f MICROWAVE MINUTES im When you think of soybeans, do you think of luscious strawberry pie and healthy crunchy granola? February is Soybean Month in my home state of Minnesota. Even if it isn’t in your state, I thought you’d like today’s delicious and nutrmous recipes. Many food products are made with soybean oil. Soybean oil is low in saturated fat and has a unique balance of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fats, which tend to have a favorable effect on serum cholesterol (which is thought to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease). But what, you ask, does straw berry pie have to do with soy beans? Notice that Frosty Straw berry Pie calls for a food not com monly found in pie. Soybean oil mayonnaise is in both the crpst and in the filling. It adds a won derful tang and helps make this an elegant-looking and supertastmg pie. Besides, it’s fun to serve because no one can guess what magic ingredient it contains! 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About 80 percent of salad and vegetable oils are made with soy oil. But read the label to make sure. Soybean Nuts add extra crunch and protein to Soybean Granola. I was always curious about making those trendy Soybean Nuts, which are so expensive to buy in health food stores. I knew they were more nutritious than many other snacks, and I knew how good they tasted. But when I had lots of free soybeans around to experiment with, I only made soybean nuts twice. I deep-fat-fned them my least favorite cooking method so I never made them again. Now that I live in a large city, I had to go out and pay 99 cents a pound to do my experimenting. And, now that I’ve found how easy they are to make, I’ll be making them again. I found that microwave toasting the pre-soaked soybeans worked fine, but only if making a small Kubota NICARRY EQUIPMENT CO. RD #2, Box 2008, Reading, Pa. 19605 215-926*2441 Located: 4 Mites North of Reading On Rt. 61 3 Mllaa South of Loasport Hours: Mon., thru Frl. 6 to 5; Sal. 8 to 3 Conventional oven: This method is easiest for a large amount. Stir together soaked soy beans and 1 teaspoon soybean oil (for each cup of soaked soybeans) on a large cookie sheet. Bake at 350’ F 50 to 60 minutes, stirring after each 15 minutes, or until soy beans are light golden brown. Microwave oven: “Roast” no more than 2 cups at a time. Stop and let your microwave cool before cooking additional batches. For 2 cups of soaked soybeans: Combine soybeans with 1 teas poon soybean oil in a microwav able and heat-proof glass 9- or 10-mch pie plate. Microwave (High), uncovered, 10 to 12 minutes, stirring after each 2 minutes, or until soybeans look slightly browned. 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IB Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Fabruary 16, 1991-813 Soybean Granola 4 cups uncooked oatmeal (not instant) 1 cup wheat germ 1 cup roasted soybeans (sec above) 1 cup sliced almonds or other nuts 1 cup sunflower nuts 14 cup wheat-bran cereal V* cup honey 6 tablespoons soybean oil 14 teaspoon salt (optional) 2 teaspoons vanilla Combine oatmeal, wheat germ, soybean nuts, almonds, sunflower nuts and wheat-bran cereal in a microwavable 9x13- or Bxl2-mch dish; set aside. Place honey, soybean oil and salt, if used, in a microwavable 4-cup measure. Microwave (High) 114 to 214 minutes. Mixture should boil for about 30 seconds. Stir in vanilla. Pour over dry ingredients in dish; mix until well moistened. Microwave (High) 8 to 10 minutes or until mixture is steaming and slightly toasted, stirring well after each 2 minutes. Watch carefully toward end of cooking so it doesn’t burn. Pour onto large coo kie sheet and cool completely, stirring several limes. Granola will become crisp as it cools. Store in airtight container in refrigera tor. Makes 8 cups. Hint: Stir at limes indicated, oi granola will bum in spots, espe cially toward end of cooking. Tc stir, move outside edges of mix ture to center and center parts tc outside edges. Each 14 -cup serving: 311 calo rics, 1 Ig protein, 17g fat, 33g car bohydrate, 19mg sodium, C cholesterol. Frosty Strawberry Pie l'/< cups cinnamon graham crack er crumbs (about 8 whole crack ers, finely crushed) 'A cup low-calorie soybean oil mayonnaise 'A cup low-calorie soybean oil mayonnaise 2 tablespoons slightly thawed fro zen lemonade concentrate 1 package (10 ounces) frozen 1 6S NEED PM PAINTING & WATERPROOFING 20 Cocalico Creek Rd., Ephrala, PA 17522 717-859-1127 strawberries with sugar, thawed 1 pint (2 cups) regular or lower calorie vanilla ice cream Mix crumbs and '/< cup low calorie soybean oil mayonnaise until well combined. Pat mixture evenly into bottom and sides of a microwavable 9-inch pie plate. Microwave (High) VA to I'A minutes, rotating plate once. When done, crust will feel firm in most spots. Chill well before filling. Using electric mixer, beat together 'A cup low-calorie soy bean oil mayonnaise and lemo nade concentrate until smooth. Add strawberries and beat until strawberries are crushed and no white specks of mayonnaise remain. Add ice cream and beat just until combined. Poor into cool crust and freeze until firm. Makes on 9-inch pie (6 to 8 servings). Hint: To partially thaw straw berries, remove strawberries to a microwavable dish. Microwave (High) 1 minute; break apart with a fork. If ice cream is very hard, microwave 2 cups for about 30 seconds or until slightly softened, but not melted. Each serving —V* of pie, made with regular ice cream: 253 calo rics, 3g protein, llg fat, 73g car bohydrate, 265 mg sodium, 13mg cholesterol. Hint: To make crust the easy way, use your food processor. Place broken-up crackers in dry work bowl fitted with knife blade. Process with on-off pulses until fine crumbs form. Add mayon naise and process with on-off pul ses until well-mixed. Questions for Joyce? Do you have a question about microwave cooking? Send it to Microwave Minutes, % Extra Newspaper Features, P.O. Box 6118, Rochester, Minn. 55903. Please include a self-addressed, stamped, business-size envelope. Recipes in this column are tested in 600- and 650-watl micro wave ovens. With an oven of dif ferent wattage output, timings may need slight adjustment. D? ★★★★★★★ Guide Aims To Increase Veal Sales A cutting and mer chandising brochure has been developed by the Veal Committee of the Beef Industry Council (BIC) to provide retail meat cutters with new ideas to increase veal sales. The (lip chan bro chure, “Veal Variations: New Cutting and Mer chandising Ideas,“ is designed to help retail ers offer customers a wider selection of veal cuts. It shows there’s an alternative to the S 9 per pound cut. 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