Archive for January, 2010

West African cuisine is unusual when the meat is a scarce and valuable and as a result, the dishes can be difficult to plant components, it is still difficult to find a great vegetarian dish. Part of the reason for this is that the dried fish, meat and fish by cutting the heads and feet of animals and their tails are often used as a condiment for the basic resources in almost every recipe. The same goes for the classic dishes of West chilihaltige 'Pepper> Soup ".

Recently I was at a dinner theme of West Africa for some friends, a family. However, some of the guests who were vegetarians, and I found myself faced with the unusual situation that makes a vegetarian version of pepper soup. The basis of this recipe is my wife, pepper sauce base (which is in Liberia) and a recipe for West African Moy Moy (Black-Eyed Bean cakes). The recipe that results is available at:

For Moy-Moy

500gBlack-Eyed Peas (Akara)
Salt and pepper

What you really need is dust Akara (Black-Eyed-seed meal), but it is difficult to find. Just add the beans in a coffee grinder and make a smooth paste. Try this pasta in a bowl and slowly, just enough water to have a smooth, thick paste. Cover with a cloth and allow to stand for one hour. During this period, the beans are part of the water and can raise. Just add a little 'more water for the mixture of a returnsmooth batter with salt and pepper.

You can use the dough immediately, but tastes much better when (in the refrigerator overnight, the flavors intensify on the left). When you're ready to mix, use the dough Stir thoroughly to remove air bubbles, fat as a basis for the wells in a muffin pan, and the mixture) into wells scoop (complete filling of no more than 3 / 4, the mixture should be sufficient to occupy at least five wells. Place the muffin tin in a large casserolepartially-filled with water. Cover with foil and then baked in the oven at 190 ° C and is heated to about 50 minutes, or until cooked through and firm. (Test a spear in the middle of the cake. If I spit clean the cake is created completely.)

Cool, then set aside. Quarter of the beans, cakes and fry in oil until the pepper soup.

For the red pepper soup

20 Scotch Bonnet chillies
Juice of 1 lime
Vegetable broth(any combination of carrots, onions, pumpkins, cabbage, broccoli stems, celery)
1 small can tomato sauce
2 onions, coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 / 2 teaspoon salt
Plants
12 cloves garlic, minced

First, that a stock of fish by gently frying 6 cloves garlic, diced, chopped onion, sliced squash, broccoli stalks of chopped celery and a little 'oil until the onions soft and transparent. Add 2l of water and bringBring the mixture to a boil. Simmer to reduce, and simmer for 30 minutes. By the end of this time is the soup through a sieve into a clean pot and then press a lot of vegetables through the sieve as you can.

Take 12 of the chilli and add to a large mortar and pestle. Pound to a coarse paste, then add the chopped onion and pound into a paste that, along with black pepper and remaining garlic. Heat oil in a pan for 60 ml and Ad-chili paste. Cook a few minutes(about 5), then season with salt and transferring this mixture to the pan with vegetable broth. Add the remaining chilli whole and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for about 30 minutes.

Now you can add fries Moy Moy and add tomato puree and another 10 minutes or until the beans are cooked cake. Serve in a large bowl, accompanied by rice.

Traditionally, guests will be the soup in a bowl and spoon, mash the peppers all over with a fork wouldbefore eating.

Although this is very hot, but has a remarkable property that brings the full flavor of Scotch Bonnet peppers (and are very tasty boiled) in this way. In West Africa, is this soup, and its variants, as a general recovery-me-up, and if you use your sense of time and then the soup as a pick-General '-me-up preparation.

This soup pepper really offer the real flavor of West Africa and is a version of thisknown by almost all West African countries. If you wish, of course, eyes Fundamental pepper soup recipe, but the fried fish or fried chicken instead of parts Black Bean Cakes.


Today, eating, doctors encourage us to less red meat and poultry. If you're always looking for new ways to get your family to eat more chicken, here are some recipes for you. Chicken with olives is a different spin on the ever popular boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Chicken Crescent Nature combines chicken with delicious croissants for a real celebration. This recipe helps sneak some broccoli into food for the family and is a good way to relicChicken.

