Cajun-Style Meety Rice (this is a great recipe)

[Guest guest]

I make a meal out of it.  Just add some good bread or a salad or both.

Tierso

 

Cajun-Style Meety Rice

 

2 cups vegetable stock

1 cup rice

2 tbsps. olive oil, or more as needed

1 large onion, chopped

2 red bell peppers, seeded and cubed

1 cup cubed celery

5 ozs. veg. bacon, diced

9 ozs. veg. meatballs

cajun or creole seasoning mixture to taste

hot pepper sauce to taste

salt and ground black pepper to taste

 

Place stock in large saucepan, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Add rice,

reduce heat to very low, cover pan and cook 15 mins.

Meanwhile, heat oil in large skillet over medium heat, and saute onion, peppers

and celery for 7 to 10 minutes, or until wilted, fragrant and slightly golden.

Remove from skillet, and set aside. With oil remaining in skillet, cook bacon

and meatballs, adding more oil as needed. Saute 5 or 6 minutes, and remove from

heat.

When rice is cooked and all liquid absorbed, add vegetables, bacon, meatballs,

Cajun seasoning, hot pepper sauce, salt and pepper to rice, stirring until well

combined. Continue to cook 5 minutes more, and serve. Serves 6.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Here is a recipe that I have made...they are really yummy. I added some

Italian seasonings because I was making them for spaghetti and we like our

things garlicky so I added that too. Everyone likes these including my

carnivore husband. My only advice is don't be stingy with the oil and don't

try turning them before they're ready. I haven't tried baking them but I

might try next time.

 

Lynna

 

 

 

 

*Versatile Tofu Balls*

Submitted by CM<http://www.theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/?list=Author & Author=CM>

 

prep time: 20 minutes | cooking time: 5-10 depending on doneness. | makes

About 20-24 balls

 

This recipe was culled from a really awful Vegan cookbook. It's the only

recipe in the entire book that was worth a damn but wow, what a recipe! This

is excellent for people on very exclusive diets or who just want to add tofu

to their diets in a tasty and palatable way. Even the boyfriend who is a

bonafide meat eater chows down on these when they're offered up. You can

alter this recipe anyway you like using the same basic ingredients. Change

your spices a little, or add more garlic or tamari if you want a more salty

flavour, it's entirely up to you. These function as a sandwich filler,

meatball with pasta, snack, fancy ordeurves (with a toothpick) and just

about anywhere you can think to eat them. They also keep beautifully raw in

the fridge (roll yourself up a bunch to fry up during the week!) and

wonderfully cooked. (serve cold or heat up)The coating is absolutely

essential to get their nice crispy outsides.

 

Equipment:

A large bowl

Cleaver

Cutting Board

A small Frying pan

Your hands

 

Ingredients

For the balls:

 

1 pound firm tofu

1/2 cup UNCOOKED rolled oats

2 tablespoons of tamari (or normal soysauce if you prefer)

1/4 cup of parsley

2 teaspoons of onion powder

1 teaspoon of garlic powder

 

Coating:

1 cup Whole Wheat flour

1/2 cup nutritional yeast

 

A couple of tablespoons of olive oil for frying

 

Directions

Prepare your tofu. Wash it, wrap it and weight it. It works best when

slightly damp, so ten minutes of weight is good enough. Chop up your parsley

very fine; tops work best, you don't want too many stems in there. Add the

oats, spices and tamari. Now, take your tofu and crumble it very fine in

your hands. As mashed as you can get it without a blender. Mix everything

together with your hands very well in the bowl. Throw your coating together,

preferably on a plate(makes it easier to roll your balls around). Now it's

time to roll the tofu mixture into little balls. 1 inch or so is plenty

large, you don't want them too big otherwise they won't cook all the way

through and will have trouble staying together. Squeeze them hard, and get

them into a rounded shape. note:If you find this really difficult, popping

the tofu in the refrigerator for a while will really help. Then roll your

little balls in the coating and then squeeze again. Do this for the rest of

the mixture. Now get your small frying pan out, and put a good amount of oil

on the bottom. You want a nice pool on the bottom to sautee them nice and

crisp in. Let the oil get really hot, on medium heat, then toss your little

balls in the oil. Roll them around in the oil a bit until they are browned

to your preference. When they're nice and golden they're done! Mmm nice and

crispy with a garlicky zip.

 

 

 

Reviews

 

Owen wrote on Monday January 16th, 2006 04:20 AM

 

three soybeans

 

Pretty good, but the proportions seem off. I had tons more coating than I

needed -- I ended up using maybe 1/3, tops, of what the recipe had me

prepare -- and added more garlic and onion powder along the way.

 

www.theppk.com

 

 

 

 

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Tierso Mar <tierso_mar wrote:

 

> I make a meal out of it. Just add some good bread or a salad or both.

> Tierso

>

> Cajun-Style Meety Rice

>

> 2 cups vegetable stock

> 1 cup rice

> 2 tbsps. olive oil, or more as needed

> 1 large onion, chopped

> 2 red bell peppers, seeded and cubed

> 1 cup cubed celery

> 5 ozs. veg. bacon, diced

> 9 ozs. veg. meatballs

> cajun or creole seasoning mixture to taste

> hot pepper sauce to taste

> salt and ground black pepper to taste

>

> Place stock in large saucepan, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Add

> rice, reduce heat to very low, cover pan and cook 15 mins.

> Meanwhile, heat oil in large skillet over medium heat, and saute onion,

> peppers and celery for 7 to 10 minutes, or until wilted, fragrant and

> slightly golden. Remove from skillet, and set aside. With oil remaining in

> skillet, cook bacon and meatballs, adding more oil as needed. Saute 5 or 6

> minutes, and remove from heat.

> When rice is cooked and all liquid absorbed, add vegetables, bacon,

> meatballs, Cajun seasoning, hot pepper sauce, salt and pepper to rice,

> stirring until well combined. Continue to cook 5 minutes more, and serve.

> Serves 6.

>

>