I cannot believe it's been almost two years since I posted. I have to admit I have kind of missed it. Hopefully I can keep going this time. I'll start out with another dish that Axel picked from ur bowl of countries. Of course he picked one I knew pretty much nothing about East Timor. After some serious googling we found one recipe that we could both agree on and that seemed easy enough to make: Batar Da'an. The ingredients were pretty straight forward, corn, dried mung beans, butternut squash, water, onions, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper.
I couldn't find mung bens and figured any bean would do so I went with dried Pinto beans. We soaked the beans over night in cold water and then we boiled them for about 15 minutes. My lil helper diced the veggies.
We sautéed the onions and garlic in olive oil for about 5 minutes. Then we simply added the rest of the ingredients. The butternut squash, corn, beans and water.
We cooked it for about 15-20 minutes, until the liquid reduced to a minimum. Season with salt and pepper and serve over rice.
I have to say that it tasted better than I thought. Axel did not quite agree s I had lunch for quite a while. I am still happy he is open to trying new foods :) An cooking together is so much fun!
Ingredients:
1lb of corn (fresh or frozen)
1/2 lb dried mung beans
2lbs of squash (or pumpkin or butternut squash) peeled and diced
4 cups of water
2 onions, diced
8 cloves of garlic, minced
3 Tbs olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Recipe found on www.196flavos.com
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