Recipes
There is a great range of dishes you can make in the Sun Oven. Certainly, anything you can make in a crock pot, you can make in the Sun Oven, but you can make a whole lot of other types of dishes too. Here are a few tried and true recipes. If you have any you'd like to add, let us know!
Mesquite Almond Cookies (These were a huge hit at our booth at the recent Green Festival in Tucson. If you can't find mesquite meal at your local store, there are plenty of places to buy it online.)
- 1 C. butter
- 1/2 C. each brown and white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 2 C. unbleached white flour
- 1/2 C. whole wheat flour
- 1/2 C. mesquite meal
- 1 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1 C. sliced almonds
In a medium bowl, cream butter and eggs. Blend in eggs an vanilla. Mix in
flour, mesquite meal and soda. Stir in almonds. Drop by teaspoonfuls on
ungreased baking sheets. Bake 10-15 minutes in pre-heated oven (about 300
degrees or higher if possible). Makes 3 to 3 1/2 dozen cookies.