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Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Boil 1/ pounds of sweet
potatoes. Mash them when they are hot. Add two raw eggs, two spoonfuls of
butter, a cup of milk and some salt. Mix well and cook. Stir constantly.
Prepare in the shape of an omelet. You can add some sugar if you wish.
Sweet Potato Fritters
Boil one pound of sweet
potatoes. Grind them. Add two raw eggs, cinnamon, enough sugar, a
teaspoonful of butter and two or three spoonfuls of flour. Mix everything
well and cook the fritters in very hot oil. The fritters will get blue.
If the fritters lack consistency and break apart as they are fried, add
some more flour.
Boiled Yam
Peel the yam. Wipe it and boil
it in water. Once the yam is soft, add salt. Now cut in thin or thick
round slices, as you prefer. Serve covered with raw mojo which should be
prepared just before it is going to be used.
Mashed Yam
Boil the yam. Mash in a
mortar. Add sour orange juice, salt and pepper. Stir well and cook in an
oil which should have boiled together with mashed garlic and thin onion
slices. When it is ready, add two raw eggs and some milk.
Yam Fritters
Grate one pound of yam and mix
with one raw egg, one mashed clove of garlic, a teaspoonful of parsley and
salt after taste. Prepare a mash. Take the mash by spoonfuls and fry them
in hot oil. The same can be made with malanga which is a root crop similar
to potato but having a whiter and harder mass and is more starchy.
Yucca
Peel the yucca. Cut it in
pieces and boil in a saucepan with abundant water. When the water begins
to boil, drain the yucca well, and add some more fresh water. When the
yucca is soft, add some mojo.
Tamale
Ingredients: Three cups of
ground corn, one cup of water, one pound of meat, three cloves of garlic,
one onion, one red pepper, / cup of tomato sauce, / cup of dry wine, 1/
teaspoonfuls of salt, / teaspoonfuls of pepper.
Preparation: Mix the ground corn with the water
and strain. Fry the pork slightly. Using the lard, fry garlic, onion, red
pepper, tomato and dry wine. Add all this to the corn. Season with salt
and pepper. Put the mixture of corn and pork in corn husks and wrap it.
Cook in boiling water for one hour. You can prepare up to eight tamales
with these ingredients.
Tamale Casserole
Ingredients: One pound of pork,
two cloves of garlic, green lemon juice, / cup of oil, one onion, one red
pepper, / cup of tomato juice, / cup of dry wine, two cups of ground corn,
three cups of water, one teaspoonful of salt, / spoonful of pepper.
Preparation: Cut the pork in pieces and add
garlic and lemon. Fry the pork slightly. Add some oil to the lard you get
from the fried pork, and fry onion, red pepper, tomato and dry wine. Mix
the corn with the water. Strain and add the pork and the sauce that you
fried. Cook for one hour approximately. Stir occasionally. Season with
salt and pepper. You can prepare up to four servings with these
ingredients.
Fufu of Green Plantain
Boil four green plantains and
mash them in a mortar with oil or lard. Make balls. Prepare a sauce with
lard or oil, abundant sliced onion, mashed garlic, tomatoes, red pepper
and slices of ham. Once this mojo sauce is well fried, add some broth and
season with salt and pepper. Let it boil for a few minutes. Strain and add
ground roasted sesame with some flour so that the sauce curdles. Stir well
with a wooden spoon to avoid the sauce from darkening. Put the plantain
balls in a fountain or dish and cover them with the sauce.
Corn Flour Fritters
In abundant water cook sugar
after taste, cinnamon and a bit of salt until the corn flour is compact.
Let it cool and add two raw eggs, a teaspoonful of butter and flour. Make
little balls with this mash and put pieces of sesame around them. Fry the
mash balls in hot oil or cook them in the oven.
Corn Flour with Crabs
Boil the crabs in water. Rinse
them. Put them in a mojo made with oil or lard, onion, garlic, tomato, red
pepper and parsley. Once all this is fried, add corn flour and stir for a
while so that it mix with the mojo completely. Now add abundant water and
season with salt and pepper. Stir. Once it begins to curdle, leave it in
low fire until it dries well.
Corn Flour with Pork
Cut the pork meat into small
pieces. Saute it in oil or pork fat. Remove the meat and saute some
crushed cloves of garlic, chopped onion, four or five tomatoes, celery and
green or red pepper. Add the pork meat and the corn flour. Cover them with
enough water. Add salt and cook until it start to become thick. Set the
flame slow until it dries.
Corn Flour with Tomato Mojo
Put one mashed clove of garlic
in oil or hot lard. Remove it before it gets burnt. Add the corn flour.
Add water enough to cook. Season with salt and stir occasionally. Cook on
low fire. When it begins to dry, add some more lard or oil. Make abundant
tomato mojo with sliced onion, mashed garlic, red pepper and garlic. Put
this mojo on the flour when you serve it.
Green Corn Stew
Ingredients: Four ounces of
ham, three spoonfuls of oil, one onion, one large red pepper, three cloves
of garlic, four ounces of tomato sauce, one pork sausage, two teaspoonfuls
of dry wine, one teaspoonful of vinegar, salt and pepper after taste, 16
ounces of water, eight ounces of potatoes cut in small dices, eight ounces
of pumpkin cut in small dices, four ears of fresh corn.
Preparation: Cut the ham in small pieces and
fry them in oil with sliced onion, red pepper and garlic. Add the tomato
sauce, round slices of pork sausage, the water and the potatoes. Season
with salt and pepper. Once the potatoes are soft, add the pumpkin and the
ears of corn cut in thin round slices or the kernels shaken out of the
ears. Cook for about thirty more minutes. It provides 6 rations.
Creole Funche
Put a saucepan with water and
salt on the fire. Add corn flour and boil until it is cooked. In a frying
pan, fry some mashed garlic in lard or oil. Mix with the flour which is
left on the fire till it is ready.
Salty Corn Flour Fritters
Cook the corn flour in abundant
water with salt until it is hard and dry. Let it cool and add two raw
eggs, a teaspoonful of butter and a spoonful of flour. Mix well. Take the
mash by spoonfuls and put them in hot oil. These are measures for one
pound of corn flour.
Corn Flour Tortilla
Simmer the corn flour in water
and drain well. For three large spoonfuls of flour, pour 1/ large spoonful
of milk and a bit of anise, a bit of salt, sugar after taste, green lemon
rind and a piece of cinnamon. Mix well and put it on the fire. Stir
constantly with a wooden spoon until it has the consistency of a mash.
Then remove from the fire and knead with two spoonfuls of butter, one
spoonful of grated cheese and four raw eggs. Using the mass, make the
tortillas and fry them in hot oil. Put some toasted sesame on them.
Havana Corn Bread
Blend two cups of sugar and
eight egg yolks well. Add four cups of wheat flour, two cups of fine corn
flour, two cups of milk, two cups of melted lard, two spoonfuls of butter,
half a spoonful of sodium bicarbonate dissolved in four teaspoonfuls of
dry wine, and nutmeg gratings. Then add eight whites of eggs in the form
of meringue. Mix well. Put in a mold covered with paper. Put in the oven.
Roasted Green Plantain
Peel the plantains. Without
cutting them put them on ashes until they are well roasted. Use a knife to
scrape the ashes and add some salt. Put the plantains in a fountain and
pour some oil and garlic. This dish should be prepared just before it is
going to be served. Otherwise the plantains harden too much. This was the
way our grandparents usually used. They had their charcoal cookers. At
present the roasted green plantains are prepared in an oven, of course.
Boiled Corn Flour
In a saucepan pour water, salt
and oil. Add corn flour after you wash it well. Cook on low fire. Stir
slowly and constantly so that the flour does not burn. As it begins to
dry, add some more oil.
Corn Flour with Mojo
In oil or lard fry slight
abundant sliced onion, mashed garlic, parsley, red pepper and tomato. Wash
the corn flour and pour it in the mojo. Stir well and add enough water to
cook. Season with salt. As the flour begins to dry, add some more oil or
lard. Cook on low fire until the flour is completely dry.
Creole Okra
For the preparation of this
dish, you should select green okra, otherwise the taste would be too bad.
