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