Cabernet Roasted Red Potatoes with Vegetables

[SactoBob]

This is a recipe developed by my wife, Farley. It tastes great

Cabernet Roasted Red Potatoes with Vegetables

In a large bowl mix the following:

2 lbs Red potatoes chopped
2 Large portobello mushrooms chopped
1 Red onion chopped
1 Yellow or orange bell pepper chopped
1 Can of low sodium Red Kidney Beans rinsed and drained

All the veggies to be chopped in large bite-sized pieces

3 cloves of minced garlic
1 TBS each of dried ground basil and thyme or a little more if desired
ground pepper to taste

Add about 1/2 c of Cabernet and toss (no oil/no salt vegetable broth works also)
Place in a large roasting dish with high sides
Roast in oven at 375 and cook for at least 60 minutes
About half-way through roasting check to see if it's drying out...if so add more wine.

Serve on bed of brown rice and chopped greens

[frozenveg]

Oh Bob, this sounds fabulous! We are flying home to an empty kitchen tomorrow, and I think this will be the basis for my quickie shopping list--have to check on our Cabernet, and send DH to the Oaken Keg!!

[SactoBob]

Don't worry about Cabernet. Any red wine will do. LOL, I forgot that she even used red wine in that recipe - another processing point for me? But you could use water. The wine cooks off and you can't even taste it.

But the recipe is really delicious - one of my favorites. And it keeps and reheats well. She will also add or substitute whatever veggies are in season. Everything tastes great cooked this way. The roasting dish can be hard to clean because no oil is used.

[merriweather]

Reynolds makes these bags to roast in. They also have ones to line crock pots. My question is , Are they safe? I am not sure what kind of plastic it is. It is made for the oven, not for the microwave.

[SactoBob]

Why not post the question to Jeff. I would like to know too. I am skeptical about anything that sounds like plastic, but if it were known to be safe . . . we probably still wouldn't use it. But maybe in a pinch . . .

[nomikins]

Line the pans with parchment paper for easier cleanup. I don't cook anything in plastic.

[Letha..]

Hi SactoBob,
I got a very similar recipe to this from your wife Gabagirl’s Recipe Journal. I made it and it was very good. I even put it on my blog with photos.

http://mwlfood.wordpress.com/2009/02/15 ... d-veggies/

Letha

[SactoBob]

Parchment paper sounds better to me than plastic. I am going to mention that to Farley. I'm glad you liked the recipe, Letha. Now that I have figured out how to post pics, I'll try to get one here the next time we prepare it. It is one of my favorites, so it shouldn't be long.

[ETeSelle]

Mmmmmm. This is one I'm printing out!

[luvnveggies]

Thank you for posting this, Bob. I made it tonight and I love it. Plenty of leftovers, as well. I will say, it did end up taking about an hour and a half to finally cook. I don't know if I cut the potatoes too big or if my oven is off, probably, a combination of both, lol. Either way, it was wonderful. I ate it just as you said, over rice with greens on the side. It made the house smell great, too.

[SactoBob]

Danielle,
Glad you liked it. And other than timing, there isn't much danger in cooking too long. Everything just gets crisper and IMO tastier. I hope the leftovers are good. If you like this recipe, my wife used to post here in the recipe section under the name gabagirl. She had a recipe journal you could see here. viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6673 I think everything in there is great.

[luvnveggies]

Thank you, again, Bob. I will, definitely, check out your wife's recipes. As the only one in my family following this plan, I need all the help I can get, lol.

[SactoBob]

Here is a picture of the dish before roasting.

[Rob]

Bob - This looks delicious! I showed my wife the recipe and we're planning to have it for dinner this evening. A couple questions, however:

1. Have you ever tried the recipe with white cooking wine? We don't consume alcoholic beverages and consequently don't keep any wine around the house other than a small bottle of white cooking wine that a few of Mary's recipes call for. We had a bottle of red cooking wine that had been around (opened) for a few years and I can't remember the last time we used it - so I pitched it.

2. Have you every tried preparing this dish in the crock pot? We've been preparing potatoes and squash in the crop pot without adding any liquid and they come out great. I'm not so sure how will come out with adding the liquid from the cooking wine.

Thanks!

[SactoBob]

Rob,
Farley always makes it the same way, but I don't see why your ideas wouldn't work. I think you could even use water instead of wine. The idea is to just have liquid in there.

You could try a crock pot, but I would think it would be a lot different. Who knows, maybe it would be a great idea. Let us know.

For crockpot, Farley's Dal dish, in her recipe journal, if fantastic. She also made a bean curry dish the other day that I want her to write down.