More Rhubarb Recipes

Rhubarb Lime Muffins
(makes 24)

- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 3/4 cups brown sugar
- 3/4 cup demerara sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cardamom
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup nonfat plain yogurt
- 2/3 cup canola oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- juice from one lime
- rhubarb pulp

Topping:
- 1/2 cup demerara sugar
- 2 tablespoons melted butter/margarine
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon

1. preheat oven to 375 F
2. make topping first
3. then combine dry ingredients. in a separate bowl, combine wet ingredients except rhubarb
4. pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients, fold in rhubarb
5. put in greased muffin pans, top with sugar mixture
6. place muffin pans on cookie sheets so that the bottoms/sides don't overcook
7. cook for about 18 minutes



I came up with this recipe using this one--this is usually how I come up with my own recipes. I look at a recipe and say, hmm I can make this better. Or, oh man, I don't have enough brown sugar left. Any I have all these limes I need to use. Anyway, I'm not a big muffin/cupcake person because usually they are dry and mediocre if not eaten straight from the oven. Not so with these. They were the best muffins I have ever made or tasted. The flavors were right on (Mark: "yum, did you put cardamom in these?") and they were perfectly cooked: not raw, completely cooked, not a dry speck on the muffin. They weren't fluffy, which is why I directed to make the topping first so that you don't loose all that leavening if you wait til the end to make it. But otherwise they were delicious. Also, I pulled them out will they still looked a little goopy on top--they will continue cooking in the pan...

Rhubarb Ice Cream
- 1 1/2 to 2 cups rhubarb juice
- 1-2 cups whole milk

Pour ingredients into ice cream maker. The end.

Next time I make this ice cream, I will use more rhubarb juice and less milk (2 cups juice to 1 cup milk). It had a nice, subtle rhuby flavor but I wanted more. Also, if you use heavy cream instead of whole milk, it will refreeze much better. But you don't have to add any additional sugar. Perhaps juice from 1 lime would work well too...

Cardamom
this stuff is really expensive. sometimes. at the store I usually shop at, it is like 20 bucks! but I found a large jar (as opposed to the tiny 2 oz ones) at Whole Foods for 4 bucks. sweet deal!