Vodka Cranberry

Ingredients: Serves 1

2oz Vodka

6oz of cranberry juice

Lime wedge, for garnish

Light-up ice cubes

Instructions:

Fill your glass with ice. Add your vodka and cranberry juice and stir. I recommend trying it and adding an additional ounce or two of cranberry juice if you prefer a sweeter cocktail. Then add a lime wedge to the rim of the glass by cutting a small slit into the center of the lime so it stays upright. Lastly, drop two or three light-up ice cubes in your drink. When they are submerged in the liquid, they start flashing. It’s a super fun way to experience the opening battle scene!

Deep-fried deviled eggs

Ingredients- Makes 12 deviled eggs

8 eggs, 6 hard-boiled and two beaten

½ cup of flour

1 cup of panko

1 ½ tbsp of all-purpose seasoning, I like adobo

Frying oil, I like to use avocado oil

Ingredients for filling:

6 hard-boiled egg yolks

2 ½ tbsp of mayo

2 tsp of pickle juice

1 tsp of sugar

1 tsp of yellow mustard

Salt and pepper, to taste

Bacon bits for topping

Instructions:

Hard boil eggs– Fill a medium pot halfway full with water and bring to a boil. Once boiling, add your 6 eggs to the pot. I like to use a large spoon and gently/ slowly submerge each egg one by one so it doesn’t get shocked by the hot water and crack. Cook your eggs in boiling water for 11-12 minutes. Do not cook longer or your yolks will start turning green. Take your cooked eggs out on the pot with the same spoon and place in a bowl. Let the bowl sit in the refrigerator for about an hour to cool off.

Filling– Once your hard-boiled eggs are cooled, gently peel the shell. I find it’s easy to peel the shell by gently rolling the egg on your countertop until there are cracks all over the egg. You can then start peeling from the fatter end of the egg because that is usually where there is empty space. Once peeled, rinse your eggs to remove any small pieces of shell. Cut each egg in half.

In a medium bowl, add all your egg yolks, mayo, pickle juice, sugar, yellow muster, and salt and pepper to taste. With a hand mixer, blend all ingredients until smooth. Make sure to taste it and adjust the seasoning to your preferred taste. Store in the refrigerator until you are ready to pipe the eggs.

Deep-frying– You’ll need three bowls for each step of battering the eggs before frying. In one bowl, add your flour. In another bowl, add two raw eggs and beat them as if you were making scrambled eggs. In the last bowl, add your panko and all-purpose seasoning. Mix to combine the seasoning with the panko.

First dip your halved egg in the flour and make sure it’s coated everywhere. Then dip your egg in your beaten eggs. Then generously coat your egg in the panko mixture. Repeat until all 12 of your eggs are coated. Add your frying oil to a medium pot. You want there to be about half an inch to an inch of oil. Bring your oil to just below a simmer. Carefully add a few eggs to your hot oil and let it cook for about 1-2 minutes or until the panko turns a golden brown. If your oil does not cover your whole egg, make sure to flip your eggs so they get cooked on the top as well. Once cooked, remove your eggs and place them on a paper towel-lined plate so the extra oil gets absorbed. Repeat the frying process until all 12 eggs are deep fried.

Assemble– Add your filling to a piping bag or you can use a sandwich bag and cut a hole on the corner to create a piping effect. The sandwich bag method can get messy but it’s an affordable way to fill your eggs. If you do want to use the piping kit I like to use, click here for the link.

Pipe each egg and top with bacon bits. You can buy bacon bits but I prefer to cook two strips and then chop them up for a fresher garnish.

*Because this is a fried dish, it’s best served fresh. You can do all the prep work beforehand, like coating the eggs and making the filling, but I recommend actually frying them as the last thing you do before starting the film. The good thing is this dish comes up close to the beginning of the film so it can sit out on your counter until it’s time to serve.

Bantha Steak Dinner and Blue Milk

I wanted to recreate the futuristic almost sterile look to the white table setting during the meal they share at the Lars’ house. To accomplish this, I used part of a bento salad box I already owned. Here is the link!

I chose food that would most likely be eaten on Tatooine. Steak or in the Star Wars universe “Bantha Steak”, roasted zucchini, and potatoes.

Bantha Steak

Ingredients-

Filet Mignon (or your choice of cut)

Steak seasoning

1-2 tbsp of Butter or Bacon Grease (I used the leftover bacon grease from the breakfast scene)

Instructions-

1. Prepare your steak by tenderizing both sides with a meat mallet or the back of your chef’s knife. This makes it super tender instead of tough and chewy.
2. Next, generously coat your steak with your favorite steak seasoning.
3. Melt your butter or bacon grease in a pan, and cook your steak for a few minutes on each side until it’s nicely seared. If you like your steak more well done, you can finish it off in the oven at 350 degrees F for a few minutes.
4. Remove your steak from the pan and let it rest on your cutting board before cutting it.

Roasted Zucchini

Wash and chop one zucchini and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Drizzle olive oil on the chopped zucchini and sprinkle the same steak seasoning you used for your steak. Give it a good mix and cook in the oven at 400 degrees F for about 10-15 minutes.

Chimichurri Sauce

Ingredients:

¼ cup olive oil

¼ cup finely chopped parsley

3 cloves of minced garlic

2 tbsp red wine vinegar

1 tbsp small pieces of chopped red pepper

1 tsp black pepper

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp oregano

¼ tsp red pepper flack (optional for spice)

Instructions:

There are two ways you can serve this chimichurri. Add all ingredients to a small bowl, mix, and serve. I like to blend all the ingredients and make it into a sauce.

