Chicken, oats, and sweet potatoes

Above:  Oat Flake Loaf topped with Saudi Kabsah.

Below:  Sweet Potatoes with Cranberries

Oat Flake Loaf

3 C Rolled Oats

3 C Water

2 Leeks or 1 Onion, sliced

1 clove Garlic

chopped Parsley

Olive oil to saute

Salt to taste

Saute the garlic and onions or leeks until they just start to brown.  Set aside , add more oil to pan, and toast the oats.  Let them brown but don't let them brown too much.  Stir in the water when the flakes just begin to brown.  Add salt and stir over medium heat until the mixture is thickened and becomes somewhat solid.  Stir in the onion and garlic and place everything into a greased oven safe casserole dish.  Bake at 400 F for one hour.  The top should be slightly brown and the inside soft and moist.

Saudi Kabsah

2 lbs Chicken

2 T Olive oil

1 medium Onion

1 clove Garlic, crushed

10 oz spaghetti sauce

1 t ground Cinnamon

1 t ground Ginger

1 t Salt

1 t ground Cumin

1 t ground Cardamom

1 t ground Coriander

1 t Black Pepper

This is a crock pot recipe.

Saute the onions, until they begin to brown.  Add the garlic, tomato sauce, and spices.  Cook until sauce begins to thicken into gravy.  Remove to crock pot insert.  Add more oil and brown the chicken pieces.  Place in the crock pot insert and spoon sauce over.  Add water to cover the chicken (amount will vary depending on the size of the insert).  Cook on Low for at least 10 hours.  About half way through, remove any chicken containing bones and pick bones out.  Add meat back to crock and continue cooking.  Take the lid off for the last hour to reduce the liquid to a thick gravy.

This chicken can be served over rice, as it's name suggests, or over bread, pasta, the oat loaf above, or just plain.

Sweet Potatoes with Cranberries

4 T Orange juice

2 T butter

2 T Olive or Vegetable oil

2 T Brown or Cane sugar

1 t ground Cinnamon

1/4 t Salt

2 lbs Sweet Potatoes

1/2 c dried Cranberries

This is a crock pot recipe.  In crock insert, mix juice, butter, oil, sugar, cinnamon, and salt.  Cover and cook on high while you peel the potatoes and cut them into 1-inch pieces.  Stir potatoes into sauce, cover, and cook on high for 3 to 4 hours.

** Oat Flake Loaf come from "The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency" by John Suffolk.  Saudi Kabsah from the World Cuisine Institute.  And the Sweet Potatoes with Cranberries from the Hamilton Beach Slow Cooker owner's manual.