Southwest Bulgur Loaf

Sam #3's Note:

From Betty Crocker's New Eat and Lose Weight Cookbook.

• Total Time: 35 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 2 3/4 cups bulgur, cooked
• 1 cup rice, cooked
• 1 cup fat free sour cream
• 3/4 cup monterey jack cheese, shredded
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 2 (4 ounce) cans green chilies, chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Mix all ingredients in loaf pan.
3. Bake 30 minutes.
4. Let stand 10 mins before slicing.

Reviews

[bluemoon downunder]

A superbly flavoursome vegetarian loaf. It was Kathy228's wonderful photographs and then -a reading of the ingredients - that lured me into wanting to make this recipe. The only hitch, for me, was the inclusion of chili and chillies (I have zero tolerance of hot spices) , but Sam #3 gave me the okay to make it without these ingredients. So then I had the challenge of introducing flavours to compensate for the omitted ingredients. I simply added what goes well with tabbouli (and I far from exhausted the possibilities here) and added 1/2 cup chopped parsley, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, a cup of thinly sliced mushrooms (from memories of a wonderful vegetarian terrine eaten on several occasions in a restaurant) and about a teaspoon of thyme. Then, prompted by Kathy228's comment that the loaf tasted as if there were nuts in it, I added 1/4 cup chopped pistachios. I've never seen monterey jack cheese for sale here, so I used one of Zaar's suggested substitutions: gouda. We ate this wonderful loaf warm with Shelby Jo's Dutch Potatoes 317320 and ChicagoRN Tomato and Feta Salad 317347. Sam #3, thank you so, so much for posting this recipe. I'm feeling totally impatient to explore a lot more possible variations of it. This initial adaptation we really loved. To use bulgur and rice as the base is just such a brilliant idea. So again, thank you! Made for the Please Review My Recipe tag game.

[Kathy228]

Delicious vegetarian loaf. It almost tastes like there's nuts in it. The monterey cheese flavor came right through. For a little heat, I added 1 tbsp each minced onions and jalapeno peppers. I halved the recipe and it still made two half-loaf pans. I liked this a lot. Thanks for posting it Sam.