Kerikeri - Salad from New Zealand

 Kerikeri is a salad very typical of the Maori people, the natives from New Zeland.

The main ingredients are corn and green peas. It is very healthy and easy to prepare.
¡This is a vegan dish!.

Ingredients (3 people):

- 150 grams corn.
- 100 grams green peas.
- 1 cucumber.
- Half an onion.
- 1 garlic clove.
- Oil.
- Vinegar.
- Salt.
- Pepper.
- Cayenne.

- Chives.

Method:

1- Cook the green peas with water and salt. If they are frozen you can cook them 10 minutes in boiling water.

2- Cut the cucumber into little cubes.

3- Cut the onion, garlic and chive in pieces.

4- Mix the corn, green peas, cucumber and chives.

5- Take a jar, put inside the onion, garlic, oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and a bit of cayenne. Close the jar and shake well.

Pour the jar content on the salad.

Recipe in English

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Fish Bangladesh style

                                                                                Receta en Español

Fish is a staple ingredient in Bangladesh dishes, it is because there are a lot of rivers and km of coast in this country.
I saw this recipe at this Bangladeshi blog:  http://zuranazrecipe.com/rui-mach-fulkopi/

This recipe is made with a fish called Rui or Rohu very common in Bangladesh coasts, it is difficult to find in Spain so I used hake instead given that it has a similar texture.

You must accompany this fish by rice, as in every Bangladeshi dish.

Ingredients (4 people):

-  500 grams fish (Rui or hake).
-  150 grams chopped onion.
-  2 tablespoons chopped onion.
-  1/2 garlic clove.
-  1 teaspoon ground cumin.

-  1 teaspoon ground paprika.

-  1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric.

-  1/2 teaspoon ground coriander.

-  Oil.

-  Salt.

-  200 grams basmati rice.
-  2 tomatoes cut in pieces.
-  150 grams cauliflower.
-  100 grams green beans.
-  40 grams green peas.
- 1 green chilli.

Method:

1- Wash fish , sprinkle some salt and turmeric over both sides.

2- Put some oil in a frying pan, fry the fish.

3- Salt cauliflower, green beans and peas, steam them in a pressure cooker. Put some water on the bottom of the cooker, and place the vegetables in a steel basket. 
Close the pressure cooker , put on a high heat. Once the steam starts to come out,  put on a low heat and cook for 3 minutes.

4- Put a tablespoon of oil, chopped onion,coriander and cumin in a mortar. Pound well until you obtain a paste.

5- In a frying pan with oil, sauté 150 grams of chopped onion. Add the paste of step 4 and tomato cut in pieces, add salt, mix well and cook for 3 minutes at medium heat.

6- Add to the frying pan the fish and vegetables, mix well. Cover and cook for 6 minutes at medium-lower heat.

7- Serve accompanied by basmati rice, sprinkle some ground cumin and chilli over the fish.
You can see how to cook basmati rice in my explanation for this other recipe from Bangladesh: Palong Shak Daal

My comments to this Recipe

It is very easy to prepare, and the result is always good. The mixture of the spices match perfectly the fish. 
Besides, it is a healthy dish that you can consume whether you are on a diet or not.
The following day after the preparation of the dish , it is even taster.

Bangladesh

Chicken Chancao

                                                                               Receta en Español

Chicken chancao is a typical dish from Tarija, a region at the south of Bolivia, limiting south with Argentina and Paraguay.

Ingredients (2 people):

-  1 piece of chicken per person.
-  2 medium onions.
-  2 carrots cut into strips.
-  3 sprigs of parseley.
-  2 whole gloves of garlic.
-  Salt.
-  65 grams of Green peas.
-  1 potato per person.
-  ají paste to taste.
-  4 tomatos finely chopped.
-  1 lettuce leaf per person.
-  1 boiled egg per person.
-  Water.

