Kaima Bona Gatoi - Roasted vegetables from Papua New Guinea

Kaima Bona Gatoi is a vegetarian dish from Papua New Guinea, it is usually served as a side dish with fish or meat dishes.

It is very easy to prepare and it is very similar to our roasted vegetables called 'escalivada'.

Ingredients:

- 1 Zucchini 

- 1 Eggplant 

- Salt 

- 1 Red Pepper 

- 1 Onion 

- 1 teaspoon of cilantro 

- 1 teaspoon of paprika, spicy or not, as you like.

- Vinegar 

- Oil 

Preparation:

1- Cut the eggplant and zucchini into 1 or 2 centimeter thick slices. Cut the onion into 8 pieces and the pepper into small pieces.

2- Put everything in a bowl and add salt, a little bit of oil, vinegar, ginger, cilantro, and paprika. Mix well and let the vegetables marinate for 1 hour.

3- Put the vegetables in the oven and cook for 10 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius, and you're done!

You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:

Here you have my  favourite cooking tools: https://viaja-en-mi-cocina-english.blogspot.com/2023/05/shop.html

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Chicken Saloona from Qatar

 Saloona is a meat stew typical from Middle East, here I present to you the recipe from Qatar.

Chicken is the most popular ingredient for the Saloona, but lamb meat can also be used and there is also a vegetarian version.

It is said that the dish has a Bedouin origin. It is very often consumed in Ramadan.

Ingredients:

- 3 cinnamon sticks.

- 4 green cardamom seeds.

- 3 dried lemons.

- 6 cloves.

- 2 onions.

- 1 teaspoon garlic.

- 1 kg chicken.

- 2 tomatos.

- 2 teaspoon ground coriander.

- 1 teaspoon turmeric.

- 3 teaspoon Arabian masala.

- Salt.

- Oil.

- 300 g potatoes.

- 300 g zuchinni.

- 2 carrots.

Method:

1- Put some oil in a casserole, add the cinnamon, cardamom, dry lemon and cloves, Heat until you smell the scent of the spices.

2- Cut the onions and sautée until it gets golden.

3- Add the garlic and the chicken (in pieces), cook for 5 or 6 minutes.

4- Cut the tomatos into pieces, add to the casserole and cook for 5 or 6 minutes with the lid on.

5- Add coriander, turmeric, salt and Arabian masala, mix well and cook for some more minutes.

6-  Cut potatoes, zuchinni and carrots into pieces, add them to the casserole , add also two glasses of water and cook for 40 minutes with the lid on.

7- To know if the potato is well done, use a knife as you see in the photo.

8- Use rice as a side dish.

Chicken Saloona

You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:

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

Favourite cooking tools

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Qatar

Arabian Masala

 Masala means spice, Indian masala is well known but there also exists the arabian masala consumed in the Middle East countries.

Here you have the recipe, this masala will be used for the recipe I will publish next week.

You can use less quantity of each spice but you should keep the proportions.

Ingredients:

- 100 g cumin seeds.

- 50 g coriander seeds.

- 75 g fennel seeds.

- 100 g green cardamon.

- 20 g clove.

- 40 g black pepper.

- 4 chili .

- 5 bay leaves.

- 5 star anise.

- 3 black cardamon seeds.

- 2 dried lemons.

- 100 g turmeric.

Method:

1- Cook all the species but the turmeric in one pan without oil. Put it on a low heat.

2- When you start to smell the scent of the spices turn off the heat and add the turmeric. Mix well.

3- Put the mixture in a spice grinder and grind. That's all!

You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:

Receta en Español

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

Favourite cooking tools

Sancocho

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.

 

6- Cut the plantain in pieces, do not use one knife, use your hands.

7- Cut the potato and yucca, cut the corn cob into two pieces. Put inside the pot , cook until the tubers are soft.

Now the sancocho is ready, serve with white rice or avocado.

Receta en Español

You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:

Colombia

Empanada from Colombia

                                                                                Receta en Español

The empanada reached Colombia with the spanish conquest, the original empanadas came from Galicia, the recipe changed in Colombia to adapt to the local ingredients.

At the beginning the empanadas were cooked in the oven, later they were fried, due to the African influence. The original empanadas were made from wheat flour, this was later changed to precooked corn flour.

The empanadas were original from Grecia and the Persian Empire, this way of cooking allowed to move the food wrapped in bread. That's the meaning of 'empanar' to wrap in bread.

This way of cooking reached Spain with the arab invasion on the VIII century.

El most typical filling is made from meat and vegetables.

Ingredients:

- Oil.

- 1/2 kilo shredded meat.

- 6 tomatos.

- 3 onios.

- 1/2 kilo precooked corn flour.

- 1 fresh coriander.

- Garlic.

- chili.

- 6 medium potatos.

- Cumin.

- Thyme.

- Ground garlic.

- Saffron.

- Salt.

- Water

Method:

1- Put the meat in a casserole together with some water, salt, onion, persil, leek, carrot and bay leaves.

Keep the broth, you will use it later to moisten the empanadas.

2- Peel and cut potatos into little cubes, cook them in water with salt during 12 minutes.

3- Cut onions, tomatos and garlic into little cubes.

4- Sautée onions and garlic.

5- Add the spices, the shredded meat, potatos, tomatos and cook for several minutes until all the ingredients are well cooked. Let it get cool.

6- Now it is time to make the dough. To obtain the characteristic yellow we use some threads of saffron, let it infuse in hot water during at least 10 minutes.

7- Put the flour in a bowl , add salt and the infused water. 

knead until it is homogeneous, if needed use some broth to moisten the dough.

Take some cling film, put it on a surface , moisten it with some oil.

Take a portion of dough, put it on the cling film, flatten and put some filling in the middle.

Follow the process you see in the photos:

8 - Fry the empanadas in hot oil.

9 - The empanadas are accompanied by the ají, cut the tomato into little cubes, cut the onion into little pieces. Mix together with some oil, salt and chili.

Where to buy the ingredients

Here you have links to the precooked corn flour.

This is the one with yellow colour:

 

   

 This is the one with white colour:

 

  

You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:

Here you have my favourite cooking tools: https://viaja-en-mi-cocina-english.blogspot.com/2023/05/shop.html

Colombia