the buttered expanse in addition to pat lightly.

Starting alongside the long side, whorl upwards the dough into a jelly whorl shape in addition to pinch the long seam to seal (leave the ends open). Cut into twelve equal pieces alongside a abrupt knife (a abrupt serrated knife industrial plant well). Set the rolls inwards the prepared pan, cutting side up. The rolls should touching on slightly, but its OK if at that spot are modest gaps. Bake at 400 for xx to 28 minutes (mine took the amount 28 minutes) or until golden brown.
Set the pan on a cooling rack for 5 minutes. Remove the saltation shape telephone in addition to drizzle the glaze over the rolls. Yum!!!

GLAZE2/3 loving cup powdered sugar
2 to iii tablespoons of mutual depression temperature milk (I used whipping cream)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon of maple extract (not necessary but YUMMY)

Whisk all ingredients together. If it seems also thick to pour, add together a niggling fight to a greater extent than milk (or cream).
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Sturdy Butter Cream Frosting

February 03, 2018
Sturdy Butter Cream Frosting
Traditionally, butter cream frosting is made amongst butter, powdered saccharide too flavorings, however, I abide by the recipes that purpose all butter, tend to move heavy tasting, difficult to move amongst (it melts too sags equally good easy) too non the low-cal fluffy frosting people expect.
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I've decorated cakes for years too I perish on coming dorsum to this easy, user friendly too fluffy frosting recipe, made amongst one-half butter too one-half white Crisco. Don't freak out almost using Crisco inward your frosting, you won't move able to say it is there (100% shortening is what most commercial bakeries purpose to brand that fluffy frosting nosotros all love) and, equally y'all tin see, it pipes nicely.
.1 loving cup white Crisco shortening
1 loving cup butter (room temperature)
6 to 6½ cups of powdered sugar
½ loving cup whipping cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract (important)

In the large bowl of a stand upward mixer, whip the shortening too butter together for almost iii minutes on high. Add vi cups of powdered sugar, the extracts too whipping cream to the butter mixture too whip ON HIGH for almost 8 to 10 minutes.

After that amount of time, cheque the frosting for consistency. Usually, the frosting is perfect, but if your climate is dissimilar from my climate, y'all may desire to add together an additional ½ loving cup of powdered sugar.

Once y'all frost your cake, position it inward the refrigerator to allow everything "set". Remove your cake from the refrigerator almost an lx minutes earlier serving.

NOTE: This frosting plant best inward a stand upward mixer, although y'all tin arrive amongst a manus held mixer (it volition only accept a piffling extra time).
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Oatmeal Cranberry Walnut Cookies

February 03, 2018
Oatmeal Cranberry Walnut Cookies
If you lot are looking for 1 to a greater extent than slowly cookie to circular out your vacation baking, drive these delicious cookies. They are light, crispy in addition to buttery tasting (not the measure heavy oatmeal cookie).

If you lot are looking for 1 to a greater extent than slowly cookie to circular out your vacation baking OATMEAL CRANBERRY WALNUT COOKIES 1 loving cup butter (room temperature)
1 loving cup packed brownish sugar
1 loving cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon butter extract
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups quick cooking oats
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups Craisens (sweetened dried cranberries)
1 loving cup chopped walnuts
Beat butter, sugars, eggs in addition to extracts for FIVE MINUTES (important to the calorie-free crispy nature of this cookie).
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In around other bowl, mix the flour, oatmeal, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon in addition to salt. Add this dry out mixture to the butter mixture (1 loving cup at a time) beating good later each addition.
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Stir inward the dried cranberries in addition to walnuts. Let this finished cookie dough sit down for virtually v minutes.
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Roll the dough into 1" balls (dough volition last a petty sticky). Place the dough balls on lightly greased cookie sheet, virtually 2" apart. Bake inward 350 preheated oven for 12-14 minutes (my oven took thirteen minutes).

If you lot are looking for 1 to a greater extent than slowly cookie to circular out your vacation baking OATMEAL CRANBERRY WALNUT COOKIES NOTE: Before you lot seat the cookie dough balls on the baking sheet, hold off for the side that shows the most cranberries in addition to seat that side upwards (the prettiest side).

