Yucca Pudding

                                                                               Receta en Español

Yucca pudding is very popular in the Oceania Islands, you can find an example on my post for Fiji islands here:  Yucca and Banana cake. 

The recipe I present today is made with sweet potato, there is not sugar, the sweet flavour comes only from the potato.

You can imagine that it is not enough sweet , at Solomon islands there is no culture for sweets, this is closest to a dessert that you can find in this country.

Ingredients:

•   800 grams Yuca.
•   500 grams sweet potato.
•   400 ml coconut milk.

   

Method:

1-   Peel and cut yucca into pieces. Cut each piece in half and get rid of the root that goes through the inner side.

2-   Now you should grate yucca ,I decided to use a cook processor to grind it , you should grate it to a very small point so the dough forms easier.

3-   Now put the yucca in a sieve and smash it, this way a liquid will fall into the pot that is under the siever. 

4-   Now put the yucca in other pot and let the liquid stand for half an hour.

5- Now get rid of the liquid (dark substance in the picture below) because it has some noxious composition. As you see in the picture below, under the liquid there is a white and sticky substance, this is the starch, you should take it and mix it with the rest of the yucca.

6- Peel sweet potatoes and cut into little pieces, grate or grind with a food processor, mix together with the yucca.

7- Add coconut milk and knead until you get the consistency of a dough.

8- Line an oven-proof recipient with parchment paper, put the mixture inside.

9- Preheat oven at 180 º Celsius , heat up and down.

Then cook in oven at the same temperature for 30 minutes or until you poke the cake with a knife and you take it out clean:

To serve cut it into little pieces, it is a dessert by its own but you can use it to accompany fish , the combination of flavours is delicious.





Solomon Islands

Rice Solomon Islands style

                                                                               Receta en Español

It is difficult to find recipes from The Solomon islands, I came up with this dish watching pictures from people that have lived there  and post pictures of what they eat on the internet.
I have observed that this dish is the most popular, Rice in soya sauce with vegetables accompanied by fish.

To cook in Europe with similar fish from the kind of fishes they consume, we can use red bream or red snapper.

This recipe shows the influence of the european and asian gastronomies in the Solomon islands.
It is a juicy rice thanks to de soya and vegetables.





Ingredients:

•   1 green pepper.
•   1 spring onion.
•   1/2 eggplant.
•   1 tomato.
•   Soya sauce.
•   Salt.
•   1 cup of rice.
•   2 cups of water.
•   1 lime.

   

Method:

1-   Cut pepper and onion into stripes.

2-   Sautée  onion and pepper in a casserole with some oil for 3 minutes on a high heat.

3-   Cut tomato and eggplant.

4-   Add eggplant and tomato to the casserole, cook for 10 minutes.

5-   Pour some soya sauce, rice and water. Put on a high heat until it reaches boiling point, then turn it to a low heat and cook for 20 minutes.

6-   After the 20 minutes , turn off the heat and let it stand covered with a cloth.

7- Now it is time to cook the fish, salt both sides of the fish, put some oil in a recipient for oven. Put the fish into this recipient. Make 3 cuts on the fish and place 3 lime slices into each of them.

8- Preheat oven at 175 ºC, cook in oven at the same temperature for 30 minutes.

9- Serve a piece of fish accompanied by rice.



Solomon Islands