Chimichurri Potatoes

This can work with multiple types of potato cooking methods. I personally boiled my potatoes but roasting, or frying would taste great too! I used russet potatoes because they are very affordable but Yukon gold potatoes is what I would recommend using if you want to spend a little extra. I cut up my potatoes to be about 1 inch and boiled them in a pot of water until they were tender. Then, drain the water, add a few spoonfuls of your chimichurri sauce, and toss to combine.

*The food for this dish can all be made ahead of time and reheated before serving.

Blue Milk

This was a must to serve as it’s a classic in the Star Wars universe! To make this, I combined the following ingredients:

4 oz of coconut cream liqueur

2 oz of vodka

A dash of blue curacao

This makes one martini so multiply the ingredients depending on how many people you are serving. If you don’t like coconut, you can pick a different cream base for your blue milk. The important thing is that it’s a white cream base so when mixed with the blue, it makes that light blue color from the film. *This is great to make in advance to save time. You can make it in a cup with a lid (I used an old protein blender bottle) and then store it in the fridge so it gets nice and cold. Then you just have to pour it into your martini glass before serving.

RIP to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru… Anyway, I live in a little apartment so I can’t smoke my own ribs. I ended up ordering from a local BBQ joint. If you want to make your own ribs though and you also do not own a smoker, I absolutely LOVE Tini’s Oven Baked Ribs. She shows you how to make a BBQ sauce as well but to save time I usually use a store-bought sauce. Here is a link to her video showing how she makes it. Tini’s Oven Baked BBQ Ribs

For this cocktail, I used a recipe by Jennifer Landa. I liked that she used raspberries as a fun nod to the props team on the Star Wars set who used raspberries in place of blood during the Cantina scene. Here is the link to her video.

I bought frozen red bean buns from the local Asian market and it was incredible! If you go this route I definitely recommend buying from an authentic brand and not an Americanized version. You can tell the difference in flavor and texture of the bun, in my opinion. You can also buy this from a local bakery to save time as they are usually affordable. If you do want to make it fresh, here is a good recipe! It is a process though so make sure you have enough time allotted for this.

To make the iconic Leia bun shape, I used cocktail picks to hold the buns in place. Here is a link to the ones I use.

I chose to serve Jjajangmyeon, a Korean black bean noodle dish, for the scene where they are stuck in the trash compactor with the Dianoga because the darker color and chunks of pork belly and beans match the water from the scene. Plus it’s delicious!

To make the Dianoga, I used the Amylu chicken meatballs and a slice of a stuffed olive as the eye. I dipped the meatball in the sauce and used that to make the olive stick to the meatball. To make the meatball stand up, I used cocktail picks and anchored it with another meatball underneath the noodles. I then draped noodles on top of the Dianoga.

I ordered this Jjajangmyeon from a local Korean restaurant but it you would like to make it yourself, here is a recipe. You can also do spaghetti and meatballs too if you want something simpler.

Ingredients: Serves 1

2 oz vodka

1 oz Triple Sec

½ oz lime juice

Lime wedge for garnish

Instructions:

This is a good one to make ahead of time to save time. I added all the ingredients to a mason jar. Shook it well and then stored it in the refrigerator. When it was time to serve, it was nice and cold from sitting in the fridge overnight. I poured it into the shot glasses, added the lime wedge as a garnish and served.

The best tip I can give is to make sure your chocolate mold is at room temperature before serving. Mine was too cold and even though the raspberry syrup was boiling hot, the chocolate would not melt. I had to use “The Force” to break the chocolate mold. LOL!

Brownie recipe

First, in a large bowl, mix your wet ingredients then set aside.

Wet ingredients:

1 stick (½ cup) unsalted butter melted 

1/2 cup of avocado oil

3 large eggs

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Then in a medium sized bowl, mix your dry ingredients.

Dry ingredients:

1 cup cocoa powder

1 cup all-purpose flour

8 ounces of milk chocolate chips

1/2 teaspoon of salt

Next, slowly add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients while stirring continuously. 

Once the mixture is evenly combined, add 8 oz of melted, milk chocolate chips and mix. This makes the brownies EXTRA chewy!

In an oiled 9X9 pan, pour the batter and cook at 350° F for about 25 minutes or until you can insert a toothpick and it comes out mostly clean.

Melting the chocolate- You’ll need ½ tbsp of coconut or vegetable oil and about 6oz of white chocolate chips. If you can melt the chocolate in a double boiler, use this method. Or use the microwave method. In a microwave-safe container, add the white chocolate chips and oil. Microwave for 15 seconds and then remove and stir. Then, keep microwaving in 10 second increments, removing from the microwave in between to stir. Chocolate burns very easily so it’s important to only expose it to the heat of a microwave briefly while stirring often.

Chocolate mold– This is the chocolate mold I used.

Here is a very informative video on how to make the chocolate spheres. Tip: If it doesn’t lift out of the mold easily, try popping it in the freezer for a few minutes. Sometimes it just needs to be colder to work.

Raspberry Syrup–

Ingredients:

½ cup raspberries

½ cup sugar

½ cup water (If you want a thicker syrup, only add ¼ cup of water)

Instructions:

Add all your ingredients to a small sauce pot and bring to a simmer. Mix often. Once the sugar is completely dissolved (takes a few minutes), blend the mixture. You can then strain it to make a smooth syrup or keep as is if you don’t mind any pulp or seeds. I personally don’t mind so I didn’t strain. *You can make this ahead and store it in the refrigerator. Then in a microwave-safe container, heat it up before serving. It needs to be very hot to melt the chocolate.