Cooking Demos at FISH

Celeste Greenwood of the Washington State University Pierce County Extension will once again be offering cooking demos in our food banks during the month of January. Remaining dates are:
Lakes FISH:  Monday, Jan. 24, 2:00-5 pm
Graham FISH: Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2:00-5 pm
Northwest FISH: Wednesday, Jan. 19, 12:00-4pm
Southeast FISH: Friday, Jan. 21, 11:00 am-4 pm
                             Friday, Jan. 28, 11:00 am-4 pm
Edgewood FISH: Saturday, Jan. 22, 11:00 am-2 pm
                             Saturday, Jan. 29, 10:30 am-2 pm


Recipes shared in the demos will feature ingredients from the food banks. One of the recipes will be "Rice a'Ghetti," shared below. Other demos will feature cooking dry beans and making low-fat refried beans.

Rice A’ghetti with Canned Peas

Ingredients

1 tsp vegetable oil
1 onion, diced
1 lb. ground turkey
1 Tbsp garlic powder
1 cup uncooked rice
½ cup spaghetti, broken into 1 inch pieces
2.5 cups of water or broth
1 ‐15 oz can of tomato sauce
1 ‐14.5 oz can of peas, drained
black pepper to taste

Preparation
1. Heat oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and cook until they soften.
2. Add ground turkey and garlic powder to the skillet; stir occasionally until turkey is close to done.
3. Add rice and spaghetti pieces to turkey mixture. Stir until rice and spaghetti start to brown.
4. Add the water or broth and tomato sauce.
5. Cover and let simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.
6. Add can of drained peas. Stir and cook for 5 minutes longer or until the rice and spaghetti are tender and peas are heated. Add pepper to taste.