Saturday, November 24, 2012

Banana and Beef Stew











This is a simple African inspired dish. I cook it whenever I can get my hands on green bananas.

In vegetable oil saute

2 roughly chopped onions.
1 clove of garlic sliced
1 green pepper sliced
1 or 2 chopped tomatoes
500 gms of diced beef add when vege is softened

Add 1 cup of red wine and simmer for 20 minutes allowing to reduce
Add 200 gms of sliced okra and 4 or 5 diced chilled
Add 400mls of coconut cream simmer until beef is soft and well cooked

Add an additional 400mls coconut cream
And 2 or 3 roughly cut green bananas.

Thats it simple but really nice, you can of course use any vegetables you have to hand.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Bacon Wrapped Chicken

This is a slow cooker recipe, I cooked it for 8 hours but it made the chicken a little dry. I'm thinking I would use chicken thighs the next time I tried this dish.

Wrap each chicken breast in bacon and pin.

Place in slow cooker with a mixture of BBQ sauce and red wine
Add diced carrots, celery and onion

Cook on low for 8 hours

Serve on flavoured cous cous

Don Sukiyaki


Ok to be fair this is really a Japanese variant on spicy mince with left over vegetables.

Take a little oil and saute
A mixture of vegetables use whats in the fridge
I used carrot, celery, onion
Brown some mince

Then add Sukiyaki sauce
Soy sauce
Sugar
Mirin
Sake
Or buy it ready made (which I did)
I added Ketchap Manis

Serve on top of rice, this is Donburo.


Friday, November 2, 2012

Spinach Lasagne


Heat oven to 200c

In a fry pan saute
1 diced onion
2 diced garlic cloves
250 gms baby spinach wilted

Combine in a bowl with ricotta cheese

Pour a little pasata on the base of a baking dish
Place a covering of pasta sheets
Cover with a layer of Ricotta cheese
Top with the spinach mixture
Add more pasata
Place more pasta sheets
Repeat
At the end place the pasta sheets
Cover with béchamel sauce and grated cheese

Bake until golden