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.
- Carefully remove and serve.