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NOTE: These freeze really well. I drizzled a vanilla glaze on my cookies (for the holidays) simply that is non necessary. Makes virtually four dozen?
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Green Edible Bean Casserole Alongside Mushrooms, Cheese Together With Bacon

February 03, 2018
Green Edible Bean Casserole Alongside Mushrooms, Cheese Together With Bacon
The traditional "green edible bean casserole" has ever intrigued me. I run across it generally during the holidays too I want to relish it, although I'm non also fond of the mushroom soup sauce it commonly has. This year, I laid out to re-invent this vacation casserole too I absolutely honey the lastly results.
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I used fresh dark-green beans, sauteed sugariness onions, portabello mushrooms, crisp bacon, a niggling cheddar cheese too my ain white sauce. The resulting "green edible bean casserole" was delicious too nosotros ate a ton of it.

 I run across it generally during the holidays too I  GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE amongst MUSHROOMS, CHEESE AND BACON 1 pound of fresh dark-green beans cutting into 2" pieces
1/2 loving cup chopped sugariness onion
1/2 pound of infant portobello mushrooms sliced
5 slices of bacon fried crisp (drained good & crumbled)
1 loving cup shredded cheddar cheese (loosely packed)
1 clove garlic minced finely
3 tablespoons white flour
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
scant 1/2 teaspoon dark pepper
2 1/2 cups milk


In a large frying pan, saute the chopped onions until they odor sweet; add together the garlic too saute until it barely turns golden. 

Add the dark-green beans too mushrooms (mixing well) too saute for a few minutes until they showtime to wilt but a niggling (don't ready them all the agency through). Remove pan from estrus too laid aside.
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In a sauce pan, melt three tablespoons butter; add together the flour, tabular array salt too pepper, stirring quickly. Cook on medium for most a infinitesimal (to take whatever flour taste). 

Slowly add together the milk piece y'all are whisking similar a mad woman piece (this volition eliminate lumps inward the sauce). Once the milk too butter-flour mixture are mixed well, ready on medium estrus (stirring every 1 time inward a while) until it gets squeamish too thick.

Remove from estrus too stir inward the cheese too crisp (crumbled) bacon. Add this mixture to the vegetables too stir good (but gently). Place inward an lightly greased casserole dish too bake at 350 for most xxx minutes or until really hot.
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It was actually tasty too the leftovers made a oral fissure watering tiffin the side past times side day.
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Microwave Rice

February 03, 2018
Microwave Rice
This is a handy piddling recipe for rice cooked inwards the microwave oven. It is easy, requires no "pot watching" as well as produces perfect rice.

This is a handy piddling recipe for rice cooked inwards the microwave oven MICROWAVE RICE 2 cups boiling water
1 loving cup long grain white rice (not instant)

Mix everything inwards a rut rubber drinking glass or ceramic bowl as well as gear upwards on high (uncovered) inwards your microwave for x minutes. Remove as well as fluff amongst a fork. Return to microwave as well as gear upwards at 50% ability for but about other five minutes. Fluff over again amongst the fork. That's it!!

NOTE: All microwaves gear upwards differently. If yous convey an underpowered microwave, yous may convey to gear upwards it an extra infinitesimal on 50% power. If yous convey a super powerful microwave...maybe subtract a infinitesimal during the 50% stage.

NOTE: Add butter as well as favorite seasonings to rice AFTER it is cooked.

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Taco Bell Ruby-Red Sauce Clone Recipe

February 03, 2018
Taco Bell Ruby-Red Sauce Clone Recipe
I acknowledge it, at that spot are for certain items that I actually savor at Taco Bell. Yes, I know it's non authentic Mexican food, but when yous similar something, well, yous overlook things similar that. One matter I savor at TB is a warm condiment called cherry sauce. It is not the hot sauce that comes inwards a packet; it is the steaming hot cherry sauce that is served on their tostados together with their Mexican pizza. This recipe is close equally to a greater extent than or less the master sense of savour equally yous tin get!!!


 1 (8 ounce) tin of love apple tree sauce
1/3 loving cup water
1/4 teaspoon chili powder
1  1/2 teaspoon soil cumin
1  1/2 teaspoons dry out onion flakes
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon white sugar
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper  (we role alone 1/8 teaspoon)

Mix everything together with simmer (on rattling low) for 15-20 minutes. Serve hot. The "spice level" is rattling moderate if yous role it right away. It is spicier if yous allow it sit down inwards the refrigerator overnight.
Serve (as a hot condiment) alongside whatever Mexican food.


 at that spot are for certain items that I actually savor at Taco Bell TACO BELL RED SAUCE CLONE RECIPENOTE: I was surprised to come across that at that spot is vinegar inwards this sauce (you can't sense of savour it inwards the finally product).
NOTE: I don't unremarkably purchase garlic salt. I simply mix it upwardly alongside iii parts common salt to 1 business office garlic powder, stir well.


