Acai Berry Recipes Inspired by Rachel Ray
It’s difficult to find acai berry recipes. I’m a big fan of Rachel Ray, and she recently featured the acai berry on one of her shows, so I thought for sure that I could find some Rachel Ray acai berry recipes online. But after a few days of searching, I decided that I should just start inventing some of my own.
The first thing I tried was an acai berry juice marinade on chicken breast. This is just a variation of an orange juice and white pepper marinade I picked up in Nicaragua or the lime juice and soy marinade I had been using for years. I should note that I always marinade for at least six hours as any less time doesn’t do much for me.
I generally butterfly chicken breasts so I can reduce cooking time, lessening the chance that I will overcook and dry them out. I should also note that this citrus recipe works best if you bar-b-q or cook your chicken on an open grill. I use a pyrex dish to add all the ingredients to marinate the chicken. I would normally add the juice of 2 oranges, but for this recipe I’m adding juice from one orange, 1/2 cup of acai berry juice, juice of one lime, 4-8 cloves of garlic, 1/2 t white pepper, 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil, and a little ground sea salt. Well, after it I marinated overnight, and bar-b-q’ed the pollo, the consensus was that although the acai version was tasty, the original recipe was still the best marinade. Well, perhaps that’s for the best, acai berry is pretty expensive to have most of it burn off or drip down onto the coals.
Surely Rachel Ray would use acai more sensibly! The next recipe I tried was acai frozen yogurt and it was a much bigger success. I added acai berry juice to plain low fat yogurt. I poured the mixture into a screened drainer lined with two layers of cheese cloth. I then left the mixture in the fridge to drip into a bowl for 24 hours. After 24 hours the yogurt was the texture of cream cheese. It was perfect to spread on bagels or crackers at this point.
So once the yogurt and acai berry mixture has been mixed and whipped, put it in a Tupperware and freeze it for a minimum of 6 hours. Once it is frozen to your taste – some people prefer just a chilled version, others like really hard frozen yogurt – serve, and enjoy! This recipe so far is the favorite, and versatile as well. You can use it as a non-frozen bagel spread, or throw it in the freezer for a frozen version perfect for a hot summer day.
Finally, I tried my own version of the old standby, the fruit smoothie. Actually there are a lot of acai berry juice mixes that have a creamy consistency and are called ’smoothies’ on the label, but I like to make my smoothies fresh so I get the little bit of ice chips right in the smoothie. I mixed ice, banana, yogurt and acai berry juice in my blender, and blended until smooth. A trick I like to use is to freeze the banana before adding it, which makes the smoothy even creamier. In any event, as predicted, this was pretty delicious.
So my first attempt at acai berry inspired recipes turned out not so bad. I’m happy with two out of three successful recipes for my first attempt. Granted, my acai berry inventions are not nearly as delicious as what I imagine an acai berry recipe from Rachel Ray. I’ll keep trying though and perhaps I will eventually come up with some amazing recipes to use this amazing super food in.
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Written by Jane A Moore on December 9th, 2009 with
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