Banana Rice Beans

Source: Mike G., Richmond, Va.

Honorable Mention of Food Freedom Recipe Contest

Teriyaki marinade with pineapple
Water
Brown sugar
Honey
3 cloves garlic
Salt and pepper
Ground cloves
Frank’s Red Hot Creole Seasoning

Sauce:

Combine water, honey, spices and brown sugar. Simmer over medium to high heat, then add garlic, teriyaki, Frank’s and spices. Simmer until it smells good.

Chicken tenderloins
2 cans black beans
Ground cloves
Salt and pepper
Creole seasoning
Honey
½ stick butter

Chicken:

Cube the chicken and then sauté it with honey, spices and butter. Once chicken is cooked, add cleaned beans and cook until hot.

1 cup rice
Cilantro
Salt and pepper

Rice:

Add rice to ½ cup water. Add cilantro to water and boil until cooked.

½ stick butter
2 bananas
Flour
White sugar
Honey
Egg
Salt

Bananas:

Melt butter and mix with egg and honey in a bowl. Mix flour, sugar and salt in another bowl. Cut bananas into ½ inch pieces and stick in egg, then coat in flour. Fry to brown and set aside.

To serve: First rice, then chicken, then bananas and top with sauce.

Note: Mike came up with this recipe during a game he and his fiancée play, where she picks out three ingredients (bananas, rice, black beans) and he has to make a delicious recipe using those three ingredients, plus whatever else is in the kitchen.