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Belizean Rice and Beans#EaTTheWorld

In: Belize, Coconut Milk, Eat the World

Rice and Beans is one of the most popular foods in Belize and the national dish of the country. The rice is cooked with coconut milk to give the dish a rich, tropical flavor but it’s made even more tasty by the addition of red kidney beans! . Serve this as a side with any protein for a yummy meal! The beans add some protein and fiber to the dish, making it more filling and healthy to eat.
The best part of this recipe that it is vegan and gluten free. For this recipe I have used dried kidney beans, you can use a can of cooked beans to reduce the time and make a quick meal.

Serves 3
Ingredients
To Cook The Beans
1/3 Cup Dried Red Kidney Beans
1½ Cup Water
Salt to taste
To Make The Rice & Beans
1 Cup Long Grain Rice
Cooked Red Kidney Beans
1 Small Onion - chopped
1 Clove Garlic - chopped
½ Teaspoon Dried Thyme

1 Cup Coconut milk
2 Cups Water - I used 2nd & 3rd extract of the coconut milk
Salt, to taste
2 Tablespoons Oil or Desi Ghee

Method

Rinse the beans in water and soak them for at least 4 hours. Then place them in pressure cooker with water, and cook on high for one whistle then reduce the flame and cook it for 10 minutes on medium look flame. When cooker cools open and check if the beans are cooked but firm. Drain the beans and keep aside.

In a large heat oil add the onions and garlic sauté till the onions are translucent. Then add the rice and sauté for a minute or two. Add salt, thyme, cooked beans, thin & thick coconut milk. Lightly give it good mix. Bring this to a rolling boil and place the lid, on the pot, reduce the flame to medium low, let it cook for 10 - 15 minutes. After 12 - 15 minutes remove the lid and check if the rice is cooked and all the moisture is absorbed by the rice. Fluff the rice with a fork. Serve hot with potato salad or any protein of your choice. Enjoy this Belizean Rice & Beans!

Labels: Belize, International Cuisine, Rice, Red Kidney beans, Coconut milk, Vegan, Gluten Free, Main Course, Eat The World

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Mofo Gasy/Madagascar Yeasted Pancakes#EatTheWorld

In: Appe Pan, Breakfast, Coconut Milk

Mofo Gasy (pronounced as muf gas)means "Malagasy bread", is a traditional breakfast from Madagascar, the large island off the southeast coast of Africa. It's also a common street food served as breakfast along with coffee/tea. Mofo gasy can also be made with coconut milk. Variations of the recipe occur based on the regions of Madagascar. On the coast, this bun is made from coconut milk and is known as mokary voanio or mokary coco. Mofo gasy is prepared with sweetened rice flour batter which is yeasted and cooked in greased circular moulds which ressembles quite like our own appe/aebleskiver pan.

Recipe Source Youtube
1 Cup = 250 Ml
Ingredients
2 Cups + 2 Tablespoons RiceFlour
¼ Teaspoon Instant yeast
2 Tablespoons Granulated Sugar
2 Tablespoons Freshly Grated Coconut
1 Cup Coconut Milk
I Egg
Oil /Desi Ghee as required

Method

Take a cup of water in a pan, add the 2 tablespoons rice flour, bring boil and cook until they turns as a thick paste, switch off the flame. Let the rice paste cool completely. In a large bowl add the rice flour, cooked rice paste, instant yeast, sugar then add the coconut milk and mix everything with your hand until it turns semi thick batter.

Keep it in warm place to ferment / doubles in volume for 3-6 hours. Once the batter ferment/doubles in volume, mix the batter well. Beat the egg, add this to the batter, mix well.

Heat an aebleskiver/appe pan over low heat.
Brush the cavities with the desi ghee/oil. Add some batter in each cavity till its full. Cover the pan and let the pancake cook for 2-3 minutes. Take the lid off and turn each bread over and let it cook till done.

Remove from the cavity and place the mofo gasy in a plate.
Repeat steps 8-12 using the remaining batter.

Serve the mofo gasy with maple syrup, honey or icing sugar drizzled over it, with hot coffee or tea.
These are soft and delicious

Labels: Yeasted, Pancakes, Appe Pan, Madagascar, International Cuisine, Coconut Milk, Rice flour, Gluten free, Eat the World, Breakfast, Sunday Funday
Join us as we Eat the World!!!

Check out all the wonderful Madagascan dishes prepared by fellow Eat the World members and share with #eattheworld. Find out how to join Eat the World here and have fun exploring a country a month in the kitchen with us!

Sending this to Sunday Funday too.

