Rice And Bean Casserole

Ingredients

800 gr pink beans
300 gr brown rice
190 gr tomato paste
120 gr cottage cheese
30 gr onion
240 ml milk
32 gr wheat germ
2 gr parsley
2 garlic
5 ml tamari soy sauce
1 gr nutmeg
1 gr basil
32 gr sesame seeds

Instructions

-(less or more, to taste) Mix the beans, rice and tomato paste. Blend the garlic, onion, milk and soy sauce. Combine everything but sesame seeds into a baking dish. Shake the sesame seeds on top. Bake at 180ºC . for 40 min. Optional additions: 1 egg, about quarter t rosemary, about 1 t molasses, grated parmesan cheese on top, mace (to taste). NOTES: * A vegetarian bean, rice and cheese casserole. Yield: Serves 4-6. * Substitutions: (I have not tried all combinations!) : o beans: pinto or almost any kind : o rice: barley for some or all : o cottage cheese: plain yoghurt or tofu : o wheat germ: grape nuts, bulgur wheat, oatmeal, etc. : o milk: anything from water to whole milk : o nutmeg: cinnamon : o egg: tapioca flour and starch paste : o molasses: blackstrap molasses or honey : Difficulty: easy. : Time: 15 minutes preparation (if rice is already cooked), 45 minutes cooking. : Precision: approximate measurement OK. : Dave Dameron dameron@glacier.ARPA : Organization: Stanford University, IC Laboratory : If you have rocks in your head, open a quarry. : Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust