Easy to make and delicious

Chicken casseroles are easy to make, it tastes wonderful and they can be adapted different ways and can be made ahead of time. You just need around 15 minutes to rustle up an amazing casserole. If you get back home early you can just throw in the ingredients and make a great casserole in no time at all. The VitaClay 2-in-1 Rice N' Slow Cooker - 6 cup makes your task even easier. With this slow cooker you don’t even need to hang around waiting for the food to get done. You can program the smart cooker and set the timer and leave it to cook and relax while it gets done.

VitaClay 2-in-1 Rice N' Slow Cooker, the 6 cup has a 3.2 Quart Capacity. It was $99.99 and is now at an offer of $79.99 where you save $20.00. 

The VitaClay Chef Gourmet Rice N' Slow Cooker Pro - 8 Cup has a 4.2 Quart Capacity and retails at a discount of $129.99 from $169.99 and you save $40.00. 

All the slow cookers have multi-program functions for savory stews, porridge, soups, fluffy rice, brown rice and sticky rice. It is easy to operate, and eliminates guesswork. They have delayed timers and goes automatically to warm when done. Visit http://vitaclaychef.com/ to check out these great smart cookers. These slow cookers have got great reviews from well known magazines like Good Housekeeping, Home World.etc. Visit http://vitaclaychef.com/testimonials to check out the glowing testimonials that this slow cooker has received. 

Three-Bean Salad with Quinoa adapted by VitaClay Chef

Serves 8


Summer green beans are here! Perhaps other beans, too, so substitute any of the three beans with what you can get on sale or from your garden...or the neighbors'. Canned garbanzos, pintos or black beans are fine, too, in this beautiful and delicious summer salad that works as a side dish or protein-filled vegetarian entree. Quinoa (KEEN-wah) is a light, whole grain with plenty of protein itself; once you try it, you'll invite it back to your table again and again. 


Ingredients
1 cup uncooked quinoa 
1 ½  cup water
Salt and ground black pepper 
1/2 pound green beans, trimmed, cut into 2-inch pieces, cooked and rinsed in cold water 
1 1/2 cups frozen shelled edamame, thawed 
1/2 cup chopped roasted red peppers 
1 (15-ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed and drained 
1/4 cup prepared Italian dressing 
1 teaspoon dried tarragon

Method
Add water and rinsed and drain quinoa into VitaClay pot. Set on regular rice cooking. About 30 minutes, when cooking completed automatically, open clay pot and stir quinoa and add a pinch of salt. Uncover and let cool. Put cooled quinoa, green beans, edamame, peppers, kidney beans, dressing, tarragon, salt and pepper into a large bowl and toss well. Serve chilled or at room temperature.


Nutrition
Per serving (about 9oz/244g-wt.): 270 calories (70 from fat), 8g total fat, 1g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 460mg sodium, 33g total carbohydrate (8g dietary fiber, 4g sugar), 17g protein

-Courtesy from Whole food Market

Super Summer Side Dishes - Classic Baked Beans adapted from WHOLE FOODS MARKET

Serves 6 to 8
Assembling baked beans from scratch is not hard, and the resulting delicious flavor makes it worth it. Beans can be assembled ahead of time and baked just before serving.


Ingredients
3 slices nitrate-free bacon, roughly chopped 
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 
1 large yellow onion, chopped 
1 to 2 tablespoons tomato paste 
1/2 cup light brown sugar 
2 tablespoons molasses 
1/2 to 1 teaspoon chipotle chile powder, more to taste 
1 teaspoon dry mustard 
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar 
3 (15-ounce) cans white beans, such as navy, rinsed and drained or 6 cups cooked white beans 
1 to 1 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth, plus more if needed 
Salt and pepper to taste

Method
Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until it starts to release its fat. Add olive oil and onions and cook until translucent and soft, 5 to 7 minutes. Stir in tomato paste, sugar, molasses, chile powder, mustard and vinegar until well combined and cook for 1 minute. Transfer ingredients from skillet into VitaClay cooker. Add beans, broth, salt, pepper and stir gently to combine. Set on Stew cooking for 40 to 50 minutes or until cooked. Serve hot.


