Recipe Photo

African Vegetable Stew

A spicy vegetable stew - easy to make. Some find that the flavors of the vegetables don't stand out unless you put in a lot of tabasco. But not everyone likes it hot. Just add enough to make the stew seem spicy to you.

Yields:6 servings
Rating: ****
Read Reviews | Rate this Recipe
Recipe Cooking TimePreparation15 minutes
Cooking30 minutes
Ready In45 minutes

Ingredients

1 large onion
1 bunch swiss chard
1 can chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
1/2 cup raisins, seedless
1/2 cup rice raw
2 each sweet potatoes, or yams also know as sweet potatoes
1 clove garlic
1 x salt to taste
1 x black pepper to taste
1 x red hot pepper sauce (eg. Tabasco) to taste

Directions

Fry onion, garlic and white stems of chard until barely limp. Add chopped greens and fry a bit.

Either peel the yams or scrub them well with a vegetable brush, then slice them into thick slices. Add garbanzos, raisins, yams, tomatoes, salt and pepper. Cook a couple of minutes.

Make a well in the center of the mixture in the pot. Put the rice in the well and pat it down until it's wet. Cover and cook until rice is done, about 25 minutes. Add Tabasco sauce to taste.

NOTES:

A spicy vegetable stew - easy to make.

Some find that the flavors of the vegetables don't stand out unless you put in a lot of Tabasco®. But not everyone likes it hot. Just add enough to make the stew seem spicy to you.

Save This Page

del.icio.us		 Bookmark and Share
Niyati

Member Review

***

Anticuchos

it may be to my personal taste, i used chilli peppers instead of jalepenos and it was still overly spicy. so just be careful. the spicy drown out most of the flavour

Reviewed by Niyati

 
Recipe Photo