January 20, 2008: Caribbean Rice Dessert

last post, the Caribbean-themed wraps nosotros enjoyed for dinner were chosen to jibe this Caribbean Area rice dessert. The dessert is January's featured recipe inwards our World In Your Kitchen 2008 calendar. I must acknowledge that I'm non a large fan of rice desserts (this one excepted) as well as the Caribbean Area handling didn't create much to sway me. I liked the sugariness buttered nuts as well as coconut, but at that topographic point merely wasn't plenty of them! The mixture was fairly dry out as well as bland, but perked upwardly amongst a few cherries on top. (Not solely are they inwards season, but a combat of network research revealed them to live appropriate to the theme.)

Here are 3 ways that I mightiness alteration the recipe for futurity use:

1. Halve the total of rice. This'll upwardly the flavour amongst a greater density of sweet, buttery fruit as well as nuts.

2. Fresh fruit on the side. I already sorted this out the offset fourth dimension around, as well as I intend it's essential.
3. Use the rice every bit a savoury side. Retaining the master proportions of rice to flavourings, this is a cute (if less healthy) choice to manifestly rice, much similar a peshwari naan. In fact, nosotros poured a dhal over the 2d one-half of the rice as well as couldn't larn plenty of it. It's neither Caribbean Area nor Indian, but it's good.

Caribbean rice dessert

225g rice
6 brazil nuts, chopped
1 tablespoon sultanas
1/2 - 1 teaspoon dark-brown sugar
1 tablespoon butter or margarine

2 tablespoons desiccated coconut

In a saucepan, embrace the rice amongst hot H2O as well as add together one-half the coconut. Bring to the boil, as well as then plough downwards the estrus as well as railroad train for 10-15 minutes until done. Drain the rice.

In a large pan, melt the butter. Fry the nuts, sultanas, saccharide as well as remaining kokosnoot for a duo of minutes, until golden as well as fragrant. Add the drained rice, combine well, as well as serve.

February 3, 2008: Khatti Mithi Masoor Dal Summation Leeks Inwards Chickpea Flour Amongst Sweetness Ruby Pepper

Oxfam calendar in addition to a vegie dish from Mridula Baljekar's trusty low-fat Indian vegetarian cookbook.

The dal was overnice in addition to unproblematic in addition to was meant to hold upward sour, sweetness in addition to hot. To hold upward honest it was to a greater extent than oft than non sour (tamarind puree) in addition to tangy (ginger), but that's in all likelihood to a greater extent than oft than non due to my lax measurements. Despite non quite measuring upward on the 'hot' front, this was ane of the ameliorate dal recipes we've come upward across - mayhap non quite upward to these standards, but thence there's no tin post away of kokosnoot milk inwards this ane to produce total us upward amongst creamy, obese goodness. Anyway, this was basically all close the ginger in addition to tamarind flavours, in addition to from my indicate of view, that tin post away alone hold upward a skillful thing.

The minute dish for the nighttime was much to a greater extent than complicated. While I was getting all the ingredients together, I realised I had no existent thought of what this dish was fifty-fifty supposed to await like, permit lonely how it would taste. Indeed, fifty-fifty after I'd got close three-quarters of the agency through preparing this, I thought it was going to hold upward a consummate failure. The matter to recall is: leeks shrink. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 wok alluvion amongst leeky bits in addition to looking pretty uninspiring, chop-chop became a dense in addition to tasty mush of leek amongst generous splashes of capsicum-provided colouring cloth livening things up. Lucky. It's difficult to depict how this turned out, it was sort of chewy in addition to total of spicy flavours, amongst the leek season notable but non every bit overpowering every bit I'd feared. It worked actually good every bit a side to the dal, but mightiness hold upward a fighting much on its own.

It's worth noting that it industrial plant really, actually good every bit filling inwards a pastry, every bit Cindy demonstrated a few days later.

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