Method:

1- Put in a big saucepan meat, onion cut in pieces, carrot cut in stripes, parsley, garlic and salt. Add water until meat is completly covered. Cook for 40 minutes or until meat is done.

2- Take a smaller saucepan, pour some spoonful of the chicken broth and add Green peas, cook for 10 or 15 minutes.

3- Put aside the Green peas and use the same saucepan to cook potatos and eggs. Cook them until potatos are soft.

4- Peel tomatos; the easiest way to do it is drawing a circumference on the surface of the tomato with the help of a knife. Boil water in a saucepan, once reached boiling point, bath tomatos in the boiling water during 20 seconds, use a skimmer to take them out of the water. Let tomatos get cold and you will see how easy they can be peeled!.

5- Cut the remaining onion in little pieces and saute it in a saucepan, until it gets brown.

6- Cut tomato into little pieces, add it to the onion, add salt.
Let it cook for half an hour at medium heat. It is not a tomato sauce, just the pieces of tomato well done will be the side dish.

7- Serve this putting in every dish the following: 1 lettuce leaf, 1 boiled egg cut into slices, 1 peeled whole potato, 1 piece of chicken. Pour a spoonfull of Green peas over the chicken, and he 'sauce' of tomato and onion. Add some aji paste to the chicken.

It will be spicy so be carefull!.

You can do this récipe with the remaining chicken broth: Con el caldo del pollo que te ha sobrado puedes hacer esta receta: Quinoa soup.

My comments to the Recipe

Tomato and aji paste are a good accompaniment to the chicken.
This is a healthy dish, you should be carefull with aji!!.

Where you can buy the ingredients

Aji can be bought at latin products stores.

I bought it in Madrid at Quintana underground: Hermanos Machado 24 , at the corner with Calle Collados.

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

Favourite cooking tools

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Quinoa soup

                                                                               Receta en Español

Quinoa is a seed from a weed native to the Andes Mountains of Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
It is a highly nutritious food , it has been eaten for 5000 years by people living in that area.
Incas named this seed 'God's food', it provides more minerals, and vitamins that any other cereal.
This seed is used as an important ingredient in many soups.

The recipe I present today is from 'La Paz' , Bolivia.

Ingredients:

-  1/2 Kg chicken or  beef.
-  100 grams Quinoa.
-  40 grams Green peas.
-  40 grams broad beans.
-  2 carrots.
-  1 potato.
-  Salt and grinded cumin to taste.
-  1 onion.
-  2 cloves of garlic.
-  2 spoons of chooped parsley.

Method:

1- First of all quinoa should be cleaned. Spread it on a dish and remove all the little stones, you can see in the picture what this stones look like (they are grey or black).

The coating of the seed conteins saponins, which are toxic and provide a bitter taste to the quinoa. So that quinoa should be well rinsed before being cooked.
Put quinoa in a strainer and pour wáter over it until you see water is clear, stir it from time to time to help the coating of the seeds go away.

2- Put in a saucepan meat, chopped onion, carrots cut in strips, garlic and salt.
Add water and boil for 40 minutes or until meat is cooked.
I cooked 1 Kg chicken because I used it later for another recipe.

3- Once meat is cooked, add broad beans, green peas and cumin.

Take out the meat and reserve what we are not using for this recipe, cut the rest of the meat into little pieces and add it again to the saucepan.

Now is time to add quinoa to the saucepan.

4- Wash potato , put it in another saucepan with water and salt, boil it until potato is soft when you prick it.

5- Once quinoa is open, add to the saucepan the cooked, peeled and cut in pieces potato .

6- Cook for a few minutes and it is ready!

Sprinkle parsley and serve!.

Comments to the Recipe

Quinoa has a good taste, this makes this a delicious soup, besides it provides a lot of minerals, and vitamins given by the quinoa.

Where you can buy quinoa

Quinoa is easy to find at latin products stores or  at biostores.

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

Favourite cooking tools

                                                                  By Caleb Moore (xrmap flag collection) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons