Monday, March 26, 2012

Recipes from the Relief Society Birthday Dinner

Here are some of the recipes from Wednesday's dinner. I think Jane Ann has the other recipes and she will post them. Enjoy!
-Kate Garner


Almond Joy Candy
For a vanilla almond joy
3 C shredded coconut
1 1/2 C almond meal
1 C maple syrup
1/3 C coconut oil
1 T vanilla
1/2 tsp sea salt
Combine all of the ingredients and stir until combined. Scoop out the dough with a cookie scoop.
I like to drizzle a chocolate sauce over these.
Chocolate Sauce
3/4 C coconut oil
1/2 C cocoa powder
1 T vanilla
1/4 C agave
Soften the coconut oil, add the cocoa powder, vanilla, and agave mix together.
NOTE: this recipe is rough estimates, play around with the coconut oil and cocoa powder to get the right consistency.
This is an antique recipe, written in a Puerto Rican village from the 1940′s.


Multi Grain Crackers
1/3 cup of each of the following grains:
Kamut
Quinoa
Spelt
Sweet Brown Rice
Oat Groats
Grind in electric grinder on course setting.
1/3 cup popped Amaranth
Flour from above
¾ cups wonder flour
2 Tbsp. rolled oats
¼ cup butter or Natural Balance
1 cup water plus 3 Tbsp. buttermilk powder
1 ½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. baking soda
Mix for 6 mins.  Divide dough into 4 sections.  Spray Pam on counter top, roll out dough, sprinkle with seasoning on top and roll in seasoning.
Bake at 350* for 15 mins.  Watch closely they burn easily.

Pita Bread
1 1/3 cup warm water
1 Tbsp. yeast
¼ tsp. sugar
2 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. olive oil
3 ½ cups flour
Variation:
1 tsp. minced garlic
¼ cup fresh minced parsley
Put in separate bowl and rise 1 hour knead on flour.  Divide into 8 portions use small rolling pin to roll out cover with cloth on counter for 15 mins.
Bake 500* on preheated baking stone.  Bake for 4 mins. turn over bake for 2 mins.

Hummus
Soak 2 cups of dried garbanzo beans for 24
Hours.  Rinse, then cook.
Blend in food processor with the juice of
One lemon, start with 1 tsp. of salt and
Add to taste.  I add about 2-3 Tbls of home-
Made catsup and 1-2 tsp of Aleppo pepper
For just a nip.