[recipe] Easy Skillet Dinner

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Easy Skillet Dinner

 

2 cups Tofurkey or Quorn brand meat-free roast, cut up into strips or

diced

1 package (5.3 oz) fried rice mix**

1 Tbs butter or margarine

2 cups water

1/8 tsp cayenne pepper

1 & 1/2 cups frozen corn, thawed

1 cup frozen broccoli cuts, thawed

2 Tbs chopped sweet red pepper, optional

 

In a nonstick skillet coated with nonstick cooking spray, saute

vegetarian

turkey until warmed through. Remove it from pan and keep warm. Set

aside

seasoning packet from rice mix. In the skillet saute rice in butter

until lightly

browned. Stir in water, cayenne and contents of seasoning packet.

 

Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Stir in corn,

broccoli,

red pepper and tofurkey. Return to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and

simmer for

6 to 8 minutes or until the rice and vegetables are tender.

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

**(check labels on fried rice packages carefully to make sure the

brand you are

using is vegetarian)

 

~ PT ~

 

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can

truly love my

brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them.

Solitude

and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for

what they

say.

~ Thomas Merton, writer (1915-1968)