Category: Party Ideas

Baked Chicken Meatballs

You’ll need:

1 Tbsp Vegetable or Olive Oil
1 Tbsp Unsalted Butter
½ Red Onion, finely chopped
2 Cloves Garlic, finely chopped
½ lb Cremini Mushrooms, finely diced
½ tsp Red Chili Flakes
1 ½ lbs Ground Chicken
2 Tbsp Chopped Fresh Parsley
2 Tbsp Chopped Fresh Basil
¼ tsp Italian Seasoning
1 tsp Sea Salt
1 Large Egg
Freshly Ground Black Pepper

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Watermelon Rind Candies

Ingredients

Rind of 1 large watermelon (about 4 cups diced)
2 cups water
1 cup sugar
juice from 1 lime
1/2 tsp. salt
2 star anise

Instructions

  1. Peel the green outer skin off the watermelon rind and remove any of the pink meat still on the rind.
  2. Cut the rind into strips (about 1 inch long by ¼” wide or 2.5 cm x 0.6 cm)
  3. Bring the water, sugar, salt, and lime juice to a boil. Add the diced watermelon rind and star anise. Lower the heat to medium low, and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally or until the fruit is translucent and the syrup has reduced by at least half and thickened. (See Kitchen Notes)
  4. Remove the star anise.
  5. Transfer the rind to a clean pint jar with a lid and let cool.
  6. Best if refrigerated overnight before eating.

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Beer Battered Onion Rings

Reblogged from mogwaisoup: Cut up your onions to desired thickness, I like them about half an inch thick. Not to thin and definitely not too thick. Soak them in buttermilk for half an hour to an hour.
In the mean time, prepare two separate bowls. One will be for the flour that you will season with salt and pepper. The other one will be for the beer batter. I make it by mixing beer with flour, egg, salt pepper and little bit of Tabasco sauce,
Start with about a cup of flour and mix in a beer and your egg. You are looking for thickness similar to pancake batter. If needed add more flour. Add salt and pepper and some Tabasco, depending on how you like it, or if you don’t like that little kick it gives, skip it, it is delicious without it too!

Heat up canola oil in your frying pan or wok and you can start frying.
Drain your onion rings well and first dip them in flour and then into beer batter. Fry only a few at a time.

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