Wednesday, February 16, 2011

#33 Not a Bento


This obviously isn't a bento lunch, but it does have 2 recipes in it that I want to write down, so here it is anyway:
In the cream cheese tub: 3 stuffed grape leaves.
Sandwich: Queso blanco, turkey bacon, and guacamole on multigrain bread.
and a peach yogurt.

Stuffed grape leaves:
Cook about 1.5 cups of any white rice you like (I used Jasmine). Cool, and mix in about 1 can of crushed tomatoes, about a teaspoon of red pepper flakes, a couple tablespoons of crushed garlic, and some black pepper.
Open 1 bottle of pickled grape leaves, and rinse them under running water (if you don't do this, they will be way too salty to eat. Put about 1 tablespoon of rice mixture into the middle of each leaf and roll it like a burrito. Pack the stuffed leaves into a deep soup pan. When the pan is full, sprinkle it all over with about 1/4 cup olive oil, and add enough veggie broth where you can see it under the first couple of layers. Cover and cook on medium-low for a couple of hours. When finished, squeeze the juice of half a lemon over all the leaves.

Guacamole:
1 avocado
3 cherry tomatoes, or half a normal tomato
a few sprigs of cilantro
1 garlic clove
juice of quarter-half lime or

Put everything in a blender (I used my Magic Bullet), and blend until you get the consistency you want.
Here's what it looked like on my sandwich:

No comments:

Post a Comment