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

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Colombia

Rice Solomon Islands style

                                                                               Receta en Español

It is difficult to find recipes from The Solomon islands, I came up with this dish watching pictures from people that have lived there  and post pictures of what they eat on the internet.
I have observed that this dish is the most popular, Rice in soya sauce with vegetables accompanied by fish.

To cook in Europe with similar fish from the kind of fishes they consume, we can use red bream or red snapper.

This recipe shows the influence of the european and asian gastronomies in the Solomon islands.
It is a juicy rice thanks to de soya and vegetables.





Ingredients:

•   1 green pepper.
•   1 spring onion.
•   1/2 eggplant.
•   1 tomato.
•   Soya sauce.
•   Salt.
•   1 cup of rice.
•   2 cups of water.
•   1 lime.

   

Method:

1-   Cut pepper and onion into stripes.

2-   Sautée  onion and pepper in a casserole with some oil for 3 minutes on a high heat.

3-   Cut tomato and eggplant.

4-   Add eggplant and tomato to the casserole, cook for 10 minutes.

5-   Pour some soya sauce, rice and water. Put on a high heat until it reaches boiling point, then turn it to a low heat and cook for 20 minutes.

6-   After the 20 minutes , turn off the heat and let it stand covered with a cloth.

7- Now it is time to cook the fish, salt both sides of the fish, put some oil in a recipient for oven. Put the fish into this recipient. Make 3 cuts on the fish and place 3 lime slices into each of them.

8- Preheat oven at 175 ºC, cook in oven at the same temperature for 30 minutes.

9- Serve a piece of fish accompanied by rice.



Solomon Islands

Pumpkin,coconut and lime Soup (Solomon islands)

                                                                              Receta en Español

There is not a lot of information about the gastronomy at Solomon islands, I found this recipe in this site dedicated to the soups of the world:
http://soupsofourplanet.com/2014/11/10/solomon-islands-curried-coconut-and-lime-gourd-soup/
They use the typical ingredients of these islands; pumpkin,coconut and lime.

Ingredients:

•   2 tablespoons oil.
•   4 chalotes.
•   2 tablespoons ground ginger.
•   2 cloves of garlic.
•   800 grams of pumpkin.
•   4 cups of broth. (1 liter aprox).
•   2 cups of water. (480 ml).
•   3 tablespoons of ground curry.
•   1 cup of coconut milk (240 ml).
•    lime juice.
•    Salt.

For Broth:

•  Some leaves of spring onions.
•  Some leek leaves.
•  1 clove of garlic.
•  1 chunk of onion.
•  1 chunk of pepper.
•   Salt.
•   Parsley.

   

Method:

1-  We prepare a broth putting the ingredients in a casserole with water.  Put fire on a high heat and bring it to a boil. Once it reaches boiling point, turn fire on a low heat ,then cook for 30 minutes.

2-  Cut the chalotes in little pieces, sauté them in a casserole with oil for 3 minutes until they are golden.

3-  Add garlic cut into slices together with ginger, sauté 1 more minute.

4-  Peel and cut pumpkin into little pieces, Add it to the casserole. Add the cup of broth and cup of water.

Put on a high heat until it reaches boiling point, then turn to a low heat and cook covered for 30 minutes until pumpkin is soft.

Don't forget to add salt.

5-  Make a purée with the help of a blender.

6-  Add curry, coconut milk and lime juice.

7-  Stir well and serve with some basil on the top:



Solomon islands