Travelling Kitchen: October 2023

Aborrajado is a typical Colombian dessert , original from the Cauca Valley.

This dessert has received the influence from the african gastronomy.

It was the XIX century when african slaves started to use smashed plantain as a wrapping for the food , they started to wrap pork meat, this is known today in Cali as 'Marranitas'.

It was in the Cauca Valley where they started to fill the plantain with farmer cheese and bathed it in a mixture of flour and egg to fry them after that.

Today they add guava paste to the filling as well.

You can use mozzarella cheese or a type of cheese that melts well.

aborrajado can be eaten accompanied by milk, like a side dish or tapa.

The key point is to use ripe plantain (those who have almost black skin), these plantains are the sweetest.

Ingredients:

- 2 ripe plantains.
- 200 grams mozzarella cheese.
- 200 grams guava paste.
- 6 tablespoon flour.
- 2 eggs.
- 4 tablespoon milk.
- 2 tablespoon brown sugar.

Method:

1- Peel and cut the platains in 4 or 5 pieces.

2- Fry the plantain in not too hot oil, let it get cool on an absorbent paper to get rid of the oil.

3- Take a bowl, put 2 eggs inside and whisk. Add milk and mix well.

4- Add sugar ,a pinch of salt and whisk until the sugar is dissolved.

Add the flour little by little and mix well.

5- Cut cheese and guava paste:

6- Cover a piece of plantain with transparent film, smash it with the help of a dish.

7- Put some cheese and guava paste in the center of the smashed plantain, wrap it and make a ball.

8- Bathe every ball in the dough made of egg and flour. Fry in hot oil.

9- Put on an absorbent paper to get rid of the oil. You should eat them while they are hot.

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Colombia

Sancocho is a staple dish in Colombia, it is also very common in Venezuela, Panama ,Ecuador ,Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Replubic.

This is a stew made from meet or fish and different types of tuber.

I present you the meat Sancocho, with a mix of different types of meat.

Ingredients:

- Spring onion or chive.

- 1 plantain.

- 2 onions.

- Garlic.

- 1 cob of corn.

- 1 yucca.

- 1 potato.

- 1/4 de pumpkin.

- Coriander.

- 3 tomatos.

- Cow meat and chicken .

- Thyme.

- Cumin.

- Oregano.

- Ground garlic.

Method:

1- Cook the meat with some water and salt using a pressure cooker, cook for 15 minutes.

2- Cut the onion and garlic in little pieces, fry until they are soft.

3- Cut chive and coriander.

4- Cut pumpkin and tomato into pieces.

5- Put inside one cooking pot, add meat, salt and the spices thyme, cumin, oregano and ground garlic. Pour some water until all the ingredients are covered. Cook on a medium heat, cover with a lid.