Lentils with bananas from Comoros

The recipe I present to you today is from Comoros, a country from Africa, this is an original way to cook the lentils, It is healthy, vegan and nutritious.

Ingredients:

- 3 green bananas.

- 300 grams lentils.

- 1 onion.

- 3 garlic cloves.

- 1 tomato.

- 1 tablespoon curry.

Method:

1- Peel and cut the bananas into slices, then cut the onion, garlic and tomato into pieces.

2- Put the ingredients in a casserole following this order: First a layer of bananas.

3- Add the lentils.

4- Add other layer of bananas, onion and garlic.

5- Add water until you just cover the ingredients.

6- Add curry and salt.

7- Cook at medium heat until bananas are soft, now add the tomato.

8- Cook at medium heat until the lentils are done. It will take between one hour - one hour and a half.

They will cook faster if you cover the casserole leaving a space to let the steam go out.

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Comoros

Roasted fish with Eluit el tuu (banaba and coconut milk)

                                                                                Receta en Español

In the Palau Islands fish is a main ingredient at many dishes, like coconuts and bananas.

Today's recipe combines all these ingredients, a grilled fish accompanied by 'Eluit el tuu' , a typical side dish that can also be eaten as a dessert.

I have chosen a fish that can be found in the Pacific Ocean and it is easy to find it in Europe , this is the snapper.

This is an original way of eating fish, with a lot of lemon taste accompanied by the slight sweetness of the banana and the smoothness of the coconut milk.

Ingredients:

- a snapper.

- 1 lemon.

- Salt.

- ground garlic.

- ground onion.

- ground white pepper.

- 2 kaffir lime leaves.

- 3 little bananas.

- 1 can coconut milk.

- 1 tablespoon of sugar.

Method:

1- Place the snapper on an oven proof dish. Make some cuts along the fish loin. Sprinkle some salt over both sides of the fish.

2- Sprinkle ground garlic, ground onion and ground white pepper over both sides of the fish.

3- Take the kaffir lime leaves, cut then in little pieces and put those pieces into the cuts along the fish loin.

4- Put half a lemon slice in each cut of the fish loin.

5- Put the fish in the oven for 1 hour at 175 º Celsius.

6- Now is time to cook the side dish, cut and peel bananas the way you can see at the pictures:

7- Pour the coconut milk into a casserole, add a pinch of salt and a tablespoon of sugar. Stir well and add the bananas.

8- Put on  a high heat until it reaches boiling point, then put on a low heat and cook for 15 minutes, if you want it thick cook without a lid, otherwise put a lid on. I did it with no lid.

9-  Now you are ready to serve, you put a portion of the fish and a good tablespoon of the banana at its side.

Palau

Banana sponge cake from Cape Verde

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Banana sponge cake or 'Bolo de banana' is a typical dessert from Cape Verde. It is a sponge cake with a layer of banabas and other layer of caramel, it will sure surprise you.

Ingredients for the caramel:

-  200 grams white sugar.
-  200 ml water.

Ingredients for the sponge cake (mold17x25 cm):

-  6 bananas (1 Kg).
-  200 grams sugar.
-  250 grams wheat flour.
-  200 grams butter.
-  4 eggs.
-  100 ml  whole milk.
-  chemichal yeast.
-  Salt.
-  1 dessert spoon cinnamon.

Method:

1- Pour some milk in a bowl, add egg yolks and beat well.

2- Add butter, sugar and mix well, you can use a food processor to help you.

3- Add flour, yeast, salt and mix well.

4- Cut bananas into slices , place then in the base of the cake mold where we are going to cook the cake.

Take the spare bananas (I had 3 bananas left), crush then with the help of a fork and make a banana paste that you are going to add to the mixture, stir well.

5- Whisk the egg's whites until they go stiff.

6- Add the whites to the mixture and stir with encircle movements.

7- Add ground cinnamon over the banana slices , then prepare the caramel, to do this, put the water and sugar in a casserole, put on a medium heat and cook until the water turns into a slightly brown colour, this is the moment when you turn the heat off, the remaining heat will make the caramel will turn into a deeper brown colour. Before the caramel gets dry, pour it into the cake mold, over the bananas.

8- Pour the dough over the bananas and caramel.

9- Preheat oven at 180 º C for 5 minutes then, cook the cake for 30 or 40 minutes until it gets gold ,you know it is cooked when you poke the cake with a knife and you take it out clean.

10- Before unmold, let it get cool, you should turn the cake upside down , because the bananas should be presented upwards. As you can see in the pictures.

Cabo Verde

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