Nutrition
Per serving (about 10oz/284g-wt.): 360 calories (70 from fat), 7g total fat, 2g saturated fat, 5mg cholesterol, 330mg sodium, 62g total carbohydrate (9g dietary fiber, 21g sugar), 15g protein


Courtesy from WHOLE FOOD MARKET http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/2086

Fragrant Vegetable Rice in a Slow Cooker

Ingredients
Basmati Rice – 1 cup
Oil – 3 table spoons
Ginger- garlic paste – 1 teaspoon
Mixed vegetables – 1 cup chopped
Cinnamon  – 2 inch stick
Bay leaf – 2
Cloves – 4
Turmeric powder – 1/4 teaspoon
Tomato – 1 chopped
Salt – as needed
Water – 1 1/2 cups
Chopped cilantro to garnish

Method
Heat oil in a sauce pan and saute the ginger-garlic paste. Add the spices and continue to saute for a few more minutes. Add vegetables, salt and rice, mix well. Transfer the vegetable-rice mixture to the VitaClay pot. Add water, cover with the clay pot lid. Shut the rice cooker and press the rice button on the panel. While cooking, periodically check to see whether there is enough water and the rice is done. Once cooked, garnish with cilantro and serve hot.

White Peas and Potato Curry

Ingredients
White peas or any other dried beans – 2 cups soaked overnight
Oil – 3 tablespoons
Red onion – 1 large chopped roughly
Garlic – 3 cloves minced
Ginger – 1/2 piece peeled
Garam Masala – 1/2 teaspoon
Turmeric powder – 1/4 teaspoon
Chilli powder – 1/2 teaspoon
Tomato – 1 chopped
Potato – 1 peeled and cut into chunks
Salt – as needed
Water – 3 cups
Cilantro for garnish

Directions
Rinse the soaked peas in cold water, drain and set aside. Heat oil in a sauce pan and fry the onions, garlic and ginger for about 2 minutes until the onions are soft. Cool and transfer to a blender and grind the onion mixture smooth. Place the onion paste in the pan again and stir fry for about 7 to 8 minutes until it turns brown. Add all the spices and tomato and continue to stir fry until the tomato is cooked through and well blended. Transfer the onion-tomato paste to the VitaClay pot, add the white peas, potato and water. Cover and turn on the stew function. Once the peas are cooked through, add salt and continue to cook for a few more minutes and keep warm until ready to serve. You can increase or decrease the water depending on how thick or thin you want the gravy to be.

VitaClay Cooker from vegetarianandvegannews.com

The VitaClay rice cooker is a good alternative to other rice cookers which come with a teflon coated pot. With the increase in the carcinogens in our environment, it is nice to finally have the option of cooking in an old-fashioned clay pot without giving up the convenience of an electric cooker.

The VitaClay rice cooker can also be used as a slow cooker to cook beans and stews. The control panel is easy to use and is pre-programmed to cook rice, stew and soup. You can also increase or decrease the cooking time depending on what you are cooking.

To test the VitaClay, we made two Indian vegan dishes. One was a white pea and potato curry and the other was a mixed vegetable rice. Both dishes turned out well.  To avoid ingesting the BPA from canned food, we used dried peas that were soaked overnight. After the initial prep work on the stove top, we used the stew function to cook the curry. At the end of the cooking time, the peas were buttery, fragrant and were neither over or undercooked. For the vegetable rice, we used the rice feature and again the rice was well cooked with each grain separate. After cooking, cleaning the clay pot was effortless and easy.

If you are in the market for a slow cooker or a rice cooker that does not contain harmful carcinogens like teflon, the VitaClay perfectly fits the bill.
 Here are the recipes for the Pea and potato curry and the Vegetable rice.

From http://www.vegetarianandvegannews.com/2011/06/13/fragrant-vegetable-rice-in-a-slow-cooker/ 

Get healthy with a little bit of help

A balanced diet is necessary to promote healthy living. Our food should contain nutrients that help us build and repair broken tissue. A healthy diet is one that includes a balanced mix of the right amount of foods from all food groups containing the nutrients the body needs. An adequate amount of water consumption is also necessary. The five main food groups that are needed in a nutrition rich diet are fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, fish and meat products.

The balance of nutrients depends on certain factors like your age, sex and general health. Some people are allergy prone and may have to avoid some kinds of food but they should substitute other foods rich in the same nutrients to make up. Skipping meals is not good for your healthy and neither is junk food. But due to long working hours, people end up skipping meals or ordering in. There is a simple and efficient solution to this and that is the VitaClay® Rice Cooker Chef, which is an easy way to make a healthy, wholesome meal in hardly any time at all. You can get all the ingredients into the slow cooker before you leave in the morning and there is hot food waiting at home for your kids when they come home after school and for you when you return from work. No one needs to go hungry or eat out.

You can check out the different models available at http://vitaclaychef.com/. You have a whole lot of delicious slow cooker recipes that you can try out in your smart cooker. Make change in your life. Get your VitaClay® Rice Cooker Chef and make wholesome healthy food for your family.

