Honduran Salpicón- Keto#EatTheWorld

Beef Salpicón is a traditional Honduran dish that is both delicious and very easy to make. It's actually a meat salad served over steamed rice or veggies, totillas or lettuce leaves. What I like about this recipe that doesn’t require any additional fats or oils, the dish is low in fat. It's a perfect keto meal recipe. This Honduran recipe is prepared with culantro, which is a variety of culantro with large leaves that grow from the root. Since I did not have this, used coriander leaves, which I, read in google can be subsituted for it.

Ingredients
To Stew The Beef
1 Kg Boneless Beef
2 Medium Tomatoes - diced
1 Medium Onion - cut in fourths
4 Clove Garlic
1 Red Pepper
Salt and pepper, to taste
3 Culantro Sprigs - I used Coriander Sprigs
To prepare The Salpicón
1 Red Pepper - finely diced
1 Small White Onion - finely diced
½ Bell Pepper - cut into fine strips
½ cup Bitter Orange Juice (or substitute with lemon juice or vinegar)
Salt and pepper, to taste
3 Tablespoons Chopped Coriander Leaves
To Serve
Tomato, Onion & Avocado
Method

Put the beef in a pot together with the tomato, onion cut into fourths, garlic and red pepper. Cover the ingredients with water and cook over medium heat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook for 2 hours being careful to remove, from time to time, any foam that might form on the surface of the water. You will have to stew the beef until it’s very tender, about 2 hours, adding water if it gets too dry.

Once the beef is tender, season with salt and pepper and add the sprigs of coriander. Turn off burner and let the stew cool completely. Strain the stock and serve it as a consommé or use it as a stock for another soup or in a different recipe.

Shred the stewed with a fork. Put the beef in a bowl along with the diced red pepper, white onion, bell pepper, vinegar and more salt and pepper to taste. Add the chopped coriander leaves.

Serve with salad, rice, steamed vegetables instead of rice and tortillas, or in use salpicón as the filling in lettuce wraps. It's a light dish that will fill you for hours and give you energy. Enjoy!! Refrigerate to serve the salad cold, although it's best when served at room temperature.

Labels: Keto, Honduran, Beef, Salad, Low Carb, International Cuisine, Side Dish, Eat the World

Check out all the wonderful Samoa recipes 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!

For Eat The World we are sharing recipes of Honduras.

• A Day in the Life on the Farm: Honduran Baleadas 
• Sneha's Recipe: Honduran Salpicón-Keto 
• Amy's Cooking Adventures: Honduran Style Refried Beans 
• Culinary Cam: Tastes of the Tropical Coastal Lowlands of Honduras

Jeerem Meerem Powder/Cladin Masala-Homemade#AlphabetChallenge

This Goan Jeerem Meerem Powder is a type of spice mix powder. It is very versatile powder which can be used for meats, eggs or vegetables. Jeerem Meerem Powder is a roasted masala which is also known as Dry Cladin Masala Powder.

Ingredients
50 Grams Cumin seeds
35 Grams Turmeric
25 Grams Black peppercorns
1 Teaspoon Cloves
2 Sticks Cinnamon (1" each)
1 Dried Red Chilly
Method

Lightly Roast all these in a dry pan. Put the spices in a coffee grinder and powder it finely. Pass the powders through a sieve & bottle. Use as required.

This recipe is very versatile and can used as a dry rub for vegetables, meats and fish. Mix it together and store in a airtight spice bottle. Refrigerate if you are using it occasionally so that the color and taste is maintained.
It can also be used to make wet spice paste, just add palm vinegar and fresh ginger-garlic paste.

Labels: Goan, Masala, Jeerem Meerem Powder, Caldin Masala, Homemade, Alphabet Challenge

Let's take a look at the recipes being shared today with Alphabet "J" 

• Sneha’s Recipe: Jeerem Meerem Powder/Cladin Masala-Homemade 
• Blogghetti: Easy Crock Pot Chicken Jambalaya 
• Mayuri’s Jikoni: Armenian Jajukh Salad 
• Jolene’s Recipe Journal: Creamy Jalapeno Corn 
• Food Lust People Love: Small Batch Strawberry Jam 
• A Messy Kitchen: Jollof Rice 
• Karen’s Kitchen Stories: Thai-Style Turkey and Jasmine Rice Soup 
• A Day in the Life on the Farm: Jamaican Jerk Chicken 
• Culinary Cam: Inspired by a One-Word Text: Jjamppong 
• Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice: Sweet & Spicy Jalapeño Canned Tomato Salsa 
• Magical Ingredients: Jalapeno Popper Dip

Guava Cheese#SundayFunday

Guava Cheese is a sweet prepared by Christians for Christmas. It's very easy and has a long shelf life. This is cheesy, soft, melt in the mouth sweet. Do give it a try. This sweet has no flour or eggs, completely vegetarian, vegan, gluten free. My mom's favorite sweet. 

Ingredients
4 Cups Guava Pulp (1½ Kg Ripe Big Guavas)

4 Cups Tea Sugar
Juice of 3 Big Lemons
2 Tablespoons Ghee
Few drops of Pink/ Red color or color of your choice
Method

Wash the guavas and cut them in halves, place it in a container and steam them in a pressure cooker (like you steam rice) on high for one whistle then reduce the flame and keep it for 10 minutes ( taking care that no water enters the container). 

Cool the guavas completely then take a spoon and scoop out the seeds and keep aside, taking care that no seeds remain in the outer covering.
Take the seeds pulp in a fine strainer and remove the pulp as much as possible. 
Take the outer cover and chop it into small pieces and grind it to a fine paste without adding any water.

