new to the group with a 'bulgur' recipe

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Hi everyone,

 

I just joined recently. I live in a town of 90k primarily made up of

`meatatarian's, as my 3 year old son would say. There are NO veggie

choice restaurant for us to go to and I find it difficult to shop in

a town with four small shelves in the grocery store dedicated to soy

products. Our choices are very limiting. So, what we have learned

to do is ask cooks, to make something special for us using the

ingredients we pull out of a meal from the menu, when dining out.

Needless to say, we do not get to eat out a lot unless we go for

Pizza, it seems to be the safest thing to eat without the concerns of

`meat poisoning'. At home we have learned to be quite creative, as I

think all veggie lifestyles learn to be.

 

My favorite Bulgur wheat salad recipe is as follows, it was adapted

from something I tasted, made by one of my veggie friends who did not

pass on the recipe at the time.

 

Bulgur wheat

Dried cranberries

Lemon juice

Cumin

Cilantro

Sunflower seeds

 

Soak bulgur wheat in vegetable broth until light and fluffy.

Add lemon juice to taste, I usually put in up to a tablespoon of

fresh squeezed.

Keep some fresh cilantro on hand, it is better to add fresh with each

serving than to put it directly in the salad, it goes bad fast.

I put up to one teaspoon of cumin in. The trick is to lightly toast

it in a dry pan first to bring out the flavor. Ad small amounts and

keep tasting because it can over paower real quick.

Add dried cranberries, or any other dried fruit to taste, papaya &

raisins are a nice combo too. Orange zest and lemon zest are a good

addition too.

Add sunflower seeds, I prefer the salted, but my husband does not.

Mix and eat as is.

One thing I really like on the is OKA's miso salad dressing. I can

only by it in Austin, so I do not have it year round and it is

preservative free. The flavor combo with the dressing is quite

divine. Another really good dressing is Goddess miso salad dressing

I think it is made by Brianna's.

 

Hope you all enjoy!