Clay pot cooking with modern computerized electronic technology

VitaClay Chef Slow Rice Cooker. It blends the ancient wisdom of clay pot cooking with modern computerized electronic technology to suit your fast paced lifestyle.  Imagine the gastronomic delight of digging into the melting tenderness of slow simmering creamy vegetable broth, savory stews or soft fluffy rice pulao cooked the grandmother’s way, i.e. with oodles of time and affection! Sheer sensuous pleasure minus the sinfulness as its natural non Teflon unglazed Chinese Zisha clay pot cooking needs little or no oil at all and locks the nutrients thus presenting healthy gourmet grandeurs. You can choose from a range of 2 in 1 Rice Cookers (8 and 6 cups), Chef Gourmet Rice N Slow Cooker (8 cups) and Smart Multi Cooker (6 cups). These cookers can be pre programmed to cook your food in your absence and can keep food warm up to 12 hours to present yummy wonders to titillate your taste buds after a hectic day. Fifty percent more energy smart and twice as faster than conventional cookers, VitaClay Chef retains the perfect flavor and food texture by a slow patient simmering boiling combination. Softening red unruly beans or stubborn brown rice is not tough anymore and cleaning does not involve cumbersome scrapping as food doesn’t stick to the surface and can be washed in a jiffy.  VitaClay has already captured the fancy of passionate yet busy cooks on the go who would present the healthiest and tastiest of meals to their families with a reign over time and liberating experience from kitchen confinement. You can order your VitaClay organic rice cooker at http://vitaclaychef.com/

Rustle up a gourmet dinner

So are you wondering how to rustle up a gourmet dinner with as little trouble as possible? Get the VitaClay organic rice and slow cooker. The beauty of this organic slow cooker is that you can put in the ingredients and cooks from 30 minutes to up to 12 hours without losing flavor or texture and will be ready to eat when you come home. Then all you have to do is pick up some ice cream and toss together a salad and you have a full meal ready for your guests when they arrive.

VitaClay® is made of natural, unglazed, highly prized Zisha clay that brings out true flavor and preserves vital nutrients. Free from Teflon, chemicals or heavy metals. VitaClay multicookers fuse traditional health with modern technology. These slow cookers offer pre-programmed options for brown and white rice as well as slow cooking options for stews and soups and give you the convenience of a slow cooker, the versatility of a rice cooker and steamer, and the health and taste benefits of clay. Visit http://vitaclaychef.com/recipes  for some recipes for your gourmet evening. You can order your VitaClay organic rice cooker at http://vitaclaychef.com/

An alternative to junk food

VitaClay slow cookers are very useful for conscientious parents who want to provide nutritious and wholesome meals for their children and want to avoid junk food but just don’t have the time to do it. It is an organic slow cooker and it comes in 6 cup and 8 cup sizes. It is a beautiful blend of the old and new, the old being that it is made of natural zisha clay which enhances the flavor of food cooked in it and the new being the technology that has been incorporated in these slow cookers to give you the option of pre programming.

Now you can fill up the VitaClay slow cooker with the ingredients in the morning before you leave to work and set it to cook slowly over the day so that it will be steaming hot and tasty for your children when they come home. Now you can be sure that your children are getting wholesome nutritious food whether you are home early or if you have to work late. Check out the different organic cookers available at http://vitaclaychef.com/ 

Cooking the right way

Cooking in a clay pot is actually one of the oldest ways of cooking. Usually the ingredients are all put into a single clay pot, seasoning are added and it is slow cooked over a fire for a long time. In some countries it is even kept on the fires overnight giving the ingredients time to imbue all the flavors. Luckily for us we neither need to build up a fire nor do we need to keep guard over a pot of stew for many hours. We now have the option of clay pot cooking with VitaClay Chef which is made of natural, unglazed, highly prized Zisha clay that enhances the flavor and preserves natural nutrients.

This organic clay cooker is free of added non-stick chemical glazes and you can rest assured that no chemicals or aluminum come in contact with your food. The VitaClay Chef Gourmet Rice N’ Slow Cooker Pro is totally convenient and fully programmable, thanks to innovative computerized clay heating technology. So you can put in your ingredients and set the timer and continue with other chores and when it is meal time, your meal is ready to be served.