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Kari Koko - Seychelles Coconut Chicken Curry#EatTheWorld

In: Chicken, Coconut Milk, Eat the World

Coconut Chicken Curry is a delicious, slightly spicy curry. Creamy curry with the exotic flavors of the Seychelles Islands. A gluten-free & low carb /Keto dinner that comes together quickly and easily. Since I have made this a keto recipe, did not add potatoes, feel free to add if you want. I enjoyed this with cauliflower rice.

Ingredients
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
2 Medium Onions - peeled and finely chopped
3 Garlic Cloves - peeled and diced
1 Teaspoon Diced Ginger
1 Teaspoon White Pepper
¼ Teaspoon Clove powder
1 Teaspoon Ginger powder
1 Teaspoon Nutmeg powder
¼ Teaspoon Cinnamon powder
3 Tablespoons Curry Powder
1 Small Pinch Saffron Strands
1 Bay Leaf
A Sprig Curry Leaves
200 Grams Potato , peeled & cut into cubes - I did not add
800 Grams Chicken With Bone In - cut into curry pieces
250Ml Thick Coconut Milk
Salt to taste

Method

In a large heavy pot with lid, heat the oil over medium high heat. Add the onions, sauté until translucent. Add the garlic, fresh ginger, white pepper, cloves, ground ginger, nutmeg, curry powder, saffron, bay leaf and curry leaves. Stir over medium heat and allow to cook for 2 minutes to release the aromatics of the spices.
Add the chicken ( if you are adding potatoes add it along with the chicken), stir it well till the chicken is coated fully with the spices. Cover and cook until the chicken is done, stirring once or twice during the cooking time.

Pour in the coconut milk, lower heat to low, cover and allow to simmer for 20 minutes.
Remove the lid, stir and allow the mixture to cook an additional 15 minutes until creamy. Taste for salt and spices add if necessary
Remove the bay leaf and curry leaves before serving.

Serve over steamed rice or bread.
Labels: Keto, Seychelles, Main course, Coconut Milk, Chicken, Low Carb, Eat the World, Main course, International Cuisine

Each month Evelyne of CulturEatz invites us to visit a country and explore their foods. This month it's Seychelles .

Check out all the wonderful Seychelles dishes prepared by fellow Eat the World members and share with #eattheworld. Find out how to join Eat the World here and have fun exploring a country a month in the kitchen with us!

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Kuku Paka#EattheWorld

In: African, Chicken, Coconut Milk

Kuku Paka, a chicken-coconut curry, is a dish from Africa. The African word Kuku, which means chicken but what does Paka mean is unclear. It's a very delicious and comforting chicken gravy dish. Try it and you will love its it a Indian spices dish.

Ingredients

1 Kg Cleaned Chicken - make 14 to 16 pieces
1 Tin Coconut Milk (400 ML)
2 Tomatoes - blended
1 Heaped Teaspoon Salt or to taste
1/4 Teaspoon Turmeric powder
1 Teaspoon Roasted Cumin powder
2 Tablespoons Lemon juice
1 Tablespoon Heaped All Purpose Flour

1 Medium Onion - ground to paste
1/2 Cup Oil

For the Green Masala - grind to a fine paste

1 Tablespoon Ginger Garlic paste

8 Green chilies

½ Cup Coriander leaves

Method

Marinate chicken with salt, ground green masala keep for an hour.

Heat oil in a kadai / pot add onion paste and fry for 5 mins till light brown . Add marinated chicken. Fry well for 5 to 7 minutes. Add turmeric, cumin, tomatoes blended. Cover and cook for 10 mins. Add coconut milk. Cover and cook till chicken done say for another 10 minutes.

Lastly add flour paste stirring continuously till the gravy thick , according to the consistency you require . Now add lemon juice and take off flame.

Serve hot.

We enjoyed this with whole wheat rotis / chapati

Labels : Coconut Milk, Chicken, African, Congo, International Cuisine, Eat the World, Main course

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Atola - East Indian#SundayFunday

In: Cardamom Powder, Coconut Milk, East Indian

Atola is a traditional East Indian rice pudding that it made with newly harvested rice. This is basically a vegan, gluten free, no sugar, no oil , no ghee or butter, it has just 3 basic ingredients i.e. new rice , coconut milk , jaggery as a sweetener and is flavored with cardamom powder. It's delicious and creamy.

This is made only once a year with rice from the new harvest, on All Souls Day. The rice should be new as new rice is sticky and this is what we want. But if you don’t have rice from the new harvest then use any other rice.

