Tasty Sunny Chunks


1/2 sunflower seeds (raw)
1 cup brown rice, cooked until soft
1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup vital gluten (gluten flour)
1 cup Old Fashioned oats
1 medium red onion, peeled and chopped
1/2 cup sweet green and red pepper strips
1/2 tsp. garlic powder (1 tsp. if you're a garlic lover)
2 Tbsp. sweet paprika powder
Salt to taste
1 tsp. Italian Seasoning (or favorite herbs of your choice)
1 1/2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 cup water




In a bowl, pour 1/2 cup of the water, add the oats and leave it to soak till soft. Meanwhile, in a blender, with the rest of the water, process the brown rice with all the vegetables and the sunflower seeds, till smooth. Scrape into the bowl where the soft oats are. In another bowl, combine the whole wheat flour with the vital gluten, then add it to the other mixture, blending it well till you have a soft dough. If you want your chunks really firm (if you're going to drop them into broths, soups, spaghetti sauce or any minestrone, for example, you will want them to be firm) cover the dough and let it rest for 15 to 20 minutes while the vital gluten
does its work. If you're just going to serve these as a side dish, you do not need to let the dough rest.



Heat a skillet with olive oil. Cut half of the dough and put in the skillet, with a spatula, move the dough around in the skillet and as it cooks, cut it in chunks with the edge of the spatula, until you have separated it completely into chunks. Continue moving it while it cooks until it is golden brown on all sides. As you cook the chunks, when they are already beginning to get golden, you may add onions, pepper strips, slices of tomato, etc., to stir fry with the chunks (as seen in the first photo) or you may add a little bit of  tomato sauce, to give it a bit more color to your liking (as seen in the photo above.)




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