http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/13942445/take-the-eat-game-live-reaper-of-recipes-challenge-4-29-2014
My approach for this competition was a little backwards, I wanted to come up with a dish that would be representative of the Diablo franchise. Hindsight is 20/20 and I think I might have fared better if I had chosen a dish and made it more Diablo-esque.
So in the end I went for a Mapo-Tofu dish and called it "The Arreat Crater". Herein I'll detail the process involved in making my contest creation.
Core of Arreat:
Vegetarian mapo tofu with volcano rice
Ingredients
1 cup of Volcano rice
1 pack of silken extra soft tofu
1 tablespoon of Mapo Tofu sauce (Super lucky brand works)
1 tsp of Szechuan peppercorns
2 scallions
3 large cloves of garlic
½ Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Yields 4 servings
Preparation and Time to cook ~30 minutes
Directions
Preparation:
1.)
Start cooking the volcano rice, the directions
suggest that for 1 cup of rice, you boil 1 ¾ cup of water with a pinch of salt
with the 1 cup of rice. Once it comes to
a boil, reduce to simmer and cover for 30 minutes.
2.)
While the rice is simmering, we can begin the
preparation of the other part. Slice the scallions and chop up the garlic
cloves.
3.)
Slice the tofu into cubes as best as possible.
Cooking the Molten Core:
4.)
Put olive oil into a non-stick pan and turn the
stove onto medium heat.
5.)
Add in the scallions and garlic cloves and
Szechuan peppercorns, let them cook for a little bit.
6.)
Once they have browned a little bit, add in the
chopped tofu and mix in the Mapo Tofu Sauce. I find it best to slice in the
tofu. The tofu will break up due to its
extra soft nature.
7.)
Let the contents simmer until the contents reach
a gentle boil, and then keep on low heat while further preparing the rice.
Preparing the Arreat Crater:
8.)
By now the rice should be complete. Pack rice into a small bowl and press it in
there firmly to make sure the rice will make a dome shape when flipped
over.
9.)
Flip the rice over onto the center of a
plate. The easiest way to do this is to
put the plate on top of the bowl of rice, and then flip it over, to avoid an
awkward rice throwing matter.
10.) Take
the bottom of a glass and press in the middle of the dome of rice to create a
dimple or the “Arreat Crater” if you will.
11.) Pour the cooked tofu mixture into the center
of the dimple and if all is well and done, then congratulations are in order
since you’ve just completed the Arreat Crater.
At present, I'm awaiting to hear from EatGameLive as to whether my entry has placed in the contest, but in the meantime if you're interested in checking out other Blizzard related food items check out her blog at the following link....
http://eatgamelive.com/
