Coconut Pudding (Angola)

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Coconut desserts are typical in Angola. 'Cocada amarela' is the most popular, but today I present another dessert worldwide known made with coconut: Coconut Pudding.

We are going to cook it using microwave, an easy and fast recipe!.

Ingredients:

• 250g condensed milk.
• 4 eggs.
• 125 g grated coconut.
• 500 ml whole milk.
• 2 teaspoon cornstarch.
• 100 g sugar.

Method:

Put 100 grams sugar and 50 ml water in a saucepan, heat over medium heat. Stirr until sugar is well disolved. Once it happens, stop stirring to prevent it to crystallize.  
The moment the caramel begins to turn light brown, turn the heat off. 
The remaining heat in the saucepan will be enough to finish the cooking of the caramel.

Pour caramel at the bottom and sides of a microwave safe pudding baking mold.

In a blender combine eggs, milk, condensed milk , grated coconut and cornstarch, blend and pour over the caramelized sugar.

Cook in microwave at maximum power for 10 minutes.

Let cool for several hours, It is better to place it into the fridge during 12 hours and then unmold and taste it!.



Comments to the Recipe

It is delicious, condensed milk provides softness and sweetness . It is very easy and fast.

Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:  

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Angola

Funge

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Funge

This is the typical side dish to accompany the angolan dish Muamba de Galinha, although you can eat it as a side dish, in fact it is a dish on its own, it is the only way of feeding for many angolan families.

It can be made from corn or cassava flour.

Ingredients:

• 250 grams corn or cassava flour.
• 1 liter water.
• Salt to taste.

Method:

Pour a liter of water in a casserole and bring it to a boil. Meanwhile take another casserole with a litle warm water in it, add a litle quantity of flour and stir until the flour is well disolved.

Once the water in the casserole is boiling add the disolved flour and stir.

Step by step add the rest of the flour, stirring continously to avoid lumps. The moment the mixture looks like mashed potatoes, keep cooking and stirring five more minutes to finish the dish.

To reach the desired consistency , place the mixture in a bowl with a little water at the bottom, cover with a wet plate. Keep the dough like that for 10 minutes.

To serve use a wet spoon so that the dough does not stick to it.



Funge as a side dish of Muamba de Galinha

My Comments:

This is a different way to eat carbohydrates. In Angola they eat it without salt ,but it is far more tasty when you add salt.
It is soft and goes very well with Muamba de Galinha.

Angola

Muamba de Galinha (Angola)

                                                                                                                    Receta en Español
                                                                             Recette en Français



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.
• 300 g of chopped pumpkin.
• 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:

1. 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:  

Favourite cooking tools

Angola



Angola

By Addicted04 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons


Recipes from Angola that I cooked:

    Muamba de Galinha





                 Funge







         Pudding de Coco

By Paulo César Santos (Paulo César Santos) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons



Angola

Muamba de Galinha (Chicken Stew)

                                                                               Receta en Español



 

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.
• 300 g of chopped pumpkin.
• 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.

Method:

1. 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.

Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:  

Favourite cooking tools

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.

 

Angola