Pas de Deux Salad
Serves four Preparation time: 40 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Ingredients Water dropwort (Oenanthe javanica) shoots with tough petioles removed, 2 portions of 50 g each Onion, 2 stems of green onion and 1 bulb onion of 80-100 g Cherry tomato, 8-10 Pepper, red and yellow sweet, 80-100 g each; chili, 3 of small size [...]
Healthy Jelly
Makes 20-25 jellies Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Ingredients Ashitaba (Angelica keiskei) leaves, 70 g Apple, half (about 200 g) Agar powder or plain pectin, 1 1/2 teaspoons Sugar, 70 g Water, 600 ml Preparation 1. Rinse ashitaba leaves, cut into small pieces, and blend with water in a blender until smooth. [...]
African eggplant and okra
Serves 6 Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Ingredients 2 big tomatoes 2 onions 2 carrots ¼ kg okra 8 tbs cooking oil ½ kg African eggplant 2 cups water 2 eggs Salt to taste Preparation • Wash, peel, and chop the tomatoes finely. • Wash and chop the onions. • Wash, peel [...]
Amphibious Porridge
Serves four Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes Ingredients Tropical violet (Asystasia gangetica) shoots, 100 g Rice, 1 cup Fish fillet (codfish, perch, or milk fish), or salted sardines, 100 g Salt, 2 teaspoons Water, 1.5 liter Preparation 1. Rinse and dry tropical violet shoots. Cut into 3-cm pieces, set aside. 2. Rinse [...]
African Vegetable Loaf
Serves six Preparation time: 40 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Ingredients Tender baobab (Adansonia digitata) leaves, 100 g Carrot, 100 g Onion, 200 g Cassava or potato starch, 1 tablespoon Minced meat (beef, chicken, fish, mutton, or pork), 200 g Ground black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon Garlic cloves, 5 Salad oil, 1 tablespoon Salt, 1/2 teaspoon [...]
Rice Ball Bean Soup
Makes 30 rice balls Preparation time: 60 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes Ingredients Tender drumstick (Moringa oleifera) leaves, 75 g Sticky rice flour, 300 g De-hulled mungbean (Vigna radiata), 90 g Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis), 100 g (soaked in cold water overnight) Sugar, 200 g (20 g for mungbean, 180 g for adzuki bean) Water, [...]
Burmese Leaf Soup
Serves two Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Ingredients Ivy gourd (Coccinia grandis) shoots, 150 g Onion, 1 about 200 g Pumpkin, 1 about 300 g Bacon, 4 slices Butter, 10 g Flour, 2 tablespoons Ground black pepper, 1 teaspoon Salt, 1 teaspoon Soup stock (meat, seafood or vegetable), 1 cup Whipping cream, [...]
Swamp Tune Sauce
Serves three Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Ingredients Tender swamp leaf (Limnophila rugosa) shoots, 10 g Red and yellow sweet pepper strips, 10 g each Tomato, 1 about 200 g Water bamboo (Zizania latifolia), 3 (each about 135 g) Mirin (a Japanese seasoning), 1 teaspoon Pickled cucumber sauce, 2/3 tablespoon Salad oil, [...]
Boiled Dumplings
Makes 40 dumplings Preparation time: 60 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Ingredients For the dough Bread flour, 2 1/2 cups Salt, 1/4 teaspoon Water, 1 cup For the filling Ivy gourd (Coccinia grandis) shoots, 100 g Chopped cabbage, 300 g Chopped green onion, 2 tablespoons Minced beef, chicken, mutton, or pork, 300 g Salt, 1 [...]
Bacon Rolls
Makes 20 rolls Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Ingredients Young okra (Abelmoschus esculentus), 20 pods about 12 g each Bacon, 10 slices Preparation 1. Rinse okra pods before blanching in boiling water. Cool and cut to the width of the bacon slices. 2. Cut the bacon slices in half crosswise. 3. Wrap [...]