Here we come to letter H and for H i have chosen Haiti . Haiti is also called as Republic of haiti is a Caribbean country. People here speak French and haitian creole. The Haitian style of cooking is greatly influenced by French , african, spanich and middle eastern. I don’t know more about the cuisine but I chose most popular dishes from this country, the national dish of Haiti rice and beans and a coconut jello pudding called Blancmange. Balancmange is coconut pudding dish which is jelly like I wanted to make them for this country. The rice and bean has a addition of coconut to it and I love the taste of this rice bean. I always love eating burritos from chipotle which usually wrapped with rice and beans which is lemon flavored and i felt the haiti rice and beans are almost similar but the addition coconut makes it all different. For the second dish I chose this coconut jelly you might call this super simple to make and I loved the coconut flavored jelly a lot . Traditionally they do add evaporated milk too even the jelly But I have made it with only coconut milk. I adapted the coconut jello recipe from global table adventurer . Its been an wonderful journey doing marathon till now we am so learning about many countries I never knew exists in map .. Will come up the next letter I tomorrow.So with no further ado lets move on to the recipes.
Diri Kole Ak Pwa ( Rice and Beans with coconut milk)
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Rice varieties
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15 mins
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15 mins
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Coconut Milk – 1 cup ( thick)- In a pan heat oil , add cloves, cinnamon stick.
- Then add garlic paste , hot peppers and saute.
- Add onion and saute them till translucent.
- Add the cooked beans with little vegetable stock or the stock in which the beans are cooked.
- Add thyme, pepper pd,salt and coconut milk.
- Cook them till the till the excess moisture evaporates and the curry comes together.
- Mix in cooked Basmati rice in the prepared beans curry and serve them hot.
- I squeezed lemon in the end to get a little tanginess But traditionally no lemon is added.
Blancmange (Haitian Coconut Jello )
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4-5 hr
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IngredientsAgar agar pd – 1 tbsp
- In a sauce pan put coconut milk, condensed milk and simmer it for a while.
- Once it boils add the agar agar pd and mix well.
- Make sure there is no lump formation so keep on stiring for 5 mins more.
- Add vanilla extract.
- You can chopped fruits after they cool a bit and transfer them to the mold or a bowl.
- If you adding no fruit them just transfer them to to the mold and cool them a bit before you can refrigerator.
- Refrigerate for 4-5 hours or till it sets well.
- I garnished them with cocoa pd which is again optional.
Wow your both the dishes seem to so sinful..very nicely done Manjula..
I love the coconut jello pudding. I did something similar to this from Burmese cuisine long back. And the rice and beans sound flavourful..
i am in love with this beautiful Haitian cuisines so beautifully presented too
I could see your passion towards cooking by seeing posts like these. Both the dishes are so good.
Both the recipes sounds so good… especially that jello would have tasted so good…
Both rice and beans and jello are so well made and presented. Nice choice
wow love the pudding and rice .Both with coconut milk ,I cant think of it on the same day …Great going manju .Visit my place when u find time (i mean my house )we live nearby na .
Lovely clicks. Rice is perfectly cooked and the beans are popping out of that yellow colored rice. Coconut jelly looks very tempting and you presented it very well. Coconut jelly looks just wonderful in that blue plate garnished with cocoa
Jello…mouthwatering !! gud 2 know !!
Beans rice sounds like our masala rice na, that blancmange looks a light dessert after a heavy meal. Beautiful recipe choices.
Wow! the pudding is looking so tempting..sinful!!
Both the dishes look so good Manjula and very well presented…
The rice can be a quick meal if using canned beans. And that pudding looks tempting.
Rice and pudding both are looking delicious .
Both the dishes look great…those beans look wonderful in the rice and the pudding…wow.
I grew up with this rice and peas almost every day except for fat concerns my parents made it with water mostly and only with coconut milk on special days. however you kept it so authentic by keeping with the spices traditionally used.
However, never had this coconut pudding – must ask my 100% Haitian cousins about it. Yours looks so good.
That coconut pudding is calling my name manjula!!! Looks super tempting! Love the beans & rice too but that pudding is the winner.
Manjula you are not serving this to Priya alone! I want some of this too.