Sunday, October 12, 2008

Caribbean Stew from my grand-mother

This recipe is from my grand-mother who has travelled a lot with my grand-father. I remember eating this as a kid and I have always loved it. If you want your children to eat veggies they will love this one!

Ingredients: (based for 2 people)

1 can of green lentilles
6 saussages (you can buy any but my grand-mother always used strassburgs or frankfurts and I find they are best)
2 TB of ground cumin
1 cup of boiling water
2 TB of tomato puree
1 TS salt
1 TS pepper
1 onion (half for the salsa and the other half for the stew)
3 cm of ginger
1 tomato
parsley
2 small lemons
2 cups of cooked rice

To make the salsa:

Press the juice of 2 lemons. Put it in a small bowl. Cut the tomato in small dice. Same for the onion. The ginger should be cut in tiny dice so the flavour is not too strong when you eat it. Add a little bit of salt and pepper.

To make the stew:

1. In a frying pan put a little bit of olive oil and fry the onions for 5 minutes. Put in the ground cumin and stir for a few seconds. Add the lentilles and stir again. Add the tomato puree and stir again. Then add the saussages.

2. Add 1 cup of boiling water (you might even need another 1/2 cup) to the stew and let it reduce for 10 to 15 minutes.

3. In each plate, put some rice, some stew (the main part should be the stew) and some salsa. Then shred some parsley on top of it.

Very fast recipe!

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