A family meal in Haiti is not necessarily taken together apart on
special occasions (wedding, celebration, baptism ...), when the meal is served
the person who served the meal draws the dish of each person and calls this one
to come and get it back. After being served you go and eat at the place you
want.
Haitian recipe
Haitian
rice hummmm ... What a delight! Among Haitians, they call this recipe
"diri ak pwa" (rice with red kidney beans). This rice is by far the
kind that I prefer; it is so tasty that I sometimes eat it without side dishes.
Haitians will tell you, rice "chèch" (or dry rice which means rice
cooked with red kidney beans with no meat or fish).
Note
that this recipe is undeniably a must for the Haitian people. I would even go
so far as to say that a Haitian recipe site without the recipe on the picture
above is not complete.
There
are several kinds of Haitian preparation for rice with peas, rice can be done
with a variety of different peas; the cooking process is mainly the same except
for the cooking time of the different peas (depending on the type of pea, some
will have to be boiled less or longer).
·
Rice with green
peas, rice with peas of Lima, rice with black
peas, rice with red pea
Haitian vegetable recipe
The
Haitian vegetable recipe is a traditional dish that is by far my favorite. Seriously,
I could eat it every day without ever getting bored.
I confess that at first glance, this pile of
boiled and crushed vegetables looks more like a kind of "vegetable
meal" not very beautiful to watch, but just take a bite before falling
under its charm.
The
taste of just seasoned vegetables, whether with beans and rice, white rice,
boiled bananas, fried plantain bananas or even simple potatoes, makes this
recipe one of the most versatile dishes in Haitian cuisine.
As
the name suggests, vegetables are the basis of this recipe. Just like the
"soup joumou"( pumpkin soup), one finds many ways to prepare the
Haitian vegetables as it is homemade
cooking, but it remains nonetheless the cabbage and the eggplant remain
the two essential basic elements in Haitian cooking.
Emmanuella F