She Says: BBQ Sauce & Apples
The inspiration for my contribution to this week’s Blogger Secret Ingredient go ’round, “Battle Apple” as chosen by Erin and Andrea at Care to Eat.
You see, one of my fav sandwich combos is turkey breast, thinly sliced apple and BBQ sauce, so I wanted to try to make a dinner, non-HFCS, meatless version. Here is what I came up with.
Let’s see how I got there.
BBQ Tofu, Apples, Sweet Potatoes & Wheat Berries
Ingredients:
1 Block Firm Tofu
BBQ Sauce of Choosing
1/2 Cup Uncooked Wheat Berries (or rice)
1 medium White Onion
Garlic
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 medium Granny Smith Apple
1 medium Sweet Potato
Steps:
(1) Prepare Tofu: Drain and cut tofu into desired shape and size. I did thin strips. Bake at 400* for about 20 minutes, then pour on about 2 T of BBQ sauce. Continue baking for about 20 more minutes or until tofu is crispy enough for you.
(2) Make Apple Mix: Cube onion, apple and sweet potato so they are the same size. After cubing sweet potato, drizzle with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and bake for about 20 minutes (until almost crisp enough for you). While sweet potato is cooking, sautee the onion and 1 garlic clove (chopped) in 1 cap of olive oil until soft. Add apple and cook for 2 or 3 minutes. Take of the heat and add (cooked) sweet potato and 1 T of BBQ sauce. Mix around on low heat. (Are these directions professional, or what?)
Onions + Garlic + Apples + Sweet Potatoes
(3) Cook Wheat Berries: Boil water, add wheat berries until cooked enough for you (should be chewy), drain.
(4) Add it all together: Cut up the BBQ Baked Tofu into cubes (like the veggies!) and add it to the Apple Mix. Add the wheat berries. Stir it all up.
(5) Eat and marvel at your great job.
I ate it warm, but I bet it will be great when I have it cold later this week for lunch leftovers!
Tags: apple, BBQ sauce, sweet potatoes, tofu, wheat berries
September 24th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Wow- that sounds awesome! I LOVE Apples and bbq sauce. Sounds like an awesome recipe. I’m book marking this!
September 24th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
(6) Thank Heather for her culinary genius
Sounds amazing!
September 24th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
that looks awesome!!
September 24th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
What an interesting combo! I don’t think I’ve ever had apples and BBQ sauce…I thought this was going to be like “mac & cheese and sugar”!
September 25th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Please move in with me.
September 25th, 2008 at 12:13 am
There’s a sandwich at the restaurant my BF tends at…yummy roasted turkey breast, melty provolone, sweet and tangy cranberry onion relish, greens, and super sourdough bread. DROOL. Let’s see you make that one into a little veggie skillet…
I’m on…
my way…
over.
Please have it ready!
September 25th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Wow! This recipe is incredible because it combines so many of my favorite foods that I honestly never would have thought to pair together – apples and BBQ sauce being just two of them. But add wheatberries to the mix, and I’m sold!!
Hehe, I like Mark’s comment best
September 25th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Ah see that ladies. The key to a man’s heart IS the stomach.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Totallu up my alley with that dish.. looks great!
September 25th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Ok I’m so boring and simplistic that I read your post and thought:
I totally could do sliced apples dipped in bbq sauce.
That’s my speed!
September 25th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Ooooooh, LOVE how you used the Blogger Secret Ingredient!!!
September 25th, 2008 at 7:59 am
First of all, BBQ sauce just makes anything taste awesome, but BBQ sauce, apples, and sweet potatoes…SO GOOD!!!! Great idea!!
What is this secret ingredient thing???
September 25th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Bridget,
The Blogger Secret Ingredient was originally started by Christie at Sportsnutritionliving for the blog community to share recipes. Each week a new blogger picks an ingredient and readers submit recipes using it!
Read more about it here: http://www.hangrypants.com/2008/09/she-says-the-new-blogger-secret-ingredient/
Heather
September 25th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Wow, that looks awesome!
September 25th, 2008 at 8:31 am
looks very interesting. I’ll have to try that!
PB and I DID a Battle Apple last fall, iron chef style. We each made an app, entree, and dessert and had my cousins vote. I won, probably because I made apple strudel from scratch. not an easy feat.
September 25th, 2008 at 8:54 am
We were definitely on the same wavelength last night. Something about apples and BBQ is just so right…
September 25th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Rhodeygirl,
That sounds like such fun. What did PB make?
Heather
September 25th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Very creative!
September 25th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I am SO making that this week! Those are all my favorite flavors!
September 25th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Mmmmm. I love apples in savory dishes. I am planning to serve them at my party on friday with a wisconsin cheddar & beer fondue. Does that count?
September 25th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
OOOH MAMA! That sounds so good and pretty easy Heather!
September 25th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
That looks so good! Seriously, I may actually make this.
September 25th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I have that same pig bowl. I use it to hold my measuring spoons and cups in.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I have to tell you Heather that it was delicious cold!
September 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I thought it would be!
September 27th, 2008 at 10:21 am
that looks so yummy!
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
I made this tonight! I subbed chicken for tofu because that’s what we had and I used TJ’s brown rice medley instead of the wheat berries and it was awesome! It tasted like fall.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Bridget, Oh wow! That’s awesome. I can’t say I’ve had anyone try one of my food recipes (other than my crazy baked creations). I hope you liked it.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
hmm bbq sauce and apples.. i have never tried that before
interesting…. ( mwuah mwuah haaaa *B_Healthy evil laugh)
November 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
i’ve never tried tofu before, but this is going to be my first attempt at it! looks absolutely amazingly delicious! thanks for the great recipe
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