High-fiber winter garden salad: shredded cabbage, carrots, broccoli, raisins, and sunflower seeds tossed in a curried yogurt and chutney dressing. Crunchy, sweet, lightly spiced.
A classic New England-style steamed brown bread made with rye flour, cornmeal, graham flour, molasses, and raisins. No oven needed. Just mix, fill the cans, and steam for two hours.
Cuban-style chicken picadillo with tomato sauce, white wine, cumin, capers, raisins, and green olives. Serve over white rice with fried plantains for the full island experience.
Store in closed container in refrigerator for up to 6 weeks.
Singing cake, a heritage spice-and-chocolate Bundt loaded with raisins, nuts, strawberry jam, and unsweetened chocolate, in a buttermilk batter lifted by whipped egg whites. Named for the hissing sound it makes baking.
Spiced devil's food bundt cake studded with brandy-soaked dates, raisins, and chopped filberts, all baked in the microwave and topped with tangy cream cheese frosting. Ready in under an hour.
Overnight whole grain cereal uses a boil-and-rest method to soften wheat berries with raisins. No stovetop simmering, no slow cooker, just a thermos or covered pot and wake up to breakfast.
Mock mincemeat without any meat, made with raisins, molasses, brown sugar, brandy, cracker crumbs, and warm spices. A vegetarian filling for holiday pies.
A warmly spiced bread machine loaf loaded with canned pumpkin, yogurt, wheat germ, chopped pecans, and raisins. Set it, walk away, and come back to a house that smells like fall.
Old-fashioned honey drop cookies with cinnamon, cloves, and raisins. No refined sugar at all. Soft, chewy, and warmly spiced with a caramel-like sweetness.
Golden, buttery scones studded with raisins or blueberries, baked to a crisp top and tender center. A bakery-scale recipe that scales down easily for home baking.
This is my favorite way of making them, by mixing all kind of dry fruit, seeds, oats with peanut butter and honey. It can be a quick snack, delicious dessert, or even a present in a jar!
This carrot cake well satisfied my sweet tooth without making me feel guilty. Whole wheat flour and wheat germ provided the cake with some good fibre, by replacing half amount of oil with yogurt reduced the calorie and fat, and eliminating the frosting all-together made the cake much less rich and calorie-dense. But overall it was a very moist and delicious cake indeed.
Spiced apple roly-poly rolls with pecans, raisins, and pumpkin pie spice baked in apple syrup. Dusted with powdered sugar and drizzled with warm fudge sauce.
Bombay nut and raisin mix tossed in garlic butter with curry, chili, and Worcestershire. A skillet-toasted snack of almonds, pine nuts, cashews, and pretzels finished with a sweet kick of raisins.
Greek-style charoset with whole orange, dates, raisins, cherry preserves, sweet wine, and pine nuts. A Sephardic Passover recipe with warm spice and fruit.