{"id":1836,"date":"2013-05-14T04:15:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T04:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2013-05-14T05:02:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:02:06","slug":"and-the-answer-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"And The Answer Is…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos from Kitchen Butterfly<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Wow, the overwhelming response from you all is commendable, if you said ‘moinmoin’? Sorry but you got it wrong!! however, a couple of people got it right , it is steamed plantain pudding<\/strong> also called\u00a0Ukwaka<\/strong>\u00a0and other names depending on where you are from. And here’s the recipe courtesy of\u00a0Kitchen Butterfly<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong>Ukwaka can be breakfast food, served with hot, milky corn pap or oats. It could be a snack. Or lunch. Or dinner. Best of all, it is the perfect remedy for overripe plantains<\/span><\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3 overripe plantains, peeled\u00a0 and cut into 2 inch pieces<\/span><\/address>\n
1 small (red) onion<\/span><\/address>\n
1 \u2013 2 fresh chili peppers, to taste<\/span><\/address>\n
2 tablespoons (vegetable\/palm) oil<\/span><\/address>\n
1 and 1\/2 cups water, room temperature<\/span><\/address>\n
1\/2 cup polenta (Polenta is coarsely or finely ground yellow or white cornmeal boiled with water or stock into a porridge and eaten directly or baked, fried or grilled)<\/span><\/address>\n
Salt, to taste<\/span><\/address>\n
1 tablespoon dried, ground crayfish (optional)<\/span><\/address>\n
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To cook in fresh banana leaves<\/span><\/address>\n
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How to<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In a blender or food processor, combine plantains, onion, peppers, oil and water till smooth.\u00a0Essentially, you take extremely sweet plantains, blend them with water, onions and chili peppers, season with some salt and dried crayfish if you wish and then bring them together with a sprinkling of polenta and some vegetable or palm oil. Once the batter is ready, you ladle it into ramekins or gently fold banana leaves into a cone sealing off base and top and then \u2018waterbath\u2019 them (like you do for moinmoin) \u00a0for half an hour or more, till the puddings are firm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pour plantain batter into a bowl and add polenta (and crayfish, if using), stir till well combined and then salt to taste.One critical success factor of this is the balance between sweet, hot and salty. The peppers need to be prominent but not too much to cut through the (otherwise sickening) sweetness of the plantains and that needs to be balanced with a healthy pinch of salt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Using banana leaves, the traditional way, fold and pour batter into each and wrap.\u00a0When your batter is all used up, line the base of a large pan with some banana leaves and stack the banana wraps, first covering the base and then putting the rest on top. Pour in a couple of cups of water \u2013 not to cover the wraps but up to a third of the way up. You could always start out with a little and add more water as necessary. They should be ready after half an hour of cooking on the stovetop.\u00a0When they\u2019re ready, allow to cool for a few minutes and then serve as you will.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yummy.\"Laughing\" If\u00a0any of you tries it, send me an email at info@stephaniedaily.com and tell me how it went.\u00a0Let’s get creative and tell me what you will eat it with it?<\/span><\/p>\n

xoxo<\/span><\/p>\n

SL<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photos from Kitchen Butterfly Wow, the overwhelming response from you all is commendable, if you said ‘moinmoin’? Sorry but you got it wrong!! however, a couple of people got it right , it is steamed plantain pudding also called\u00a0Ukwaka\u00a0and other names depending on where you are from. And here’s the recipe courtesy of\u00a0Kitchen Butterfly.\u00a0Ukwaka can be breakfast food, served with hot, milky corn pap or oats. It could be a snack. Or lunch. Or dinner. Best of all, it is the perfect remedy for overripe plantains Ingredients 3 overripe plantains, peeled\u00a0 and cut into 2 inch pieces 1 small (red) onion 1 \u2013 2 fresh chili peppers, to taste 2 tablespoons (vegetable\/palm) oil 1 and 1\/2 cups water, room temperature 1\/2 cup polenta (Polenta is coarsely or finely ground yellow or white cornmeal boiled with water or stock into a porridge and eaten directly or baked, fried or grilled) Salt, to taste 1 tablespoon dried, ground crayfish (optional) \u00a0 To cook in fresh banana leaves \u00a0 How to In a blender or food processor, combine plantains, onion, peppers, oil and water till smooth.\u00a0Essentially, you take extremely sweet plantains, blend them with water, onions and chili peppers, season with some salt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-stephs-lounge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}