Measure the pulp and the ground paste in a cup or a bowl. Take the same bowl and measure the sugar. 
Place the sugar, guava pulp and lime juice in a heavy bottom base kadai and place on fire on medium low flame stirring continuously with a wooden spoon.

While stirring take care to stay far away as it splutters. Keep stirring continuously, this take around 45 minutes to an hour. When the mixture thickens and starts leaving the sides add the ghee and color, continue stirring till starts form a ball in the center. 

Take it our into a greased tray and spread it. Cool completely and cut into squares. Store in airtight containers.

This stays good for 3 months in a cool dry place.

Labels: Festival Sweets, Gluten free, Guava, Lime Juice, Sugar, Vegan, Vegetarian, Christmas, East Indian, Sunday Funday

For Sunday Funday we are celebrating Moms Day. 

Check the recipes made to celebrate this special day!   

• Edible Gelatin Balloons for Cake Decorating from Amy's Cooking Adventures
• Guava Cheese from Sneha's Recipe
• Haldi Doodh Masala Spiced Cupcakes with Burnt Caramel Buttercream from Culinary Cam
• Honey Mustard Chicken Strips from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Pistachio Saffron Muffins from Mayuri's Jikoni
• Rustic Baked Potato Soup from Food Lust People Love
• Shortbread Lemon Squares from Our Good Life

Instant Urad Dal Flour & Rava Medhu Vadas#AlphabetChallenge

These are instant and crispy, but not so spongy  like the freshly ground dal, but  taste delicious . Have these with this Sambar and you will enjoy this.   

The  key to make these light is to beat for at least 15 minutes with a electric hand beater till bubbles are seen and the batter is fluffy.

Makes 12 - 14 depending on the size
Ingredients
1 Cup Urad Dal Flour
4 Tablespoons Heaped Rice Flour
½ Cup Heaped Fine Rava /Semolina
½ Teaspoon Cumin seeds
1 Green Chilly -finely chopped
6 Curry Leaves - finely chopped
1 Tablespoon Finely Chopped Coriander leaves
½ Teaspoon Salt 
1½ Cups Water
Oil for deep frying 
Method 

With an electric hand beater whisk the urad dal flour with water( adding a little water at a time) till it forms a light & fluffy dough, for at least 15 minutes. When light, fluffy add rice flour, whisk till a thick & bubbly batter is formed.

Now add the rava/semolina and beat again for 3 minutes (it should be a thick dough like batter). Let it rest for 10 minutes. Then add chopped green chillies, cumin seeds, coriander and curry leaves.

Mix well and again keep it aside.

Let this rest  till oil is getting hot in a kadai.

When the oil is hot make small vadas and fry on medium flame till crisp and golden.

Enjoy!!

We had it with  Sambar for our Sunday lunch, a change from the normal food.  Enjoyed it thoroughly!!

Labels: South Indian, Instant Mixes, Snacks, Breakfast, Main course, Deep Fried, Vegan, Alphabet Challenge

Let's take a look at the recipes being shared today with Alphabet "I"

Alphabet Challenge Please add your Blog Name/ Blog URL/ Recipe Title in the corresponding weeks below Alphabet Challenge-Week I - Apr 23-Final

• Sneha’s Recipe: Instant Urad Dal Flour & Rava Medhu Vadas 
• Blogghetti: Italian Chopped Salad 
• Mayuri’s Jikoni: Ice Apple Salad 
• Jolene’s Recipe Journal: Ice Cream Wafflewiches 
• Food Lust People Love: Fresh Cherry Ice Cream 
• A Day in the Life on the Farm: Italian Ice 
• Karen’s Kitchen Stories: Iced Gems 
• A Messy Kitchen: Irish Colcannon Mac and Cheese 
• Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice: Sun-Dried Tomato & Kale Italian Pasta Salad 
• Culinary Cam: Es Teler (Indonesian Drunk Ice)

Veggie Mini Vol-au-Vents#SundayFunday

These are excellent party appetizers, try them and your guest will enjoy them. We enjoyed these, could not stop at one, so make more in case, your guest ask for another one.

Ingredients 

15 Mini Vol-au-vents Shells - used ready shells
For the Filling 

¼ Cup Finely Chopped French Beans
¼ Cup Finely Chopped Carrots
¼ Cup Green Peas
1 Cup Bechamel Sauce

¼  Teaspoon Mixed Herbs

¼  Teaspoon Red Chilly Flakes

Salt to taste 

Cheddar Cheese as required
Method

Parboil all the veggies and keep aside.
In a sauce pan heat the Bechamel Sauce, mix well to make it smooth and lump free, add rest of the ingredients except the cheese. Taste for salt and add accordingly. Keep aside to cool.

To Assemble 
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, turning both the elements on ( i.e. grill rod too). 

Take each shell and core it with a spoon carefully so that you do not break right into the bottom ( this is to give a little depth).  Like wise prepare all the shells.  Arrange them in a lined tray.

Place a teaspoon of filling

Grate the cheese on top

Place it in the oven bake  till the cheese melts say about 7 -10 minutes or so.

Serve and Enjoy!!

Labels :  Vol-au-Vents, Vegetarian, Cheddar Cheese, Party pleasers, Baked, Puff Pastry, Bechamel Sauce, Sunday Funday

Tea Party 

• Banana Peanut Butter Cookies by Food Lust People Love
• Caramel Apple Tea Rub for Pork by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Chamomile Spring Veggie Chowder by Culinary Cam
• Ginger Basil Tea by Amy's Cooking Adventures
• Veggie Mini Vol-au-Vents by Sneha's Recipe