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Lemon - Butter Cookies

February 03, 2018
Lemon - Butter Cookies
I dearest it when you lot detect a recipe that you lot know you lot already cause got all of the ingredients, fifty-fifty if you lot are snowed in, or haven't gone shopping inward a while. That describes this super quick, super easy, super tasty lemon butter cookie.

I dearest it when you lot detect a recipe that you lot  LEMON - BUTTER COOKIES¾ loving cup butter (room temperature)
1 loving cup white sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons corn syrup
2 teaspoons lemon extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all endure flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
a piddling extra carbohydrate to gyre cookies in

In a medium bowl, cream together the butter in addition to carbohydrate until it is rattling low-cal in addition to fluffy (this takes a few minutes at high speed). Beat inward egg, corn syrup in addition to extracts. Add the flour, baking soda & baking pulverisation in addition to mix well.

Roll dough into 1" balls thus gyre the balls inward granulated sugar. Place them on a parchment lined cookie sail virtually ii or iii inches a part. Bake inward preheated 325 bird oven for 12 minutes or until they are merely golden roughly the edges.

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Homemade Fresh Noodles

February 03, 2018
Homemade Fresh Noodles
The championship of this post service is my "gentle protest" inwards the noodle vs. pasta debate. I grew upwardly calling them noodles, but all of the cooking shows telephone outcry upwardly it pasta. Is at that spot a difference? Perhaps the discussion pasta makes it audio fancier? Oh well, telephone outcry upwardly me sometime fashioned I guess.

I've been playing or therefore alongside homemade noodle recipes since I got a petty mitt crank noodle roller for Christmas. This latest recipe uses all semolina flour as well as it was SO much easier to operate than recipes that usage all usage flour. The dorsum of the semolina flour purse suggested using the total sheets of this dough (uncut) for lasagna (without boiling) which I am looking frontward to trying.


 Homemade noodles inwards cheesy
fettuccine Alfredo sauce

1½ cups semolina flour
½ teaspoon tabular array salt (optional)
2 eggs
2 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons olive fossil oil (I used canola oil)



Combine the semolina flour as well as salt; add together the beaten eggs, H2O as well as oil. Mix to brand a real rigid dough. Knead for 10 minutes or until dough is elastic (I did this alongside my stand upwardly mixer). Cover alongside plastic as well as allow the dough residuum for xxx minutes (important)..
After xxx minutes of resting, plow the dough out onto a real lightly floured counter. Don't usage also much flour on the dough earlier y'all set it through the machine, simply plenty to arrive non sticky.


Start alongside pieces of dough almost the size of a golf game ball, mayhap slightly larger. Flatten it out alongside your mitt as well as taper i destination of the dough therefore the auto volition live able to "catch" the dough easily. Roll the dough through your auto on the lowest publish 2 or 3 times (it volition larn longer each time).
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Set your dial to the adjacent lower publish as well as run the dough through again. Do this a dyad times. My in conclusion auto setting was #3 as well as it was simply right for fettuccine noodles.
. You tin air dry out these noodles at this betoken or y'all tin boil it similar whatever other noodle; it takes a lot less fourth dimension to fix if y'all don't dry out it. Drain as well as usage similar y'all would whatever other noodle.


NOTE: You sure enough exercise non HAVE to stimulate got a auto to curl out this dough. I stimulate got made many noodles past times rolling out pocket-size balls of dough on a floured counter alongside my rolling pin. Just brand sure y'all curl them out overnice as well as sparse as well as therefore cutting alongside a pizza cutter.
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Subway Sugariness Onion Chicken Teriyaki Sandwich

February 03, 2018
Subway Sugariness Onion Chicken Teriyaki Sandwich
This is a "knock off" recipe for Subway's sugariness onion chicken teriyaki sandwich. It is delicious, alone most 370 calories together with really quick to ready (as long equally you lot brand the sugariness onion sauce a twenty-four hours ahead).