Check out the VitaClay Chef Gourmet Rice N' Slow Cooker Pro, 8 Cup which can cook up to 16 cups of rice here. The VitaClay Chef Gourmet Rice N’ Slow Cooker Pro brings your food to a boil four times faster than any of conventional slow cookers. Click here to place your order. For more details you can also contact them at (408) 956-8668 or leave a message at http://vitaclaychef.com/contact-us

Lundberg's Basic Risotto recipe adapted by VitaClay chef

Risotto is actually an Italian cooking technique used for a native Italian rice, Arborio. This old world method involves stirring hot liquid little by little into the rice for about 20 minutes, which will create a dish unlike any other rice recipe you have tried. Risotto is prepared this way and served immediately to preserve the unique, gourmet texture of a very creamy sauce around al dente, pasta-like rice kernels. Never rinse this rice before cooking!

Cooking Instructions:

• 1 cup Lundberg^® California White Arborio
• 1 tbsp. Olive oil
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
• 2 cups hot stock (or water)
• 1/2 cup white California wine (optional)

Heat olive oil in a heavy 2-quart pot. Saute onion in oil until translucent. Add rice and stir rice until grains are coated with oil Add wine and stir constantly on medium heat until wine is absorbed. Transfer from the pot into VitaClay cooker. Add 2 cup hot stock or water, Set on STEW cooking for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, cooker will switch to WARM. Add and stir in cheeses and serve immediately. For variety add fresh herbs and chopped vegetables during the last 5 minutes of cooking.

Recreate delicious clay pot cooked meals

Clay cooking pots have been in use all over the world from ancient times in different shapes and sizes but the use that it is put to and the result produced remain the same. Moroccans use the tagine which has a conical lid, the Spanish have a lidless cazuela, a shallow open dish called a tian is used in Provence. Chicken bricks, potato or bean pots, garlic, tandoor pots and onion takers, pie dishes, souffle' dishes, glazed ceramic casseroles and Chinese sand pots are some of the other vessels of earthenware or stoneware that are used to bring out the flavors of the food cooked. 

Now that we live in a fast paced world where we don’t have time to use these ancient but proven cooking utensils, we have a great option with VitaClay’s great clay cookers to recreate delicious clay pot cooked meals at home. This easy to use organic cooker has a multi-program function for savory stews, porridge, soups, fluffy rice, brown rice and sticky rice. VitaClay clay cooker is easy to operate and has a delayed timer.

VitaClay has their offices located at Essenergy, Inc., 1765 Landess Ave., #34, Milpitas, CA 95035. You can order the cookers online. Just click here and they will be shipped to your door. You can visit their website at http://vitaclaychef.com/ to take a look at all their products. Call them at (408) 956-8668 for any questions you may have. Or you can leave a message at http://vitaclaychef.com/contact-us.

VitaClay® Smart Top Rated* Rice Cooker

Are you one of those people who enjoy eating rice? A pizza now and then is fine and so is a burger but a meal made of delicious rice and a side dish is all you want. Pressure cooked rice is not your ideal solution but you have no other choice since you need to make food quickly and efficiently. But if you could you would like your rice slow cooked in a clay pot as it should be. 

VitaClay understands that need and have come out with an excellent rice cooker that cooks fluffy, delicious rice that has the right flavor. The VitaClay® Smart Top Rated*Rice Cooker which allows slow cooking and incorporates computerized electronic technology! This Rice Cooker delivers the flavors you have always yearned for in a rice cooker. It is easy to use and works well with different types of rice and you can try out all your rice recipes.

You can visit their website at http://vitaclaychef.com/ where you can shop online for this wonderful, healthy answer to rice cooking. You can just click on the one you want and pop it in your cart and it will be delivered to your doorstep. Call (408) 956-8668 for more details. VitaClay Slow Cooker is also great for stews and soups and is the perfect way to get a whole gourmet meal on the table with as little trouble as possible.

A wholesome meal

Everyone wants to have healthy, wholesome food on the table for their family whether they are home makers or working parents. But there are a thousand things to attend to that usually there is just time to rustle together something hasty or order our, neither of which is a healthy long term solution. VitaClay has a solution to your problems. The VitaClay Chef that is a removable clay pot insert which is all natural and free of aluminum, Teflon, heavy metals and non-stick coatings.

The organic clay cooker steams food perfectly while preserving nutrients and flavors. The best part is you do not need to add extra oil or fat. This clay cooker is fully electronic and you can just put the ingredients in the cooker, set the timer and go about your other work. By the time it is time for dinner, everything is ready and all you have to do is call everyone in and serve up a delicious lunch or dinner.

VitaClay is great for making all kinds of meals. Visit http://vitaclaychef.com/ to see the different kinds of clay cookers available. You can check out http://vitaclaychef.com/recipes for some great recipes. VitaClay has an online page where you can order your cooker online. Click here to order. Call them at (408) 956-8668 to know more.