All Souls’ Day, is a day dedicated to the dead and it is observed on 02 November every year. As per the Catholic church, it is the day of Commemoration of All The Departed Souls. Masses are offered for the dead. People also visit and decorate the graves of their loved ones.

Serves 4 - 5
Measurement of 1 Cup = 200Ml
Ingredients
¾ Cup Rice
1/3 Cup Chawli/Black Eyed Beans
1 Liter Thin Coconut Milk -Homemade
250Ml Thick Coconut Milk ( first extract)
160 Grams Jaggery - I used organic
½ Teaspoon Cardamom powder
¼ Teaspoon Salt
Method
Wash and soak the black eyed beans for 6 -8 hours.

In a deep vessel/pot add the rice, chawli beans, salt and

the thin coconut milk, bring it to boil and cook until the rice and chawli beans are soft ( keep stirring in between since this will stick to the bottom of the pot and get burnt).

Once the beans and rice are cooked this will thicken,

now add the jaggery , keep stirring it till the jaggery melts (taste, it if you want it sweeter than add more jaggery accordingly, for us the sweetness is just right) and the pudding comes to a boil.

Add the cardamom powder and the thick/first extract coconut milk, let it come to a slight simmer. Switch off the flame.

This will thicken as it cools.

Enjoy this warm. Super yummy & delicious!!

Labels: Rice, Homemade, Coconut Milk, Jaggery, Cardamom Powder, Pudding, Sweets & Desserts, East Indian, Sunday Funday, Vegan, Gluten free, No Oil Or Butter

Today for Sunday Funday Camilla of Culinary Adventures with Camilla, has chosen this theme for us Día de los Muertos - which is The Day of the Dead.

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Kerala Style Egg Stew With Idiyappam#Soupswappers

In: Breakfast, Coconut Milk, Egg

This Egg Curry or Mutta Curry ( mutta is egg in Malayam ) is a little spicy egg curry made in Kerala style with coconut milk.

Serve it with Idiyappam/Noolappam, Appam or Rice for a delicious and hearty meal.
Ingredients
6 Egg- Boiled
1 Medium Onion- finely chopped
3 Shallots/Sambar Onions - sliced
1"Piece Ginger- cut into juliennes
1 Green chilly- slit
5 Curry leaves-
1 Medium Tomato- sliced
1 Medium Potato - cubed
3 Tablespoons Coconut Oil
¼ Teaspoon Turmeric Powder
½ Teaspoon Chilli Powder
1½ Teaspoon Coriander Powder
1½ Cups Thin Coconut milk
1 Cup Thick Coconut Milk
Salt to taste
Method

Boil the eggs, remove the shell and given light cuts on all sides to the eggs and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan, sauté the onion, ginger ,green chilly and curry leaves, till the onion are translucent.

Add chilly powder ,turmeric powder and coriander powder, fry for 2 minutes.

Now add chopped tomato, potato and the thin coconut milk salt to taste, mix well, cover the pan with a lid till the potato is cook and to the tomato is mushy, keep stirring at intervals.

Add the eggs, and , give it a light stir. Cover the pan with a lid and let it come to a boil, it will take around for about 5 - 7 minutes on medium low flame.

When it comes to a rolling boil add the thick coconut milk, stir it well, on medium low flame let the coconut milk get heated, or let it starts to simmer at the sides of the pan. Switch off the flame , taste for salt.
Drizzle a teaspoon of coconut oil and add few chopped curry leaves and close the pan for few minutes say 5 -7 minutes.

Open and serve.

We enjoyed with Idiyappam/Noolappam
Idiyappam is also called Noolappam or Noolputtu.
1 Cup = 250Ml Cup
Ingredients
1 Cup Rice Flour - I have used Double Horse brand
1 Cup Water
½ Cup Coconut Milk
1 Teaspoon Coconut Oil
½ Teaspoon Sea salt or to taste

Method

Take the rice flour and lightly roast it for 2 -3 minutes stirring continuously, taking care that it doesn't change the color.

I have used this brand of rice flour.

Boil Water and coconut milk in a pressure cooker along with salt and coconut oil.

When it comes to a rolling boil, lower the flame and slowly add rice flour and mix well, with a wooden spatula, till no traces of white flour is seen, switch off the flame. Close the cooker with the whistle/weight on and remove from the stove top and keep aside for 15 minutes.

Then open the cooker and transfer the dough to a big bowl or thal and continue kneading.

When the mix is still warm but not too hot to handle, grease your hand and knead to a soft dough. Take one portion of the dough and close the remaining with a cloth and again with a lid to keep the moist.