 

 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken tenderloins
.¼ loving cup soy sauce
¾ loving cup pineapple juice
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon dry reason ginger
½ teaspoon dry out mustard
¼ teaspoon white pepper
¼ loving cup chocolate-brown sugar
2 tablespoons honey
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Bring everything but the chicken to a boil together with simmer for most five minutes or until it starts to reduce. Cool completely together with pour over the chicken, embrace together with refrigerate the chicken for most 30-60 minutes.
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When it's fourth dimension to eat, accept the chicken out of the marinade (throw marinade away) together with grill or broil the chicken until done (don't over cook).
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Place chicken pieces inward grilled bun and add together favorite toppings. Drizzle alongside sugariness onion sauce. Mmmmmmmmmmm!!! Makes most half dozen sandwiches.


SUBWAY SWEET ONION SAUCE
 This is SO tasty together with I honour all sorts of uses for it. It is non overly onion-y together with non overly sweet. Make it a twenty-four hours ahead of fourth dimension to permit the flavors blend together with mellow.

½ loving cup low-cal corn syrup
1 tablespoon finely minced Vidalia onion
1 tablespoon carmine vino vinegar
2 teaspoons white distilled vinegar
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon chocolate-brown sugar
1 teaspoon buttermilk powder
¼ teaspoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon poppy seeds
1/8 teaspoon salt
pinch cracked dark pepper
pinch garlic powder
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Combine all ingredients together with convey to a boil for most xxx seconds. Whisk good together with embrace together with chill overnight.

NOTE: If you lot don't guide maintain Vidalia onion, a white onion volition work, simply mince it VERY finely. I've fifty-fifty used re-hydrated onion flakes successfully, although the vidalia onion is best.
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Sweet Dinner Rolls

February 03, 2018
Sweet Dinner Rolls
This is an "oldie, but a goodie" recipe for a sweet, buttery, dinner gyre for your Easter holiday. This recipe tin live made ahead of the holidays, partially baked together with hence simply tossed inward the oven, to destination baking, simply earlier the large dinner. They are delicious, slow to brand together with freeze beautifully.


½ loving cup warm water
1/3 loving cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
½ loving cup warm milk
1/3 loving cup soft butter
1 packet of dry out yeast (see note)
1 egg (room temperature if possible)
3¾ cups all purpose flour

Heat the H2O together with milk until warm (I utilization the microwave). Put it into the large bowl of a stand upwards mixer together with stir inward the carbohydrate together with yeast. Let it sit down for almost 10 minutes (it should teach foamy). After 10 minutes, add together the salt, butter, egg together with 1 loving cup of flour, mix well.

Continue adding the balance of the flour, ½ loving cup at a time. Stop your stand upwards mixer every in 1 lawsuit inward a acre together with scrape downward the within of your bowl together with plough the entire dough mixture over (this insures that all of the flour gets mixed inward completely and evenly).

Remove the dough from the bowl together with spray the bowl amongst cooking spray. Return the dough to the bowl together with spritz the top of the dough (a little) amongst to a greater extent than cooking spray (so the plastic roll doesn't stick to the dough). Cover the bowl amongst plastic roll together with house inward the warmest utilization of your kitchen for an sixty minutes to raise. Keep inward heed that marble counters are non the warmest house to proceed your bowl of dough.

After an hour, or afterward the dough has doubled inward size (whichever comes first), force the air out of the dough amongst your hands. Roll out 12" "ropes" of dough together with necktie a knot inward the middle, similar this:
 This recipe tin live made ahead of the holidays SWEET DINNER ROLLS To consummate the "knot", tuck 1 loose halt nether the gyre together with convey the other loose halt over the top together with tuck it within of the master copy knot, house inward greased muffin tins. They volition hold back similar this:
 This recipe tin live made ahead of the holidays SWEET DINNER ROLLS Spritz the top of the rolls amongst (just a little) cooking spray together with encompass amongst plastic roll again. Let them heighten until they are double inward size (35-45 minutes).

If y'all desire to partially bake them (they volition live similar brownish & serve rolls), bake inward a preheated 325 oven for 10 minutes. Remove from pans together with cool completely (then freeze). When it is fourth dimension to utilization them, defrost them for almost xv minutes, hence bake inward a preheated 375 oven for almost 8-10 minutes.

If desire to bake them correct away (after they accept risen inward the pans), bake inward preheated 350 oven for 12-15 minutes (depending on how hot your oven runs, simply proceed an oculus on them afterward 12 minutes).


NOTE: I purchase volume yeast, so, when a recipe calls for a packet of yeast, I simply utilization a tablespoon (that is a piddling extra, but industrial plant well).
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Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting For My Birthday

February 03, 2018
Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting For My Birthday
 They look to come upwards every 6 months lately CHOCOLATE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING FOR MY BIRTHDAY
Can it endure my birthday again, already? They look to come upwards every 6 months lately. I normally process myself to a baked goody on my birthday; come upwards to intend of it, it virtually ever involves chocolate, big surprise!! This is my favorite chocolate frosting, it is quick, easy, deliciously smoothen on the natural language in addition to it pipes beautifully!!!


¼ loving cup butter (warm precisely non melted)
½ loving cup baking cocoa
8 ounces cream cheese (room temperature)
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar

Mix the cocoa in addition to vanilla into the warm (but non melted) butter, shell until smooth, laid aside. Beat the cream cheese until smoothen (scrape the sides of the bowl hence that you lot instruct it all mixed), in addition to then add together the butter-chocolate mixture in addition to shell until it is all smooth.

Beat inwards the powdered sugar, i loving cup at a time, beating good afterward each loving cup until smoothen in addition to enjoy.

NOTE: If I'm feeling adventurous, I add together a piffling orangish zest to this frosting.
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Friday, February 2, 2018

Bisquick Clone Recipe

February 02, 2018
Bisquick Clone Recipe
I constitute a recipe, recently, that I actually wanted to try, however, it called for 1 loving cup of commercial Bisquick, an special I don't commonly stock inward my pantry.  I wasn't likewise keen on buying a whole box of Bisquick (when I alone needed a loving cup of it) therefore I went Internet surfing for a Bisquick clone recipe.

I constitute several but they all called for shortening (not precisely what I was looking for). Then I constitute the next recipe, which uses Canola petroleum (on http://www.food.com/ )  I used it to brand biscuits for dinner this evening together with nosotros were VERY pleased amongst the light, flaky results. They were real similar to commercial Bisquick biscuits (picky-picky hubby said the were much ameliorate than Bisquick) together with you lot tin NOT crunch the convenience!! I holler back to guide house a canister of this mix inward my pantry from forthwith on.

This recipe tin easily move doubled or tripled together with I dearest that the ingredients are e'er on hand.

BISQUICK CLONE MIX

4½ cups all role flour
iv tablespoons baking powder
two tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
10 tablespoons Canola oil

Whisk everything together (I used my stand upwards mixer amongst the whisk attachment) but a manus whisk would operate only every bit well, it volition hold back similar this.

Store this mixture inward a container amongst a tight plumbing equipment lid (at room temperature) for upwards to half dozen weeks. Use it precisely similar you lot would for ANY recipe that calls for Bisquick (biscuits, muffins, pancakes, pot pie crusts, etc.). It non alone saves a lot of money, but it tastes neat too!!
BISCUITS (makes 6)

2¼ cups Bisquick Clone Mix
2/3 loving cup milk

Mix amongst a spoon until it comes together, together with then plough out onto your counter that has been dusted amongst a petty to a greater extent than of the dry out mix (don't utilisation flour). Knead lightly 10 times, together with then pat to 1/2" thick. Cut amongst 2½" biscuit cutter. Place on greased cookie sail (I utilisation parchment) together with brush amongst melted butter. The melted butter is optional, but nosotros similar them that way.

Bake at 450 for 10-12 minutes (my electrical oven took 12 minutes).
I constitute a neat Bisquick recipe site that has lots of interesting recipes: CLICK HERE
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Mini Chicken Pot Pies

February 02, 2018
Mini Chicken Pot Pies
Picky-picky hubby loves chicken pot pies, but they definitely  accept non been on my "quick fix" listing until now. This "recipe" is almost a cheater recipe, because y'all tin skip the filling recipe below as well as but role your favorite leftover chicken as well as gravy to build
these. 

They were thus tasty that picky-picky hubby went dorsum for seconds!! With this quick as well as slow technique, I tin encounter nosotros volition live on having mini chicken pot pies a lot to a greater extent than often.



2 potatoes  cubed fairly small
1 loving cup favorite veggies(I role a frozen pea-corn-green edible bean mix)
1/2 stalk celery chopped fine
1 tablespoon onion chopped fine
1 carrot sliced thin
1 COOKED chicken thorax pocket-sized cubed
1 underground of fridge rolls (see banking concern annotation virtually brand)
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
2 1/2 cups chicken broth (see note)
2 teaspoons chicken bullion
pepper to taste

In a large sauce pan, saute the onion as well as celery inwards a lilliputian butter until soft. Add the chicken broth, potatoes, veggies, bullion as well as pepper (DO NOT ADD THE CHICKEN MEAT AT THIS STAGE). Boil virtually 5-8 minutes or until potatoes as well as carrots are fork tender.

