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Dominican Red Bean Soup
Dominican Red Bean Soup
This soup is more than just a bean soup. It contains smoked pork, plantains, and dumplings; making this quite a filling meal. In the Dominican Republic, this soup is referred to as dumplings, peas and salted pork. Traditionally, smoked pig snout and tails are used as the meat. I used a large ham shank since I wanted more meat to the soup. I also think pig tails are kinda gross. You can substitute smoked turkey if pork isn’t your thing.
Ingredients
- 1 large smoked pork shank
- 1 lb dried kidney beans soaked overnight
- 1 gallon water
- 1 large plantain cubed
- 1 large onion chopped
- 6 garlic cloves minced
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp paprika
- 2 tsp thyme
- 1 tbsp ground turmeric
- 1 tbsp salt
Dumplings
- 3 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 tsp salt
Garnish
- parsley chopped
Instructions
- Add the ham shank in a pot of water. Bring to a boil and simmer for an hour.
- Add the soaked beans to the pot. Simmer for another hour.
- Stir in the onion, garlic, and seasonings. Simmer for 10 minutes.
- While the soup is simmering, mix together the flour, water, and salt. Roll into a dough ball.
- Take out the ham shank. Pull off the meat, chop, and add back into the pot. Pull off small pieces of the dough and drop into the soup. Simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add in the plantains. Simmer for 30 more minutes.
Pumpkin Pecan Pancakes
Pumpkin Pecan Pancakes
There is a weird phenomena in the canned pumpkin world where every recipe under the sun requires 2 cups of pumpkin purée to make a pie. But canned pumpkin has 1 1/2 cups in it. So you have to buy 2 cans and are stuck with an extra cup of the pumpkin purée. What in the fuckity fuck!? This is a great recipe to use up that leftover pumpkin instead of freezing until next thanksgiving. These pancakes are light and fluffy and will make you want to by canned pumpkin on the regular.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp allspice
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 3 tbsp butter melted
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 large eggs beaten
- 3 tbsp maple syrup plus more for serving
- 1/2 cup pecans chopped
- vegetable oil
Instructions
- Mix together the dry ingredients.
- In another bowl, whisk together the pumpkin purée and melted butter. Then whisk in the milk and eggs.
- Whisk the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Stir in the maple syrup and pecans.
- Heat up a tbsp of oil as needed in a nonstick pan or griddle over medium heat. Ladle 1/4 cup of the batter per pancake onto the pan.
- Vook for 2-3 minutes on the first side, then flip and cook for 30 seconds on the other.
Powdered Beef (Carne en Polvo)
Powdered Beef (Carne en Polvo)
Powdered beef is commonly eaten in Colombia as part of a bandeja paisa platter. Flank steak gets marinated, boiled, then pulverized in a food processor until it resembles a powdered form. Carne en polvo is great for little kids who might have a problem chewing pieces of steak. Not me. I was consuming meat at 6 months old like a champion.
Equipment
- food processor
Ingredients
- 1 lb flank steak
- 5 cups watet
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 2 green onions chopped
- 1/2 cup white onion chopped
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Place the flank steak in a storage bag with the garlic, green onions, white onions, cumin, salt, and pepper. Marinate for 24 hours.
- Put the flank steak in a pot of water.
- Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium low. Simmer for an hour.
- Strain the meat. Let cool.
- Cut up the flank into chunks and place in a food processor.
- Process until it is finely shredded.
