Sapasui from Samoa

  Sapasui is a typical dish in Samoa, the dish is a witness of the history of the country.

Sapasui was introduced by Chinese workers who arrived from the southern provinces of China to work in the 19th-century German Samoa. The Chinese were prohibited from mixing with the island's inhabitants, but despite this, marriages with Samoans emerged, and little by little, this Chinese-origin dish became part of Samoan culture.

It is an economical and very simple dish, a way to use leftovers. It is made with very thin transparent noodles called glass noodles or cellophane noodles.

These noodles are mixed with meat, which can be beef, pork, or chicken, along with vegetables, mainly cabbage and carrots.

Ingredients:

- 500 grams of meat.

- 1 package of glass, vermicelli or cellophane noodles.

- 1 onion.

- 3 tablespoons of soy sauce.

- 3 carrots.

- 1/2 cabbage.

- 2 garlic cloves.

- Pepper.

Method:

1- Cut the carrots into slices and the garlic and onion into julienne strips.

2- Remove the central part of the cabbage and cut the rest into stripes.

3- Sautée the onion and garlic.

4- Add the carrot and continue cooking until the carrot is soft.

5- Add the cabbage and cook for some minutes.

6- Add the meat cut into littles pieces and cook until the meat is done. Add pepper but do not add salt, the soy will give the salty taste later.

7- Put some water to a boil , add the soy sauce. Once the water reaches the boiling point add the noodles and cook for 10 minutes.

8- Add the noodles to the casserole with the cabbage and meat, you can also add some of the broth.

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Rosemary Lamb from New Zealand

Lamb is very common in New Zealand, They are not original from the country but they adapted to the environment very well and today they outnumber three times the humans.

Rosemary lamb is the most common way to cook the lamb at New Zealand , eaten for special occassions even Christmas or New Year's Day

Ingredients:

- 1 leg of lamb.
- 6 garlic cloves.
- 3 potatoes.
- 1 sweet potatoes.
- 2 lemons.
- dried figs.
- Chives.
- little onions.
- One piece of pumpkin .
- 100 grams of mushrooms.
- Radish.
- 1 tablespoon rosemary.
- 1 tablespoon parseley.
- Salt.
- Pepper.

Method:

1- Peel and cut all the vegetables in little pieces (Potatoes, sweet potaoes, pumpkin, mushroom, radish).

2- Peel the lamb leaving a little layer of fat.

3- Pour some oil in a oven proof dish, put all the vegetables inside.

4- Add the little onions, dried figs and chives.

5- Put the lamb leg on top of all the vegetables , cut garlic cloves in half ,make some cuts along the leg's lamb and place the garlic cloves into each cut.

6- Make the sauce with 2 lemons' juice, a tablespoon rosemary, a tablespoon pearsley, salt and pepper. Mix well and pour over the lamb.

7- Preheat the oven to 200ºC, cook at the same temperature for 1 hour and 20 minutes.

To see if the lamb is well cooked poke the meat with a knife.

Let cool for 10 minutes and serve accompanied by meant, currant jam or rosehip.

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