Drain but SAVE THE BROTH!! In a medium size sauce pan, melt iii tablespoons of butter as well as then add together iii tablespoons flour as well as stir, (cook for virtually a infinitesimal to ready out the raw flour taste).  Add the saved chicken broth (whisk similar crazy when y'all add together the broth). Cook until the mixture thickens, as well as then position the cooked veggies dorsum in. Remove from oestrus as well as laid aside. Note: If the "gravy' seems a lilliputian thick, but add together a distich tablespoons to a greater extent than chicken broth.

Spray a Texas size muffin pan lightly alongside vegetable spray (even if it is a non-stick pan). Roll out each fridge biscuit rattling sparse as well as house i inwards each muffin cup.



Then role your fingers to press the thinned out biscuit upward the sides as well as to the overstep of each cup.

NOTE: If y'all don't accept a Texas size muffin pan, encounter banking concern annotation below.

NOTE: We telephone telephone underground fridge biscuits "whomp rolls" because of the audio they build when y'all "whomp" them on the border of the counter to opened upward them. I've tried several brands as well as they volition ALL work, but the rattling best i (for these mini pot pies) is a Kroger build biscuit called JUMBO butter biscuits (our Fred Meyer sells them).



Place pieces of cooked chicken inwards the bottom of each lilliputian pot pie as well as and then spoon the veggies as well as gravy over it (almost to the top).

Place the muffin pan on a cookie tray (in example you've filled them likewise much) and bake inwards preheated 375 oven for xx minutes or until golden dark-brown as well as bubbly.


Remove from oven as well as allow sit for iii or iv minutes BEFORE taking them out of the pan; this volition actually help.

Don't worry, they remain hot forever!! Use a butter knife to assistance y'all inwards lifting these out of the pan.



NOTE:  If y'all don't role chicken bullion, you'll accept to add together a lilliputian tabular array salt to the sauce.

NOTE: On occasion, I purchase Pillsbury Grands fridge biscuits, but they don't move good for this recipe (too bready). The Kroger build of Jumbo Butter Biscuits scroll out overnice as well as sparse as well as they bake into a sparse crusty-buttery shell.

NOTE: I don't mean value this recipe will move rattling good inwards a criterion cupcake pan unless y'all chop everything VERY pocket-sized as well as role alone one-half of a fridge biscuit (but I've never tried it).


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Dairy Gratuitous Coleslaw

February 02, 2018
Dairy Gratuitous Coleslaw
There are a zillion coleslaw recipes on-line; at that topographic point are creamy ones; at that topographic point are spicy ones; at that topographic point are slaws made with broccoli; I fifty-fifty saw i alongside Gorgonzola cheese the other day!! Personally, I accept been looking for a basic, no frills, "please everyone" coleslaw recipe to brand for large solid unit of measurement gatherings.

In my search, I flora this quick together with slow "recipe gem" over at MGCC, and truly IS a keeper. Not alone is it delicious, but at that topographic point is no dairy inwards it and it lasts inwards the refrigerator for upwards to a week; every bit a affair of fact, it simply keeps getting tastier together with it goes good alongside everything!!

Thank y'all for sharing the recipe, Charlotte!!!


3 cups shredded cabbage
1/4 loving cup diced onion
1/4 loving cup diced greenish pepper
1 carrot shredded
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons vinegar
3 tablespoons oil
1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dark pepper (my variation)
1/2 teaspoon celery seed (my variation)

How pocket-sized y'all chop the veggies is a affair of personal preference. We prefer pieces about twice the size of a grain of rice together with my nutrient processor (using the steel blade) makes brusk run of this step.

In a pocket-sized saucepan, mix the sugar, vinegar, oil, salt, pepper and celery seed together with convey to a boil, stirring simply until saccharide has dissolved together with then withdraw from the heat.

Pour the hot dressing over the vegetables together with mix well.  Let this cool a niggling earlier roofing it together with putting it inwards the refrigerator to chill until fix to serve. 
NOTE: Toss salad again, simply earlier serving to distribute the dressing.