CRESCENT CHICKEN crown

2 tubes (8 ounces each croissant) chilled

1 cup low-fat cheddar cheese

2 / 3 cup of chicken soup, undiluted

1 / 3 cup chopped broccoli

1 / 2 cup red bell pepper

1 / 4 cup water chestnuts, minced

3/4-1 cup diced cooked chicken

2 tablespoons minced onion

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Arrange the croissant on a 12-inch pizza pan, a ring with a peakLook at the outer edge of the pot. Large ends overlapping. Combine the remaining ingredients and spoon over the ends of rolls. Fold points over filling and tuck in all extremities. The filling is visible. Bake 20-25 minutes, until golden brown.

Chicken with olives

1 red pepper

1 orange bell pepper

1yellow pepper

6 skinless, boneless chicken breast half

3 / 4 teaspoon salt

1st / 4 teaspoon black pepper

2 TPS olive oildivided

2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary

2 cloves garlic, minced

3 tablespoons chopped pitted Kalamata olives

3 tablespoons chopped pitted green olives

2 teaspoons lemon juice

Preheat broiler. Peppers cut in half lengthwise, remove the seeds and the measurement of the membrane. Place half pepper, skin sides up, on baking pan lined with foil and remove by hand. Roast 10 minutes or until blackened. Packed in a zip-top and sealed. Let stand for 10 minutes. From the bag, peel and. Hacker

Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a large stick saucepan over medium heat. Add the chicken and cook 5 minutes per side or until no longer pink in center. Remove from pan, keep warm.

Add 1 teaspoon oil, rosemary and garlic in skillet until the garlic begins to brown. Stir in peppers, olives and lemon juice. Cook 1 minute or until completely heated, stirring constantly there.

Yield: 6 people 1 chicken and 1 / 3 cupSalsa

Per serving: 159 calories, 3 g sugar, 27 g protein

Enjoy!


This recipe is delicious casserole. To verify this, and I'm sure will be surprised, surprising.

Then there are some recipes stew:

>> Mac Chicken Casserole

~ 3 half cooked chicken breast, skin and cut into cubes

~ 8 ounces elbow macaroni – cooked and drained

~ 20 ounces frozen chopped broccoli – cooked and drained

~ 8 ounces fat-free sour cream

~ 1 can reduced fat chicken broth

~ 1 can creamBroccoli soup, condensed milk, salt and pepper – to taste

~ 2 c low-fat shredded cheddar cheese

Cook chicken in boiling water. Remove the chicken and cook macaroni drain the water of cooking chicken. Cook broccoli.

Mix sour cream and soup, then add the chicken, pasta and broccoli. Pour all into a greased 9×13 pan. Top with cheese. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until heated through and champagne.

>> Chicken Enchilada Casserole

~ 3 TBButter or margarine, melted

~ 1 / 2 c green bell pepper

Beans chicken ~ 1 1 / 2 c Cubed cooked

2 C ~ 15 ounces ranch style

1 ~ C 4 oz green chilies, minced

~ 12 pc 6-inch corn tortillas

C ~ 1 onion, chopped

~ Paragraph 1 clove garlic, minced

~ 2 teaspoons flour

~ 1 1 / 2 c chicken broth

~ 1 c shredded Monterey Jack

Sautee onion, pepper and garlic in 1 tablespoon butter. Combine onion mixture with chicken, beans and Chilean assigned. A low heatMix the butter and remaining flour, chicken broth and 1 / 2 cup of cheese. While continuously, cook until the sauce begins to thicken and cook. Remove from heat.

Dip each tortilla in hot sauce softened even built it with 2 tablespoons of chicken mixture Geh. . Arrange rolls in 9-Rewind-13-in-2-inch baking pan. The rest of the remaining sauce filling, pour over rolls. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until the ovenheated through.

That's it for today! If you only want to control pot recipes below: