September 2025 - Cooking with Rum

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Cooking with Rum

        Chicken With Creamed Rum Sauce

Ingredients:

  • 1 lb. Boneless Skinless Chicken
  • ¼ C. All Purpose Flour
  • 1 Tbsp. Garlic Salt
  • 2 Tbsp. Olive Oil
  • 1 Tbsp. Garlic, chopped 
  • ½ C. White Onion, chopped
  • 1 Tbsp. Dried Parsley
  • 1 tsp. Red Pepper Flakes
  • Sea Salt and Ground Black Pepper, to taste
  • 1½ oz. Dark Rum
  • ¼ C. Half-and-Half 
  • 1 tsp. Orange Extract

Directions:

  1. Cut chicken into bite sized pieces.
  2. Mix garlic salt with flour and coat chicken pieces lightly, shake off extra flour from chicken if needed.
  3. Set a wide pan on medium-high heat and add olive oil. Once the oil is hot add chicken pieces and fry until browned.
  4. Add the onions and garlic and cook until softened then add the remaining seasonings and deglaze pan with rum.
  5. Stir in half-and-half and orange extract to make sauce. Once the sauce begins to boil, remove from heat and ready to serve.  

Goes great over rice or noodles. Enjoy!

                          Rummy Apple Crisp

Ingredients:

  • 8 C. Sliced Apples, ½ inch slices (I recommend using a combination of Braeburn and Fuji apples)
  • 1 tsp. Cinnamon Sugar
  • 1 tsp. Lemon Zest
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
  • 2 oz. Dark Rum
  • 1 oz. Orange Liqueur
  • 2 Tbsp. Grandma’s Original Molasses

Ingredients For the Crumb Topping:

  • 1 C. Granulated Sugar
  • ½ C. Light Brown Sugar
  • ½ C. All-Purpose Flour, sifted
  • ½ tsp. Salt
  • 6 Tbsp. Salted Butter, softened
  • ¾ tsp. Ground Nutmeg
  • ¾ C. Oatmeal
  • 1 C. Walnuts, toasted and chopped Vanilla Ice Cream and Caramel Sauce, for topping 

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F degrees.
  2. Arrange apple slices in a greased deep dish pie plate or large baking dish.
  3. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar, lemon zest, vanilla extract, dark rum and orange liqueur on top of apples then drizzle molasses over apples.
  4. In a separate bowl, mix both sugars, flour, salt, butter, and nutmeg with a pastry blender or in a food processor until crumbly; add the oatmeal and chopped walnuts and mix thoroughly.  Spread mixture over top of apples.
  5. Bake uncovered at 350°F degrees until apples are tender and top is lightly browned, approximately 1 hour.
  6. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream and drizzle caramel sauce on top of the ice cream