Kidney bean Risotto

I love fast recipes that are kind of healthy. The other day I was wanting to try something with rice. But I was kind of low on ingredients. I had a ton of kidney beans so I thought I would search for a rice recipe with beans. This one came up and I tried it and it was wonderful...meaning it was something the girls would ALL eat. It is kind of boring but the next day we had it along with some homemade tortillas and all the trimmings with that so it was good. I find a lot of my German recipes from chefkoch.de

The recipe says otherwise, but sometimes I am really lazy when it comes to cooking so I just threw it all in my rice cooker and stirred it a few times while it was cooking and it turned out great.

-Measure out the amount of rice you want and add water to cook, just like you would for cooking regular rice. (Rice 1 cup, water 2 cups)

-Add green onion to your liking- I am loving green onion right now so I added I think 2 green onions

-Add veggie or chicken broth (depends on what kind of broth you have- I only have the dry mix stuff so I just add one TBS of the dry mix to the stuff and that is more than enough.

-Add 2 TBS of tomato paste

-Add some kidney beans. I think I only added half a can.

-Mix all well and turn on the rice cooker! Would be good with some corn too.

-Make sure to mix a few times while it is cooking.

-Serve with cheese and the kids will love it!

Hünchen in Erdnuss-Frischkäsesoße

(Chicken in Peanut Butter-cream cheese sauce)

This is another recipe from my amazingly great cook friend here in our German ward. I have only made it once, but it was awesome so I want to document it so I don't loose this recipe.

Here is Helen's blog if you want to take a look:
http://helensroadtowellville.blogspot.de/

Ingredients:

500g chicken breast cut small
mixed with 2 EL soysauce and  some "China-Würzen" to soak
cut up one small white onion and some green onion
put 1 TL sesame oil in a frying pan
add the meat mixture and the white onion and cook
add 500ml chicken or veggie broth and cook for 5 minutes
add 4 EL peanut butter and 6 EL cream cheese
mix well and continue to simmer
add the green onion
add spices to taste: Ginger, paprika, chili, pepper and salt
cook for another 10 minutes

serve over rice with steamed veggies

Awesome no knead, no rise time bread recipe

Ingredients:

500g flour (can be a mix of whatever flours you want)
1 cube fresh yeast (Frische Hefe)
1 EL Honey
2 EL Apple vinegar
450 ml warm water
2 TL salt
150g seeds of your choice (oatmeal, pumpkin, flax)

-Spray a loaf pan
-In a large bowl measure out and mix the flour and salt
-In a small bowl put the fresh yeast, warm water, honey and apple vinegar
-Mix the yeast mixture with the flour mixture
-Add the seeds and mix well
-DO NOT preheat the oven! Put the teig into the loaf pan and top with a few more seeds to make it look cute. Put in the oven and then turn it on to whatever the American equivalent of 180-120 degrees C umluft.
-Cook for 70 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean...I have always taken mine out way before 70 minutes, maybe my oven runs hotter. When done, turn oven off and leave in the oven for 10 minutes and then take out and let cool.
-Eat right away with butter and cheese!!
-Enjoy your Abendbrot!!

**do NOT let this mix sit at all before you cook it....it will rise and make a mess. The first time I made this bread I was running late to go pick up the girls from Kiindergarten so I just left it on the counter in the loaf pan and then came back to find that it had risen a bunch. So then I put it in the oven to cook it and then forgot about it and then went to check on it and discovered I had not even turned the oven on so it had totally expanded all over the oven. So I scooped it all into two loaf pans. It was ok but not as good.

I hope there is such a thing as fresh yeast in America. I am getting hooked on this bread.