Another Tasty Recipe

As promised, here's the recipe a couple residents and I made for an Iron Chef competition. Bear in mind that I have no idea of the proportions, so you're free to interpret it as you will, and substitute accordingly. It's a pretty basic dish that can clearly be changed based on your tastes and ingredients on hand.

Portuguese-Inspired Rice Patties

Patty Mixture

1-1 1/2 cups of rice, sticky or sushi preferred
1-2 onions, diced
1 lb. mushrooms, chopped finely
salt, pepper, garlic and thyme to taste
grated cheese (we used cheddar, but any kind would work)

Blackberry Sauce

1 carton blackberries
garlic to taste
water

Boil the rice until cooked. While the rice is cooking, sautee the onions and mushrooms together with oil and spices. Mix rice and mushroom mixture together in a large bowl with cheese. The resulting mixture should stick together well. Form mixture into small balls and fry in a pan with oil until brown. Tip: use plastic wrap to form balls, as it makes the step much cleaner and easier.

Create the blackberry reduction by cooking down the blackberries, garlic, and water in a pot until smooth.

When finished, drizzle blackberry sauce onto patties and serve.

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This can be done in many ways, using any kind of ingredients you want. We used onions and mushrooms, but any other vegetable (or meat) would do nicely as well. The foundational ingredients are the rice and cheese (and the cheese can be varied as well), so after that, it's up to you!