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Saturday, 27 August 2016
Chicken Chancao
Receta en Español
Chicken chancao is a typical dish from Tarija, a region at the south of Bolivia, limiting south with Argentina and Paraguay.
Chicken chancao is a typical dish from Tarija, a region at the south of Bolivia, limiting south with Argentina and Paraguay.
Ingredients (2 people):
- 1 piece of chicken per person.
- 2 medium onions.
- 2 carrots cut into strips.
- 3 sprigs of parseley.
- 2 whole gloves of garlic.
- Salt.
- 65 grams of Green peas.
- 1 potato per person.
- ají paste to taste.
- 4 tomatos finely chopped.
- 1 lettuce leaf per person.
- 1 boiled egg per person.
- Water.
Method:
1- Put in a big saucepan meat, onion cut in pieces, carrot cut in stripes, parsley, garlic and salt. Add water until meat is completly covered. Cook for 40 minutes or until meat is done.
2- Take a smaller saucepan, pour some spoonful of the chicken broth and add Green peas, cook for 10 or 15 minutes.
3- Put aside the Green peas and use the same saucepan to cook potatos and eggs. Cook them until potatos are soft.
4- Peel tomatos; the easiest way to do it is drawing a circumference on the surface of the tomato with the help of a knife. Boil water in a saucepan, once reached boiling point, bath tomatos in the boiling water during 20 seconds, use a skimmer to take them out of the water. Let tomatos get cold and you will see how easy they can be peeled!.
5- Cut the remaining onion in little pieces and saute it in a saucepan, until it gets brown.
6- Cut tomato into little pieces, add it to the onion, add salt.
Let it cook for half an hour at medium heat. It is not a tomato sauce, just the pieces of tomato well done will be the side dish.
3- Put aside the Green peas and use the same saucepan to cook potatos and eggs. Cook them until potatos are soft.
4- Peel tomatos; the easiest way to do it is drawing a circumference on the surface of the tomato with the help of a knife. Boil water in a saucepan, once reached boiling point, bath tomatos in the boiling water during 20 seconds, use a skimmer to take them out of the water. Let tomatos get cold and you will see how easy they can be peeled!.
5- Cut the remaining onion in little pieces and saute it in a saucepan, until it gets brown.
6- Cut tomato into little pieces, add it to the onion, add salt.
Let it cook for half an hour at medium heat. It is not a tomato sauce, just the pieces of tomato well done will be the side dish.
7- Serve this putting in every dish the following: 1 lettuce leaf, 1 boiled egg cut into slices, 1 peeled whole potato, 1 piece of chicken. Pour a spoonfull of Green peas over the chicken, and he 'sauce' of tomato and onion. Add some aji paste to the chicken.
It will be spicy so be carefull!.
You can do this récipe with the remaining chicken broth: Con el caldo del pollo que te ha sobrado puedes hacer esta receta: Quinoa soup.
My comments to the Recipe
Tomato and aji paste are a good accompaniment to the chicken.
This is a healthy dish, you should be carefull with aji!!.
This is a healthy dish, you should be carefull with aji!!.
Where you can buy the ingredients
Aji can be bought at latin products stores.
I bought it in Madrid at Quintana underground: Hermanos Machado 24 , at the corner with Calle Collados.
Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:
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Thursday, 18 August 2016
Quinoa soup
Receta en Español
Quinoa is a seed from a weed native to the Andes Mountains of Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
It is a highly nutritious food , it has been eaten for 5000 years by people living in that area.
Incas named this seed 'God's food', it provides more minerals, and vitamins that any other cereal.
This seed is used as an important ingredient in many soups.
The recipe I present today is from 'La Paz' , Bolivia.
Quinoa is a seed from a weed native to the Andes Mountains of Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
It is a highly nutritious food , it has been eaten for 5000 years by people living in that area.
Incas named this seed 'God's food', it provides more minerals, and vitamins that any other cereal.
This seed is used as an important ingredient in many soups.
The recipe I present today is from 'La Paz' , Bolivia.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 Kg chicken or beef.
- 100 grams Quinoa.
- 40 grams Green peas.
- 40 grams broad beans.
- 2 carrots.
- 1 potato.
- Salt and grinded cumin to taste.
- 1 onion.
- 2 cloves of garlic.
- 2 spoons of chooped parsley.
Method:
1- First of all quinoa should be cleaned. Spread it on a dish and remove all the little stones, you can see in the picture what this stones look like (they are grey or black).
The coating of the seed conteins saponins, which are toxic and provide a bitter taste to the quinoa. So that quinoa should be well rinsed before being cooked.
Put quinoa in a strainer and pour wáter over it until you see water is clear, stir it from time to time to help the coating of the seeds go away.
The coating of the seed conteins saponins, which are toxic and provide a bitter taste to the quinoa. So that quinoa should be well rinsed before being cooked.
Put quinoa in a strainer and pour wáter over it until you see water is clear, stir it from time to time to help the coating of the seeds go away.
2- Put in a saucepan meat, chopped onion, carrots cut in strips, garlic and salt.
Add water and boil for 40 minutes or until meat is cooked.
I cooked 1 Kg chicken because I used it later for another recipe.
3- Once meat is cooked, add broad beans, green peas and cumin.
Take out the meat and reserve what we are not using for this recipe, cut the rest of the meat into little pieces and add it again to the saucepan.
Now is time to add quinoa to the saucepan.
4- Wash potato , put it in another saucepan with water and salt, boil it until potato is soft when you prick it.
5- Once quinoa is open, add to the saucepan the cooked, peeled and cut in pieces potato .
6- Cook for a few minutes and it is ready!
Sprinkle parsley and serve!.
Comments to the Recipe
Quinoa has a good taste, this makes this a delicious soup, besides it provides a lot of minerals, and vitamins given by the quinoa.
Where you can buy quinoa
Quinoa is easy to find at latin products stores or at biostores.
Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:
Friday, 29 July 2016
Muamba de Galinha (Angola)
Receta en Español
Recette en Français
Recette en Français
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| Muamba de Galinha |
Muamba de Galinha is a traditional dish in Angola, it is related to the Poulet moambe the Congo River region.
Muamba de Galinha is made with chicken, onion, palm oil or muamba of dendem, garlic, okra and a type of Angolan chilli called gindungo. (I Will substitute it for chilli peppers).
Ingredients:
- A chicken, cut into serving pieces.
- Juice of one lemon (optional).
- One cup (100 ml) of red palm oil (or a mixture of palm oil and other cooking oil).
- 2 or 3 chopped onions.
- Two cloves of garlic chopped.
- A chilli pepper (or guindungo) removed entirely after cooking for a slightly spicy dish, or cut without the seeds for a spicy dish.
- 3 tomatoes (peeled if desired) cut into quarters.
- One or two dozen Okra , washed and with the ends cut. We can use them whole, cut lengthwise in half or into pieces depending on the effect we want to give to the dish. Okra makes a gelatinous dish,the more cut into pieces the greater is the gelatinous effect.I decided to cut them lengthwise in half (see picture below).
- Salt to taste.
Where to buy the ingredients:
The hardest to find are the okra and palm oil.I bought both in Lavapies, near the metro in Miguel Servet Street where you can find multicultural food stores.
Here you have one link to buy on the internet:
Method:
- If you want ,you can marinate the chicken, you should rub the chicken with a mixture of lemon juice, garlic, chillies and salt. We leave it like that for one hour (we can leave for 15 minutes to one hour, as we prefer).
2. We put the palm oil in a large pot and place it over medium heat, then we add the chicken and cook it just a little without allowing it to be done.
3. Next add the onion, garlic, chilli, tomato and salt. After five minutes pour water to cover the chicken.
4. Stir occasionally and cook over medium heat for one hour, until chicken is almost done.
5. Add the pumpkin and a little water if you see that there is little into the pot, cook until chicken is completely done.
6. Now is time to add the okra, stir, and cook for another 10 or 15 minutes until the okra is tender.
The most traditional accompaniment to Muamba de Galinha is Funge that can be made with corn or cassava flour.
You can also serve it with rice instead of Funge.
My comments to the recipe:
I must confess that I was afraid for the outcome of the recipe, I had not tried palm oil until now. Palm oil has a strong test to which we are not use in Europe, but I must say that mixed with pumpkin and okra is quite enjoyable to eat.
I can say that I enjoyed trying this dish which allowed me to experiment a new taste from the point of wiew of a European palate.
Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:
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Friday, 22 July 2016
Thursday, 21 July 2016
Saturday, 16 July 2016
Date and banana Mix (Burundi)
Receta en Español
Date and Banana mix is a cake made using two ingredients very common in Burundi; banana and dates.
Date and Banana mix is a cake made using two ingredients very common in Burundi; banana and dates.
Sweets are not commonly consumed in Burundi, but I have found references to this dessert in several web pages, this one among them:http://www.zeraction.com/2015/08/burundian-cuisine-recipes-of-beans-dishes.html , I suppose that they make it only in special occasions.
It is delicious and very easy to cook, I encourage you to try it!.
Ingredients (for a 17x25 cm recipient):
- 250 grams butter.
- 25 grams butter for the final topping.
- 200 grams powdered sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- 500 grams flour.
- 1 package baking powder.
- Salt.
- 4 Bananas.
- 250 grams dates.
- 2 spoons powdered sugar.
- 1 spoon cinnamon.
- 250 grams butter.
- 25 grams butter for the final topping.
- 200 grams powdered sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- 500 grams flour.
- 1 package baking powder.
- Salt.
- 4 Bananas.
- 250 grams dates.
- 2 spoons powdered sugar.
- 1 spoon cinnamon.
Method:
1- If you don't have powdered sugar you can use normal sugar and grind it using a coffee grinder.
2- Put 250 grams of butter in a bowl, once the butter is at room temperature cream it together with 200 grams of powdered sugar until the mix is light and fluffy.
3- Add eggs one after the other , beat them and mix well.
4- Add flour, salt and baking powder; mix well until you get an homogeneous mixture.
5- Take an ovenproof mould of 17x25 cm, line it with parchment paper. Put inside the mould half of the mixture and spread it well.
6- Cut bananas into slices , bananas should be in an optimal state of maturation, nor green nor brown.
Spread the banana slices all over the mixture.
7- Remove pits from dates then cut the meat into little pieces, spread the pieces of dates all over the bananas.
8- Cover with the other half of the mixture, spread it well using a spatule. Leave the Surface of the cake flat.
9- Preheat the oven at 180 ºC, cook the cake for 30 minutes at the same temperature over/under heating.
10- Rigth after taking the cake out of the oven we pour over the surface 25 grams of melted butter. We do it with the help of a cooking brush.
That's the result:
Dates mixed with bananas are a delicious combination, this cake has a marvellous taste. It is pretty easy to make! , you should try and taste it.
Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:
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