Save your seeds! For a nutritious and delicious snack, these seeds are everything you could want; salty, sweet and a little spicy
Ingredients:
2 cups of fresh pumpkin seeds
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon dry rub recipe here
pinch salt n pepper
Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and line a baking sheet with aluminum foil, spray with nonstick spray, and set aside.
1. Toss pumpkin seeds in soy sauce, dry rub, and salt n pepper
2. Spread out the seeds on the lined baking sheet bake in the oven for 10 minutes, stir the seeds and return to the oven for 5-10 more minutes, until desired doneness.
Cool and enjoy.
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Showing posts with label Seasoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seasoning. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Enchilada Meatballs
These meatballs are seriously addicting! Full of enchilada flavor all in a meatball, both kids and adults love these and you can also make extra for freezing.**
Makes 44 1 inch meatballs
Ingredients
2 lbs ground beef or turkey
1/2 of one medium sized onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup of cheddar cheese, divided
3 cups enchilada sauce, set 2 cups to the side
1/2 teaspoon 8 spice blend
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Corn bread ingredients:
1 package of Jiffy corn muffin mix
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1 jalapeno, seeded and finely chopped
2 teaspoons taco seasoning
Corn bread directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
1. Mix together all corn bread ingredients until well combined (there will be some little lumps.)
2. Pour into a greased baking dish and bake for 15-20 minutes, until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Crumble and set aside.
Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees
1. Line a sheet pan with aluminum foil.
2.Mix all meatball ingredients including crumbled corn bread, half of the cheese, and 1 cup of enchilada sauce, mash together using you're hands works best.
2. Shape meat into 44 1-inch sized meatballs and place 1/2 an inch apart on the foil lined sheet. Bake for 17-20 minutes, until the center of the meatballs is no longer pink.
3. Reheat the remaining 2 cups of enchilada sauce and top the meatballs with remaining cheese.
Serve with toothpicks along side enchilada sauce.
** Freezing and reheating instructions**
Freeze meatballs on a baking sheet and after 1 hour place them into a freezer ziplock bag and they will keep in the freezer for up to 3 months. To reheat them just put them in your crockpot with more enchilada sauce and put on low for 2-3 hours or on high for about 1 hour.
Before baking.
Labels:
Beef,
Dinner,
Freezing,
Kid Approved,
Mexican,
Party food,
Seasoning
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Rebecca's Dry Rub
I use this rub for all different things sprinkle it on anything that needs extra flavor. I especially love to use it on grilled meats and chicken, pork, beef, ribs, pork, fish, vegetables, Better Than Restaurant Tortilla Chips, home-made potato chips etc.
Ingredients:
3 teaspoons garlic powder
2 teaspoons onion powder
2 teaspoons paprika
2 teaspoon cumin
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 cup sugar
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together and store in a airtight container.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Sweet n' Spicy Shrimp
This shrimp is great for shrimp tacos or just plain with a few side dishes it can be a full meal.
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons Rebecca's 8 Spice Blend
1 teaspoon sugar
pinch of salt
8 large shrimps deviened, shelled with tails left on
1 tablespoon oil
Directions:
1. Mix spice blend with sugar and salt, toss shrimp in seasoning.
2.Heat oil to medium heat in a medium-sized skillet add shrimps to pan. The shrimps cook very quickly so keep checking the other side, they are done when they curl and are pink in color.
*The shrimp can be skewered and grilled, but make sure you soak the bamboo skewers for at least 30 minutes before putting on the grill.*
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Rebecca's 8 Spice Blend
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
1 1/2 teaspoons cumin
1 1/2 teaspoons onion powder
1/2 teaspoons black pepper
Directions:
Mix together and store in a airtight container
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