Help with side dish for Bike Club potluck

[snapdragen]

Dang - I've got an awesome tabouli recipe, AND I CAN'T FIND IT!!!!!! This is going to drive me crazy....


/helpful, eh?

[withm]

I can find mine:

Tabouleh

1-3/4 cup bulghur
1 bunch green onions, chopped fine
1 cup fresh parsley, chopped fine
2 cups fresh mint, chopped fine
5-6 medium tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and chopped

Dressing
1/2 cup olive oil
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Pepper

Put bulghur in bowl, pour in 6-7 cups boiling water to cover. Let stand 3-4 hours, drain in colander (a couple hours is good, stir it up once in a while), squeeze excess water out and fluff with fork. Make sure the bulghar is really dry and fluffy. Add scallions, parsley and mint, and mix well. Fold in chopped tomatoes.

Mix dressing, pour over tabouleh and mix well with wide rubber spatula.

Cover and refrigerate. Best served the next day so flavors will blend.


Some people add chick peas, but I don't particularly care for them....
Martha

[Pedal Wench]

Cold sesame noodles with wilted spinach in a garlic/peanut sauce?

Buckwheat (soba) noodles, cooked and rinsed in cold water. Mix chopped garlic with soy sauce and slowly stir into heated peanut butter (or just a runny variety). Wilt some spinach, toss with noodles, sliced scallions and then add the sauce. Top with toasted sesame seeds and a few more scallions. Yum! Cold or room temp.

[ace]

Good suggestion, Pedal Wench. I made that for the last potluck. Unfortunately, someone else had made it, too, and it was much better than mine. Very sad.

[KnottedYet]

I vote for the tabouli!

(if you worry that someone else might have the same idea, you can make yours with quinoa instead of bulgar wheat. And the gluten-intolerant celiackers and wheat allergy folks can eat it, too!! )

[smilingcat]

Tabouli is popular I see... with quinona even.

Anyway, flafal:

2 cans of garbonzo beans 12oz?? size (the standard size can) rinsed and drained.

4 medium garlic chopped.
2 tsp cumin
2 tsp tumeric (add more if you want more color)
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup minced onion.
1/4 cup parsley
1 TBS lemon juice
cayenne to taste
1/3 cup AP flour

olive oil

method:

place garbonzo beans in food processor and grind it up. Add everything downto and including lemon juice and mix it in food processor. (hit the button a few more times.) taste and adjust with salt and cayenne.

remove the mix from the food processor and place the mix in a mixing bowl. Add AP flour. and mix with spatula or hand until incorporated.

I use a #40 ice cream scooper or use about 2 TBS of mix and make it into a flat ball. place the balls on a baking sheet and spritz with olive oil (or just dab some olive oil on the ball and bake in 350F oven for about 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

Men like this stuff its meaty tasting. And its filling!!
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Now you can eat flafal in several ways, in salad, or in a pita pocket with shredded/julienne lettuce leaves, tomato and cucmber dill yogurt sauce.

Very vegan!!

hummus

1 can of garbonzo beans rinsed and drained.
Tahini (ground sesame paste)
lemon juice
garlic minced (one or two cloves).
salt

I don't remember the quantity, I just go by looks/feel.

method:
puree garbonzo beans in food processor.
add tahini and continue with puree until smooth soft paste forms. Add lemon juice minced garlic puree some more and add salt to taste. It should be slightly sour and nutty tasting.

something different.

Shawn

[PAP103]

My kayak club occassionally does potlucks and everyone brings wonderful, healthy, exotic dishes which are a wonderful way for some of us to try different foods. I on the other hand always make macaroni and cheese. There are the finicks among us (sometimes me...) that won't try some of the fancy dishes. My macaroni and cheese always pleases some of the crowd and the bowl is always empty at the end of the party.

Patty