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Surinamese Mixed Rice (Moksi Alesi) Recipe
by Global Cookbook

Surinamese Mixed Rice (Moksi Alesi)
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  Servings: 1

Ingredients

  • 1 lb Brown rice
  • 1/3 lb Yellow split beans
  • 1 1/2 pt Water, (or possibly a bit more or possibly a bit less...)
  • 1 x Big onion, in small pcs
  • 1 x Tomato
  • 2 x Spoons of tomato paste
  • 1 x Warm pepper
  • 1 x Vegan bouillon cube, (optional, but it ads to the "Surinamese" taste)
  • 1 c. Cubed pumpkin
  • 1 c. White cabbage, coarse cut
  •     Salt, (optional)
  •     Black pepper, (a lot!)

Directions

  1. I adapted a recipe which has its roots in the Afro-Surinamese kitchen, but now is appreciated by all inhabitants. I had to do a lot of adapting, for in the original recipe all what is forbidden in our opionon is used! I cook this recipe as a sundays meal.
  2. The aim is which you make a gravy in that you cook rice, split beans and vegetables. In the end the rice is dry AND tasty. I cook from 1 to 5 on the stove. Then I put sauce and rice in the rice cooker, but perhaps it is for a start easier to finisch the cooking on the stove.
  3. The recipe is not too easy to cook in the beginning. You have to develop the feeling how much gravy you need for your amount of rice. But keep trying, for in the end this recipe will be a favourite, espcially if you have to cook for a party.
  4. Cook the yellow split beans half done. Throw the cook water away.
  5. Simmer the onion a few min, add in the small cut tomatoe and the bouillon cube, simmer about five min. Add in, if neccesary a bit of water.
  6. Add in the half cooked split beans and the tomato paste. Add in the water.
  7. Stir, and simmer another five min.
  8. Add in the pumpkin and cook until pumpkin is half done.
  9. Taste the sauce. Add in black pepper. The sauce should taste rather strong.
  10. Add in the liquid removed rice. The sauce level should be a phalanx above the rice. If necessary, add in some water. Taste the gravy again! Stir, let the sauce cook, and put cabbage and warm pepper on top, and put the pot on the lowest possible gas. (The pepper gives a special flavour)
  11. Simmer for about half an hour. Taste if the rice is nearly done.
  12. Sprinkle if necessary a bit of Warm water over the rice and cook another five min. Take the warm pepper out of the pot and stir the cabbage carefully - with a fork - through the rice. Put the pepper back.
  13. Simmer for another five min. The rice should be dry and tasty.
  14. Take the pot of the stove, take the lid of the pot and leave the rice five min untouched.
  15. Cut the warm pepper in very small pcs (with a fork and knife, so which you do not burn your hands.)
  16. Serve with cucumber, onions and tomatoes in vinegar.