In The ZONA - East Valley Jan. 2014 | Page 13

family recipes Recipes submitted by: Chef Whitney from Camelback Desert School Chicken and wild rice soup I ngredients: • 2 tablespoons olive oil • 1 small onion , diced • 1 teaspoon fr esh thyme • 4 cups hot wat er • 1 cup celery, diced • pepper • 16 oz. chicken breast, diced • 1 teaspoon ga rlic, minced • 1 16 oz. can cr ushed Tomatoe s • 2 cups carrot s, diced • 1 ½ cups wild rice • sea salt Directions : Place a soup pot over medium h eat and add the chicken onion, olive oil. Add th garlic, pepper, and thyme. Coo e minutes, until k and stir for ab the chicken is lig out 5 htly browned ve Pour in the wat getables are soft er and tomatoe ened. s then bring th in the rice and e liquid to a bo remaining vege il. Add tables; season w taste. Cook on ith salt and pep medium-low u per to ntil the rice an about 30 minut d vegetables ar es then enjoy. e tender Yield: 6 servings cranberry almond granola Ingredients: • 6 cups old fashioned oats • 1 cup milled flax seed eal • 2 cups crispy brown rice cer d almonds (optional) • 2 cups slivere • 3/4 cup honey • 3/4 cup sunflower oil • 1/4 cup brown sugar • 1 tablespoon cinnamon • 1 cup dried cranberries Directions: rees F. then Line two 1. Preheat the oven to 300 deg paper. baking sheets with parchment cereal, flax seed, brown 2. In a bowl combine oats, rice a large bowl and set aside. sugar, and slivered almonds, in r medium heat honey, 3. In a sauce pan bring to boil ove over the dry ingredients, cinnamon, and oil. Then pour is coated lightly. Spread the and stir until the entire mixture sheets in a thin a layer. mixture out evenly on the baking for 30 minutes, stirring 4. Bake in the preheated oven s shut heat off and let cool every 10 min. after 30 minute pletely mix in the dried in the oven. Once cooled com cranberries and serve. Yield: 30, 4oz. servings To submit a recipe, email Anna at [email protected] inthezona.com January 2014 / 13