Wash and wipe the green okra, Cut the extremes and slice it in round
pieces. The okra should not get wet as it is sliced. Put the slices in
water with lemon juice. Keep them in that water until the moment of
cooking. Take a piece of tasajo and remove the salt. Add some pork bones
and put the tasajo and onion in a mojo sauce of oil with mashed garlic,
sliced onion, four or five tomatoes cut to pieces and sliced ham. When
this mojo is well cooked, add the okra. Stir with a wooden spoon and add
enough broth. When it is almost cooked, add some roasted sesame. Season
with salt and pepper and leave on fire until it curdles well. In the last
moment, add balls of boiled yam or malanga, potatoes, green or not
completely ripe plantains. To prepare the balls, you should boil the
ingredients and mash them in a mortar with some oil. When the ingredients
are cool, make the balls. The sesame should be mashed in the mortar.
Okra Stew
Wash and wipe the green okra.
Cut the extremes and slice it in round pieces. The okra should not get wet
as it is sliced. Put the slices in water with lemon juice. Keep them in
that water until the moment of cooking a frying pan put oil, onion,
garlic, tomato, red pepper, ham and pork cut in slices and pieces of
chicken or fish as you prefer. When all this is well fried, add enough
water and the okra cut in round slices. Boil and season with salt and
pepper and add mashed saffron, cumin and some garlic. Keep on the fire and
add ground roasted sesame. Almost at the moment of serving, add yam or
plantains balls (see recipe). To make sure that the plantain softens well,
cut them in halves before boiling in water, salt and vinegar. Peel after
boiling. If you use fish in this dish, add it at the last moment, already
fried, so that the fish does not lose its consistency.
Delicious Okra Stew
In a saucepan pour three or
four spoonfuls of oil. Fry slightly / pound of pork which you should cut
in small pieces. When it is rather cooked, add and onion cut in thin
slices, four tomatoes, one red pepper, one clove of garlic, parsley and
two ham slices cut in small pieces. Once the mojo (sauce) and the meat are
well cooked, add the okra cut in round slices (see instructions to cut the
okra in the previous recipe). Let it cook for a while so that the okra
tastes after the mojo. Add as much broth as necessary to soften the okra.
Season with salt and pepper. When you are about to finish, add one
spoonful of roasted sesame. Add also balls of green or not completely ripe
plantain, yam or malanga. To prepare the balls follow the instructions in
previous recipes. Add the balls to the stew in the last moment. This dish
is rich in sauce.
Okra Stew with Chicken
Ingredients: 2/ ounces of oil,
one chicken of about 2/ pounds, one onion, one large red pepper, two
cloves of garlic, salt and pepper after taste, one can of tomato sauce, 2/
ounces of vinegar. Eight ounces of chicken broth, 16 ounces of dry wine,
three cups of water, one pound of okra, two or three not completely ripe
plantains (the ones known as macho).
Preparation: In hot oil fry slightly the
chicken, the onion, red pepper and the mashed garlic. Add salt, pepper,
tomato sauce, vinegar, broth and dry wine. When the chicken is cooked, add
the okra with the water and the lemon juice. Keep on the fire until the
okra is soft. Now add plantain balls which you made after boiling and
mashing the plantains. Yields 6 rations.
Delicious Pumpkin
Use a yellow pumpkin. Peel it
and remove the seeds. Grind the pumpkin. Mix four or five spoonfuls of oil
with one spoonful of lard and fry slightly a big onion cut in thin slices
and three mashed cloves of garlic. Put the pumpkin in this sofrito (sauce)
and stir constantly. When it is cooked, add salt and pepper and bread
crumb so that the pumpkin gets dry.
Pumpkin Stew
Peel the pumpkin. Remove the
seeds. Wash well. Cut in small square pieces and cook in water and salt.
Remove the water when the pumpkin is almost soft. In a frying pan, put
oil, mashed garlic, sliced onion and parsley. Now add the pumpkin and stir
in that sauce. Add some water. Mix three egg yolks in a cup of milk. Add
to the pumpkin and stir. Do not let it boil. Season with salt, pepper and
nutmeg.
Roast Pumpkin
Select a small pumpkin. Cut it
in two halves and remove the seeds. In the cavity of each half put some
oil, mashed garlic, well cut parsley, one spoonful of vinegar and salt and
pepper to taste. Put in the oven. Serve in a bowl with hard-boiled eggs
and bechamel sauce (see recipe).
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