Elite life
Seychelles (Seychelles Recipes)
Ingredients:
1 medium-sized chicken cut into small pieces
3 garlic cloves, crushed
2 tbsp Quatre Epices
1 tbsp saffron
2 tbsp curry powder
salt and black pepper to taste
200g potatoes, peeled and quartered
cinnamon leaves, roughly chopped
250ml coconut milk
2 tbsp oil
1 tsp crushed ginger
Cooking Instructions:
Boil the chicken in water spiced with quatre epices, salt and black pepper for 10 minutes. Remove the chicken from the water and place in a pan with 2 tbsp oil. Add the crushed spices, cinnamon leaves and curry powder and fry over low heat for 5 minutes. Add the coconut milk and potatoes and leave to simmer for 20 minutes. Cook for a further 20 minutes, until fairly dry. Adjust the seasonings and serve with rice.
Ingredients:
1 x 2 kg chicken cut into serving pieces
350 g mandarin orange segments
120 ml mandarin orange juice
120 ml chicken broth
2 tbsp sliced almonds
1 tbsp raisins
1 tbsp tamarind paste
1 tbsp Seychelles curry paste
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp thyme leaves
3 tbsp mango chutney
Salt and black pepper to taste
Cooking Instructions:
Arrange the chicken pieces (except the breast) in a baking pan, mix the chicken stock and orange juice together and mix with the chutney (chop this if the mango pieces are large). Add the almonds, raisins, curry, tamarind paste, cinnamon and thyme and pour over the chicken. Place in an oven pre-heated to 200°C and bake for 25 minutes. Take out the pan, add the breasts and orange segments then bake for about a further 40 minutes. Baste often with the pan juices a this stage and add a little water if the mix becomes too dry. Season with salt and pepper and serve on a bed of rice.
Ingredients:
120 g butter
1 tbsp sunflower oil
2 large onions, diced
5 garlic cloves, crushed
3 cm root ginger, grated
2 medium sweet potatoes, cubed (the orange variety)
4 carrots, cubed
1 butternut squash, peeled and cubed
400 g chinese leaf, shredded
Handful of flat-leaf parsley, shredded
Small handful of thyme, chopped
400 ml can coconut milk
Salt and black pepper, to taste
1 tbsp Seychelles curry paste
2 plantains
Cooking Instructions:
Melt the butter in a large pan and add the oil. Fry the onion, ginger and garlic until soft then add the curry paste and stir. Now add the sweet potato, carrot and butternut squash. Stir the vegetables until well coated with the spice mix. Add just enough water to cover the vegetables, bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cook until the vegetables just begin to soften. Add the chinese leaf, parsley, thyme and coconut milk. Cook gently for a further 10 minutes, ensuring that the coconut milk does not boil and split. Whilst the curry is simmering peel and slice the plantains then fry in hot oil until just crunchy on the outside. Sprinkle with salt and serve with the curry.
Ingredients:
1 vanilla pod, split
1 tsp ground nutmeg
600ml coconut milk
6 cinnamon leaves or 3 cinnamon sticks
3 large, ripe, plantains
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
Cooking Instructions:
Peel the plantains, cut in half and then half again lengthwise. Place the cinnamon leaves or sticks in the bottom of a pan. Place the cut plantains on top (with the cut side uppermost) then sprinkle the sugr, salt and nutmeg powder on top. Add the split vanilla pod then cover with the coconut milk. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium and cook for a further 35 minutes. Arrange on a plate and serve.
Ingredients:
10 curry leaves
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp finely-chopped chillies
1 tsp ground allspice
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp ground turmeric
2 tsp ground coriander
1 chilli
2 cloves garlic
1 tsp grated nutmeg
Cooking Instructions:
Add all the ingredients to a pestle and mortar and pound together. Add a little water to form a paste an store in an air-tight jar in the fridge.
Ingredients:
900 g snapper
2 tbsp sunflower oil
2 onions, chopped
2 tbsp Seychelles curry paste
1/2 tsp ground turmeric
2 garlic cloves, chopped
2 cm piece ginger, chopped
3 tbsp tamarind water
leaves from 2 sprigs thyme
1/2 tsp star anise
450 ml fish stock
Salt and black pepper
Cooking Instructions:
Cut the fish into bite-sized pieces and season generously with salt and black pepper. Meanwhile heat the oil in a heavy pan and fry the onion until golden. Stir-in the curry paste and turmeric and fry gently. Add the fish and all the remaining ingredients. Bring the mix to a simmer and cook for abut 10 minutes or until the fish is ready. Serve on a bed of rice.
Ingredients:
1.5 kg fresh tuna steaks
3 tbsp sunflower oil
1 onion, thinly sliced
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 1/2 tsp freshly-grated ginger
3 chillies, sliced
1 tsp ground cumin (safran)
1/2 tsp ground cardamom seeds
400 ml coconut milk
A few curry leaves
Cooking Instructions:
Cube the fish and fry gently in the oil until browned. Take off the heat and reserve. In another pan add the garlic, ginger, chilli and cumin and fry briefly. Add the coconut milk and bring to a simmer than add the tuna and season with salt and black pepper. Add the cardamom seeds and curry leaves then allow to simmer, covered, for 10 minutes. Remove the lid and cook for a few more minutes, until the sauce thickens. Return the fish to the pan and allow to heat through then serve immediately with rice.
