Suite Family Greens
From vin 15 years agoIngredients
- 2 lbs. Fresh Dandelions (Dandelions are the absolute 1st choice if you can find them.... And you really can always find them by simply picking them yourself from a fresh field.) shopping list
- 2 lbs. fresh spinach (or: Chinese cabbage, bok choy, kale, mustard greens, beet Greens, swiss chard... Any Greens you may find in a local market)) shopping list
- 2 lbs. yellow onions (Strong onions work best, sweet onions lose their individual flavor too easily. I don't use red onions here but you might like their flavor) shopping list
- 2 15-oz. Cans Cannelloni beans. (Any beans are fine but we like the Italian style ingredients since it is so much our heritage) shopping list
- 4 Large sweet bell peppers (Sweet poblano peppers are better if you can get them inexpensively) shopping list
- 8-10 Medium Hot Chile peppers shopping list
- (Your fave chiles, Serrano, jalapeno, Hot bananas, etc.. Maybe 1 or 2 habaneros if you want more heat) shopping list
- 2 15-oz. Cans Italian stewed tomatoes (Substitute with any of the many diced and stewed variations you may find in your local market.) shopping list
- 3 12-oz Cans straw mushrooms (Any 'Shrooms will work, We always grab the least expensive canned variety available.) shopping list
- 1 Large Bulb fennel shopping list
- 3 Whole Bulbs garlic shopping list
- 12-oz Jar capers shopping list
- 1 10-oz Jar Green pimento stuffed olives shopping list
- 6 tblsp dried oregano shopping list
- 8-10 bay leaves shopping list
- 2 tbsp ground black pepper shopping list
- 16 oz. olive oil (Extra Virgin if you can find it inexpensively.) shopping list
- 2 small bunches chopped fresh Cai cilantro (My fave is wide leaf Cai cilantro.. If you can find it... Exquisite!) shopping list
- Grated romano cheese. shopping list
- 8 oz balsamic vinegar shopping list
- 1 Large rutabaga shopping list
- If you can't find fresh greens, You can always find canned greens and all canned ingredients... The idea is that when you are on-the-road you must eat healthy and avoid white flour sandwiches and fried fast food to survive. shopping list
How to make it
- The first thing I wanna say here is a discovery we made while on the road. For years our family always made greens the old fashioned way by cooking them slowly on a stove-top in a large pot. By necessity we needed to use the microwave to help cook in our hotel. By prepping the vegetable in the microwave first we have found a better way to make the dish quicker and more tender. Microwaves cook by boiling water molecules using molecular resonance. The boiling water molecules explode much of the interstitial fibrous vegetable matter at the cellular level tenderizing the vegetable!! So now we use this method as a standard!!
- Chop all vegetables into approx. 1-in. square pieces. (Chop the vegetable to your preferred density. We use the old Italian philosophy of cutting food into pieces no smaller than the size of a jumbo olive.)
- Chop the Garlic and Cilantro fine.
- Chop Olives into 2 pieces or leave whole if they are very small.
- Mix half the Olive Oil, Rutabaga, Onions, Peppers, Fennel, Oregano, Bay Leaves and Black Pepper into a microwavable bowl. Microwave Onion mixture on high for 12 mins.
- Add Remaining olive oil to pot on stove-top. Heat oil until shimmering.
- Add Mushrooms and Chopped Garlic to heated oil and cook until lightly browned.
- Add Stewed Tomatoes, Copped Olives, Capers, Chopped Cilantro, Cannelloni Beans,
- When microwaved onion mixture is done, Add entire vegetable mixture to browned Garlic in pot on stove-top. Reserve part of the liquid from the onion mixture in same microwaveable bowl. Cook in stove-top pot on med-hi heat stirring regularly.
- Add chopped Greens and Peppers to microwavable bowl and reserved liquid. microwave on high for 8-10 mins until completely limp.
- Add Greens, Peppers, and liquid to stove-top pot.
- Remove Bay Leaves at end of cook time.
- Add Balsamic Vinegar to batch at very end and mix into batch thouroughly.
- Cook Vegetables on Medium-Hi for 30-mins stirring regularly..
- Serve in bowls with Romano Cheese sprinkled on top. We also like a to have a good whole grain bread with them to soak up the delicious juice.
- We all experience a real rush of energy the day after when we have to face our inevitable workout at the gym; another necessity for healthy life as a road warrior.
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love greens tasty thanks high5
momo_55grandma in Mountianview loved it -
Wow, this sounds sooo goood!!! Love the addition of dandelions! So unique!
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