My FIL gave me some rhubarb and I wonder what ideas you have for it! I could make some strawberry rhubarb pie (although my hubby can't eat the strawberries due to the seedss ince he has Crohns disease), but I think that woujld only take a little bit of it. He gave me quite a few stalks.
What do you use rhubarb for? TIA!
Lots of great ideas so far! Thank you
"Yellow" - I would LOVE that recipe - diet can start tomorrow, right? LOL
I second Cheryl with the rhubarb sauce!! My husband loves it - he grew up eating the sauce on his ice cream or cake. I like it in pie.
Rhubarb compote. (I like stewing it with vanilla bean.) Rhubarb, sugar, vanilla bean. Cook. Spoon over something yummy like vanilla ice cream.
This cake from Smitten Kitchen. I think the original recipe was Martha Stewart. I went back to the original use of vanilla over ginger since 1) I love vanilla bean and rhubarb and 2) my kiddos were more likely to eat it with vanilla vs ginger.
http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2012/05/rhubarb-snacking-c...
J. - my parents LOVE rhubarb!! I personally can't stand it.
We had it growing in our garden in Belgium and when my parents came over to visit - they were in Rhubarb heaven!!
Rhubarb cobbler.
Rhubarb pie
Rhubard sauce - to put on top of ice cream...add sugar or cake
mix with:
pineapple
peaches
Since you can't do strawberries....
make sure you take the ends off - the end that goes in the ground - take the leaf off - it's poisonous.
Since it's VERY sour - you will sugar - lots of sugar!!
You can freeze rhubarb!!
I LOVE rhubarb torte. It's sinful though. It has a brown sugar/butter crust, a rhubarb custard center and a meringue top. It's a little tedious to make, but it's delightful. No strawberries. Let me know if that appeals to you and you want the recipe. My grandma likes to make rhubarb sauce like others have suggested and I've heard that fancy chefs actually make savory dishes with it.
Rhubarb Torte recipe from my mother's recipe collection. She died in October and I just made this in her honor in June and because my dad and I were craving it.
Crust:
1 c. softened butter
1 c. packed brown sugar
2 c. flour
Mix and pat into 9x13 pan. Bake for 10 min. at 350.
Custard center:
5 egg yolks (save the whites), beat lightly
2 c. sugar (my grandma likes it tart and recommends less sugar)
6 Tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 c. cream or milk (I used 1/2 and 1/2)
4-5 c. chopped rhubarb
Beat eggs and sugar together. Add remaining ingredients, stirring in rhubarb last. Pour over baked crust. Bake for 50 min. at 350.
Meringue topping:
Beat the 5 egg whites, add 3/4 c. sugar gradually. Spread on top of baked custard/crust combo and bake for an additional 15 min. at 350.
It's not a great keeper, although it will last a couple of days. It's best fresh out of the oven!
Strawberry Rhubarb jelly- Brings back great child hood memories.
FYI- you can "peel" the strawberries to remove the seeds and then can your hubby have it?
Rhubarb pie is great with or without the strawberries.
Guess you could use strawberry jelly in place of strawberries so the seeds won't irritate your Hubby's condition.
http://allrecipes.com/recipes/fruits-and-vegetables/veget...
yum, rhubarb.
In addition to sauce and pie (no strawberries needed), as kids we would straight-up eat it like celery, with the end dipped in sugar then crunch off the rhubarb/sugar mix. It is sour though, but I like that sweet-sour mix.
I miss rhubarb! We used to grow it in Iowa... it doesn't do well in Texas, though.
Anyway, I used to make a rhubarb bread.... it was wonderful having that little bit of tart in the sweet bread.... so yummy! Leave out the nuts if your hubby can't tolerate them...
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/rhubarb-bread-i/
I also made the strawberry rhubarb jelly... it just uses strawberry jello, no fresh strawberries.....
Oh, yum. I love, love, love rhubarb!
I never do anything fancy with it. I chop it up, throw it in a pot with a little water, sugar, sometimes cinnamon, and just boil it until it's mushy. I don't strain it, I just eat it! My kids love it too. I have pictures of my son licking his bowl when he was a year old! I sometimes dump some on top of a bowl of vanilla ice cream or add it to some yogurt. Most of the time though I just eat it like applesauce :)
I love it so much, but am not a fan of strawberry/rhubarb anything, although I love fresh strawberries. Rhubarb is great on it's own, it doesn't need any help from strawberries!
You can make rhubarb pie without the strawberries.
I love to peel it and eat it cold sprinkled with salt. That's honestly my favorite way to eat it.
OK now I am craving raspberry rhubarb bars. Can your husband have raspberries? You make it like a slab pie- a rectangle of pie crust on the bottom, filling in the middle, another layer of crust on the top. After it bakes and cools, you drizzle it with a thin vanilla icing (powdered sugar thinned with milk and a dash of vanilla extract). Then You cut them into squares. Giant squares if you're me... Yuuumm. They stay awhile kept in the fridge. I have the complete recipe if you want, but I assume any pie crust recipe/method works, so other than that you combine 2 cups sugar, 1/3 cup cornstarch, 5 cups raspberries, 3 cups sliced rhubarb. Toss it together, put it between the 2 rectangles of crust and bake at 375 for 50 min.
That brown sugar crust thing below sounds awesome too.
I like to peal and eat fresh with salt.
I love straight up rhubarb pie. We actually planted some a couple years ago just to have that pie, fresh.
I use rhubarb for rhubarb and apple crumble. Service with custard and ice cream.
I make strawberry rhubarb jam, it is so yummy the kids sometimes eat it plain over ice cream, and it keeps better then pie.
My great grandma used to make rhubarb sauce for ice-cream and pancakes. It was AMAZING. I'm pretty sure she just chopped it up and stewed it down, then strained out the strings, and then made it into a syrup with sugar. It was delicious!
