Three New Acai Berry Recipes
I'm a big fan of Rachel Ray, and when she had the show where she talked about acai berry, I got very excited. The only thing I thought was missing was more acai berry recipes from Rachael Ray. So I thought that I might do some experimenting of my own and come up with a few new recipes. I'm not a professional chef or anything, but I do have fairly good luck with modifying existing recipes and having pretty good results.
The first thing I tried was an acai berry juice marinade on chicken breast. This is just a variation of an orange juice and white pepper marinade I picked up in Nicaragua or the lime juice and soy marinade I had been using for years. I should note that I always marinade for at least six hours as any less time doesn't do much for me.
To make my marinated barbeque chicken I always start with chicken breasts cut up into strips. This makes my chicken turn out more or less like chicken satay, but without the peanut sauce. I threw the chicken in a Tupperware, added olive oil and acai berry juice, and to balance the acai sweetness, I decided to try some capers in the mix. I finished the marinade by adding sea salt to tenderize the meat. If you do add salt make sure to marinate your meat for a minimum of 6 hours, otherwise the salt will just end up drawing the juices out of your meat and you'll have tough dry chicken. By suppertime my chicken was ready to cook. As it turns out, it was quite tasty - similar to a wine marinade. I don't think I have the recipe quite right yet though, because my citrus chicken is still my favorite. Plus, it seems that a lot of the expensive acai is wasted in the marinade, instead of actually eating it.
Surely Rachel Ray would use acai more sensibly! The next recipe I tried was acai frozen yogurt and it was a much bigger success. I added acai berry juice to plain low fat yogurt. I poured the mixture into a screened drainer lined with two layers of cheese cloth. I then left the mixture in the fridge to drip into a bowl for 24 hours. After 24 hours the yogurt was the texture of cream cheese. It was perfect to spread on bagels or crackers at this point.
Once all the liquid has drained, take the remaining thickened mixture and put it into a Tupperware, and throw it in the freezer. Once you've frozen this to the hardness that you would like - anywhere from 4 hours to a day, what you end up with is a wonderful homemade healthy Acai Berry frozen yogurt. This is one of my favorite recipes, because I get the goodness of the acai berry, without the badness of ice-cream.
The last and most obvious recipe was an acai berry smoothie. I added ice, two frozen bananas, some plain low fat yogurt, and 1.5 cups of acai berry juice to the blender. Predictably, it was excellent. Smoothie recipes are almost fool proof. Don't forget to add a little wheat germ to smoothies to add some invisible protein and fibre to your smoothie recipes.
With a little imagination acai can be incorporated into many different recipes. Without much thought I was able to create a main course, desert and a smoothie. Although Rachel Ray acai berry recipes do not seem to currently exist I will continue looking and in the meantime I will be creating and writing about my own recipes. - 17268
The first thing I tried was an acai berry juice marinade on chicken breast. This is just a variation of an orange juice and white pepper marinade I picked up in Nicaragua or the lime juice and soy marinade I had been using for years. I should note that I always marinade for at least six hours as any less time doesn't do much for me.
To make my marinated barbeque chicken I always start with chicken breasts cut up into strips. This makes my chicken turn out more or less like chicken satay, but without the peanut sauce. I threw the chicken in a Tupperware, added olive oil and acai berry juice, and to balance the acai sweetness, I decided to try some capers in the mix. I finished the marinade by adding sea salt to tenderize the meat. If you do add salt make sure to marinate your meat for a minimum of 6 hours, otherwise the salt will just end up drawing the juices out of your meat and you'll have tough dry chicken. By suppertime my chicken was ready to cook. As it turns out, it was quite tasty - similar to a wine marinade. I don't think I have the recipe quite right yet though, because my citrus chicken is still my favorite. Plus, it seems that a lot of the expensive acai is wasted in the marinade, instead of actually eating it.
Surely Rachel Ray would use acai more sensibly! The next recipe I tried was acai frozen yogurt and it was a much bigger success. I added acai berry juice to plain low fat yogurt. I poured the mixture into a screened drainer lined with two layers of cheese cloth. I then left the mixture in the fridge to drip into a bowl for 24 hours. After 24 hours the yogurt was the texture of cream cheese. It was perfect to spread on bagels or crackers at this point.
Once all the liquid has drained, take the remaining thickened mixture and put it into a Tupperware, and throw it in the freezer. Once you've frozen this to the hardness that you would like - anywhere from 4 hours to a day, what you end up with is a wonderful homemade healthy Acai Berry frozen yogurt. This is one of my favorite recipes, because I get the goodness of the acai berry, without the badness of ice-cream.
The last and most obvious recipe was an acai berry smoothie. I added ice, two frozen bananas, some plain low fat yogurt, and 1.5 cups of acai berry juice to the blender. Predictably, it was excellent. Smoothie recipes are almost fool proof. Don't forget to add a little wheat germ to smoothies to add some invisible protein and fibre to your smoothie recipes.
With a little imagination acai can be incorporated into many different recipes. Without much thought I was able to create a main course, desert and a smoothie. Although Rachel Ray acai berry recipes do not seem to currently exist I will continue looking and in the meantime I will be creating and writing about my own recipes. - 17268
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