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Why It Works
- This coconut-laced stew might be made with each dried or canned pigeon peas.
This dish is easy to make and may be very delicious with mandazi, or sweet coconut donuts. When the Nimji family lived in Africa, vegetable peddlers went door to door to advertise their freshly shelled pigeon peas. Noorbanu would buy them and make bharazi and mandazi for the family’s breakfast, which is as soon as that they had been traditionally eaten.
Recipe by Noorbanu Nimji, from A Spicy Contactcopyright © 2020 by Noorbanu Nimji and Karen Anderson. Reprinted with permission of TouchWood Editions.
February 2021
Bharazi (Pigeon Peas in Coconut Cream) Recipe
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1 cup dry pigeon peas or 1 (19-ounce; 540ml) can pigeon peas (use black pigeon peas)
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1 tablespoon sunflower oil
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1 tablespoon finely decrease onion
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1/2 cup finely chopped tomato (1 small)
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1 (13-ounce; 394ml) can coconut milk or cream
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1/4 teaspoon Indian chile powder
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1/8 teaspoon turmericnon-compulsory
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1 full chileslit down the edges (jalapeno or serrano)
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1/4 teaspoon garlic paste (non-compulsory)
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1/2 teaspoon inexperienced chile paste and/or sambal oelekor to model
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1 tablespoon lemon juice
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1 tablespoon finely decrease coriander leaves
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Soak the dry pigeon peas in water in a single day then rinse in a variety of modifications of water, drain, then add 2 cups of current water and the peas to a saucepan and boil on extreme until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and put apart.
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Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the onion until gentle gold, then add the tomatoes and cook dinner dinner till mild and mushy.
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Stir throughout the coconut milk or cream, chilli powder, turmeric (if using), full chilli, garlic and chilli paste, and lemon juice collectively and cook dinner dinner on medium-high heat till it entails a boil.
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Stir throughout the cooked (or canned) pigeon peas, lower the heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes.
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Add the coriander leaves and proceed to simmer for an extra 10 minutes.
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Get pleasure from with Mandazi for an amazing breakfast cope with or as a vegetarian meal with coconut rice.
Notes
In case you deliberate to soak dried pigeon peas in a single day, the recipe will come collectively shortly, or you’ll preserve canned pigeon peas obtainable. Though the dish will worth considerably further to make, it’s nonetheless very low-cost.