Posts Tagged ‘shoyu soy sauce’

Really Juicy Turkey Loaf You’ll Gobble up

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Organic/natural ingredients taste best.

Serves 6-8

turkeyAmaze your friends

& enemies with ground turkey sooo succulent and satisfying!

No beef equivalent comes near it.



You’ll need:

3 pounds Ground Turkey (preferably all dark meat or 1/2 ‘n 1/2)
30-35 crumbled Ritz Crackers™ in 1/2 glass water (Can use natural alternative cracker)
9+ medium cloves Garlic minced (I love garlic so I tend to use more so use to your taste)
3-4 good splashes of Worcestershire Sauce
More splashes for you Catsup (your choice), maybe 4-5 good ones
More to splash, Organic Shoyu Soy sauce — maybe 2-3
1/2 – 3/4 teaspoon Sea Salt
1/2 teaspoon Fresh Ground Black Pepper or to your taste
3 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Two small cans organic Tomato Sauce
1 Cup Organic Chicken Broth
6-8 Peeled Yellow Gold Potatoes cut into 2” chunks
Salt
Pepper
Paprika

Large baking dish, larger than 9”x13” if you have but no smaller than
Aluminum foil
350 degree oven
Baking time about 1-1/2 hours covered with rack in middle of oven

*NOTE: You can add golden raisins or dried cranberries for a more complex taste layer. Make it and then make it yours.

To prepare:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Oil baking dish and add a thin layer of some of the tomato sauce on the bottom. In one large mixing bowl combine thoroughly with your hands, ground turkey with next 8 ingredients. Be bold and add some more of any ingredient that you like. Make this your own.

Form into three loaves and place each into baking dish. Pour remainder of the tomato sauce over and around loaves. Place the cut potatoes all around and sprinkle them with salt, pepper, & paprika. Add chicken broth to the dish, cover with aluminum foil, and bake. Check softness of potatoes after one hour. Return to oven for another 20 – 30 minutes until potatoes are very soft but not falling apart and loaves are deliciously steaming. Remove from oven and allow to rest 5-10 minutes. It is ready to be devoured. Don’t expect leftovers, but IF there are, it’s just as delicious reheated, frozen with gravy & potatoes or on a sandwich hot or cold. YUM!

Wildly Broiled Salmon

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Organic/natural ingredients are best.

salmonMarinate and broil.

That’s all.

The sake and ginger are unbelievable together.

It’s wild!

You’ll need:

1 Pound Wild Salmon Fillet
1 Tablespoon minced Fresh ginger
1 Medium Clove Garlic finely minced
1 Tablespoon finely chopped Scallions
3 Tablespoons Organic Shoyu Soy Sauce or to your taste
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 Tablespoons Medium to dry Japanese Sake OR Mirin
(Japanese cooking Sake found in Oriental Section of markets)
Unflavored bread crumbs or panko with a little salt
Rinsed off Capers add a delightful dimension of taste sprinkled on top of finished fish.(optional)

Oven on broil with oven rack on 2nd level
Medium glass or ceramic baking dish oiled

To prepare:

To marinate the salmon, place ginger, garlic, scallions, shoyu, salt, pepper, and sake in baking dish, mixing all together. Add fish skin side down to coat. Puncture top of fish with fork prongs and turn over flesh side down. Fork holes allow marinade to become infused in the flesh. Let stand for about 15 minutes at room temperature. Can marinate longer if desired.

Turn on broiler and allow oven to heat. Turn over fish so flesh side is up. Lightly sprinkle bread crumbs or panko over fish and broil till just done, for about 5-6 minutes or until flesh is flaky and opaque. You can even take it out a minute before as it continues to cook from residual heat. You want the salmon to be succulent and moist.

Enjoy it with a bright green salad with fruity vinaigrette dressing and/or a light fresh tomato/garlic pasta dish or light grain. If sprinkling top of salmon with capers, sprinkle lightly just before serving. This preparation is so fast that if an unexpected guest arrives (and you have enuf salmon or even another meaty fish – I always buy a little more. You never know… and the leftover is terrific flaked into a lunch salad the next day) you’ll have it ready with maybe a shorter marinade time, just a few minutes later to even more accolades!

ABOUT: Wellness Chef Helen Sandler
Lecturer, personal chef, teacher, wellness coach, & speaker, Helen promotes a healthier lifestyle through common sense, organic / natural approach to a happier, positive life.

Helen Sandler is used to being an innovator and at the cutting edge of whole foods whole grains awareness. After graduating from SUNY, New York with a teaching degree, she began to follow her real passion for healthy cooking which took her from Los Angeles to Boston to attend the cooking school of the late and great master Japanese natural chef, Aveline Kushi. Later that passion took her to Kyoto, Japan to continue her studies, where she spent four more years learning the art of healthy Japanese cooking (Seishoku).

As Wellnes Chef Helen she is the featured authority at CTNgreen /wellness with articles in the library there and the virtual paperless magazine at CTNGreen Magazine



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