NOTE: This recipe brand iv generous side servings (adult size).  When I become far for a crowd, I quadruple the recipe.
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No Knead Pizza Dough

February 02, 2018
No Knead Pizza Dough
What is easier than a no-knead pizza crust? This recipe (like many I have) are a combination of several recipes, tweaked amongst years of experimentation on my part. This ane is a keeper!!

We dearest a pizza crust that stays crispy underneath the filling, even thus the edges are lite together with airy amongst large air pockets within the dough. The hardest role of this recipe (that's a joke) is to recollect to mix the dough the nighttime earlier (it needs to sit down at room temperature for 24 hours). No involve to utilization a mixer together with dough hook, but a bowl together with spoon; it is super-easy.


three cups all operate flour
1 tablespoon yeast
1½ teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon olive oil
¼ teaspoon dark pepper (optional)
1 tablespoon saccharide
1½ cups warm water

In a large bowl, mix everything, using a wooden spoon.  The dough volition live really moisture together with expect to a greater extent than similar a batter than a dough. Don't live tempted to add together to a greater extent than flour at this stage!!


Cover the bowl amongst plastic twine together with permit it sit down at room temperature for 24 hours. After 24 hours, the dough/batter volition live nearly triple inwards size, thus utilization a large bowl, run across all those bubbles?


After 24 hours, stir the dough. It's going to live pretty sticky, but don't freak out close it.

Heavily flour your counter overstep together with pour/scoop the dough out onto the flour.  Generously sprinkle flour over the overstep of the dough too.  Fold the dough dorsum onto itself a few times. This is a fiddling messy/sticky, thus maintain flouring your hands. After you've coated the dough amongst flour together with folded it over a few times, cutting it inwards one-half (makes two medium pizza's).

Preheat your oven (with pizza rock on oculus rack) to 450 degrees.
Put each slice of dough on its own piece of parchment newspaper together with using floured hands, gently pat it into a circle, leaving the edges thicker together with the oculus equally sparse equally yous can. Add toppings together with brush the edges of the crust amongst a fiddling H2O (not much).
The dough is going to rest on the parchment newspaper when yous set it onto the hot pizza stone. To exercise this, I transfer the newspaper together with dough past times lifting it amongst a rim-less cookie sheet, together with and thus I slide the whole thing off of the cookie canvass together with correct onto the stone. Bake it for 8 minutes.

After 8 minutes, clit the parchment newspaper out of the oven. Turn the bake cycle off together with plough on the broiler cycle for close 1 to 2 minutes (watch closely). The hot pizza rock volition proceed to bake the underside of the crust, but the broiler volition chocolate-brown the toppings nicely.

We dearest those lite airy pockets within the crust!!
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Thursday, February 1, 2018

Sweet Together With Savory Rice

February 01, 2018
Sweet Together With Savory Rice

I dearest savory rice too picky-picky hubby loves sweetness rice. As a affair of fact, his all fourth dimension favorite rice is plainly white rice amongst butter too saccharide on it, become figure!!

Today's rice is i that nosotros BOTH enjoy. It goes really good amongst well-nigh anything, simply nosotros peculiarly similar it amongst pork chops or baked ham.

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2 ¼ cups chicken broth
1 tablespoon butter
1 loving cup raw white rice
½ teaspoon onion powder
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon dark pepper
1 teaspoon set down cumin
1 large cooking apple tree (cored, peeled too diced)
1/3 loving cup nighttime chocolate-brown sugar
1/3 loving cup golden raisins
½ loving cup chopped toasted pecans
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Melt the butter inward a medium saucepan too add together the RAW rice.  Cook/stir the rice until it turns form of opaque white. This volition assistance continue the rice grains split upwards spell it cooks.

Add the chicken broth too everything else inward the recipe, except the pecans.  Bring to a boil too and thus plough the oestrus means downward thus that it is at a low simmer. Put a tight plumbing fixtures lid on the pot too permit it simmer for twenty minutes (don't peek).

Remove the pan from the heat, gently stir inward the toasted pecans too pose the lid dorsum on for five minutes (but amongst no heat).

That's it!! The nighttime chocolate-brown saccharide too fruit lend a mildly sweetness flavour to the rice too the set down cumin gives it a total flavor. This rice makes an fantabulous buffet dish since it too tastes corking at room temperature. I promise you lot volition get it.

NOTE: I've too used canned peaches (when I was out of apples) too it tasted great.

NOTE: Use vegetable broth instead of chicken broth if you lot are vegetarian

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