Cooking club

[Momogari]

That sounds good. It's been hot here...but my mother still bakes, so I guess she must have decent ventilation. Let's go with that then

[unoduetre]

The baked rice recipe is somehow sweet. Are you happy with that? I know some people prefer not to mix sweet stuff with non-sweet stuff, but I don't mind.

[Momogari]

The baked rice recipe is somehow sweet. Are you happy with that? I know some people prefer not to mix sweet stuff with non-sweet stuff, but I don't mind.

I'm pretty sure those people don't know good food.


yeah, a little sweet is fine.

[unoduetre]

OK, so I think we've decided. I'll post the recipes for the burgers and for the rice here and you can post the one for the salad when you work out the proportions.

Of course we need [mention=109177]Teeny[/mention]'s approval before we start.

[Momogari]

does "a small handful" count as a measurement? I don't know how you measure chunky solids there. I've seen it by weight but I don't have a scale

[unoduetre]

Burgers made of black lentils with dried plums (prunes).

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Ingredients

• 1 glass of dried black/beluga lentils (with hulls) (NOT BLACK GRAM, NOT URAD, you can substitute dried green lentils (with hulls) if they're difficult to buy)
  
• 1 onion
  
• 5 big white mushrooms (also called portobello)
  
• 5–6 dried plums (also called prunes, buy some without preservatives (e.g. sulphur dioxide) for much better taste, wet, organic ones usually don't have sulphur dioxide added)
  
• 2 cloves of garlic
  
• ½ tea spoon of dried thyme
  
• 2 table spoons of bread crumbs (I often substitute it with something else, but the bread crumbs are probably the best option)
  
• vegetable oil
  
• salt
  
• pepper

Steps

1. Soak lentils in water for at least 2 hours. Drain on a collander.
   
2. Put lentils into a pot. Add enough water to cover the lentils and to have at least 2–3 finger-widths of water level above the lentils. (The lentils might double their size.) Cook lentils in water until soft.
   
3. Drain the lentils on a collander well, there should be no water left.
   
4. Cut the onion and mushrooms in very small pieces.
   
5. Heat a pan with oil. Fry the onion and the mushrooms until the onion gets golden brown and the mushrooms lose all water. Add chopped garlic and thyme a couple of minutes before the end of frying.
   
6. Prepare a big bowl. Put the cooked lentils, and the contents of the frying pan into it.
   
7. Use a potato masher (or your hands if unavailable) to mash the mass.
   
8. Cut dried plums in small pieces. Add to the bowl.
   
9. Use your hands (NOT the potato masher) to mash the contents of the bowl. If the mass is too watery, add some bread crumbs.
   
10. Add salt and pepper to taste.
    
11. Leave for 10 min. Then mash with your hands again.
    
12. Make burgers and fry on a heated non-stick frying pan with some oil until golden brown on both sides. Be careful when flipping over.

Source
cookbook:
wegan nerd: moja kuchnia roślinna
Alicja Rokicka

[unoduetre]

does "a small handful" count as a measurement? I don't know how you measure chunky solids there. I've seen it by weight but I don't have a scale

You can measure in glasses/cups or handfuls, that's fine.

[unoduetre]

Baked rice with apples



Ingredients

• 1 glass of white long grain rice (the usual kind)
  
• 500ml (or 2 cups) full-fat/whole milk
  
• 6 table spoons of sugar (I use demerara for additional taste, but white is fine as well)
  
• 4 table spoons of butter (I will use 6) + some butter to grease the baking tray
  
• 1 vanilla pod
  
• 1 kg of apples (the sour kind)
  
• 3 tea spoons of cinnamon
  
• 1 table spoon of lemon juice (I gonna prepare fresh lemon juice from lemons.)
  
• a pinch of salt
  
• optional: sweat or sour cream

Steps

1. Wash rice 3 times. Drain on a colander.
   
2. Put rice into a pot. Add milk. Start cooking on low heat.
   
3. Add 3 table spoons of sugar, 2 table spoons of butter and a very small pinch of salt. Cut-open the vanilla pod. Add seeds to the pot. Put the whole pod into the pot as well.
   
4. Cook under cover for about 15–20 min. until the rice is soft. Stir 1 or 2 times. Add more milk, if it evaporates.
   
5. Remove the vanilla pod when the rice is cooked.
   
6. Peel and cut the apples into quarter pieces. Remove the cores. Grate the apples.
   
7. To a heated pan, add 1 table spoon of butter, wait until melted, add 3 table spoons of sugar. Fry for a minute or two, then add apples.
   
8. Add lemon juice to the pan. Fry about 10 min. until the apples are soft. Stir from time to time.
   
9. Add 1 tea spoon of cinnamom to apples. Add more sugar, if the apples are too sour.
   
10. Heat the oven to 180°C. Grease the baking tray with butter. The baking tray should be around 25 cm in diameter if round, or e.g. 17 cm × 22 cm if rectangular.
    
11. Put half of the rice into the tray. On top of that, put the apples. Cover with another half of the rice. Put the rest of butter on top.
    
12. Cover with aluminium foil. Bake for around 25 min.
    
13. Sprinkle with the rest of cinammon before serving. This can be served with sweet cream or sour cream.

Source
https://www.kwestiasmaku.com/przepis/ry ... z-jablkami

[unoduetre]

[mention=6444]Momogari[/mention]

Do all the ingredients above look available?

[unoduetre]

Oh, wait. Amazon has Jicama SEEDS, my mistake. So I'll probably use sour apples instead, as suggested by you. We need to buy them for the rice anyway.

[Momogari]

I can probably get everything

[Momogari]

this is a very apply meal

especially if you use apple vinegar too

[unoduetre]

Yup, But is it something bad? I like apples.

[unoduetre]

I will add the steps later after we all agree.

[mention=109177]Teeny[/mention]

What do you think?

[Teeny]

Hey, I'm really sorry, I might have to put joining in with cooking club to one side right now, please don't wait for me here this time.
I've got some things going on which I'm busy with at the moment and need to get sorted.
Hope I can take part in the future, I'll let you know when I can.
Sorry again