Jyneelle uses fresh ingredients from Whyfarm to make a delicious steamed fish and pumpkin rice dish as a healthy meal in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Pumpkin Rice
Ingredients
2.5 cups diced pumpkin
2 cups rice
5 cloves of garlic minced
2 springs of thyme
2 pimentoes
2 tsp rouku
1 large onion diced
1/2 pack coconut milk powder
1 cinnamon stick
1 Bay leaf
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
In a large pan saute onions until clear and aromatic
Add in pumpkin, thyme, garlic, pimento, cinnamon and Bay leaf
Stir together and cover the pot and allow the mixture to simmer
When pumpkin seems half cooked add in rice and toast with the rest of the ingredients.
Add in water, rouku and coconut powder and allow to simmer while covered. (check and stir periodically)
When all water is burnt out switch pot off and leave covered for about 10 minutes before serving
Steamed Fish
Tools
Banana leaves (cut and washed)
Twine or string
Ingredients
Fish steaks
Sliced onions
Sliced pimento
Garlic
Ochro
Patchoi (chopped)
Thyme
Shandon benni
Celery
Fish sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
Wash and prepare fish. Season with salt, fish sauce and black pepper
Start with a banana leaf and put some patchoi in the center. Place fish on top and layer on a few pieces of each of the items on top (onion, garlic, shadon benni, celery, thyme, pimento, ochro)
Wrap banana leaf around the fish and vegetables and secure it with a piece of string.
Steam in a steamer or pot with boiling water for 30 minutes approximately.