Rachel Ray acai berry recipes are hard to find. After searching off and on for a number of days I gave up searching but I hadn’t given up hope. I decided to experiment in my own kitchen. Often some of my favorite recipes are those I’ve stumbled across when I’ve had to switch one ingredient for another in a pinch.
The first recipe I wanted to try is “Acai Berry Marinated Bar-B-Q Chicken”. As a starting point, I used one of my most popular marinade recipes, which includes a lot of citrus and white pepper. I thought that I could replace the citrus with the acai berry, and add a few other ingredients to balance the different taste the acai would have.
I cut the chicken breast into strips and pour acai juice and some extra virgin cold pressed olive oil over the pieces. In an effort to cut the sweetness, I added some sea salt and crushed capers. The result was interesting and got fairly good reviews. I didn’t like it as much as my stand by marinades so I won’t be likely to repeat this recipe. Also I ended up tossing much of the acai goodness down the drain which entirely defeats the health benefits of acai berry juice. Additionally, acai is more expensive than lime juice or orange juice so it was a slightly expensive experiment.
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.
Once the yogurt has drained, I just peel/scrape the mixture off of the cheesecloth into a Tupperware and then into the freezer. After about 8 hours I have a wonderful frozen yogurt desert, that is not too sweet, and has all the acai berry nutrition benefits. If you like your frozen yogurt harder or softer you can adjust the time you leave it in the freezer to change the consistency.
For my final recipe I decided that I wanted to try my own version of the typical breakfast meal in a glass – the fruit smoothie. Here’s my recipe: ice cubes (3 or 4), a frozen banana, 1/3 cup plain or vanilla yogurt, 2/3 cup of acai juice. Add ingredients to the blender and blend until smooth. You’ll notice I said frozen banana – if you cut your banana in chunks and freeze it before making a smoothie, you end up with a thicker creamier drink. Depending on the sweetness of my acai juice, I might end up adding a little maple syrup for extra sweetness. Anyway, this turned out to be the best recipe, in my opinion.
With a little imagination acai can be incorporated into many different recipes. Without much thought I was able to create a main course, desert and a smoothie. Although Rachel Ray acai berry recipes do not seem to currently exist I will continue looking and in the meantime I will be creating and writing about my own recipes.
Read more about finding a acai berry recipe at I Love Acai Berry.
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