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Pastel de papas
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Chicken yassa (Gambia style)
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- 8 MEDIUM SIZE POTATOES, peeled
and cooked
- 2 TBSP BUTTER
- 2 EGGS
- 1 ONION, chopped
- 2 CLOVES GARLIC, chopped
- 250 GRAM MINCED BEEF
- 2 TOMATOES, cubed
- 2 TBSP TOMATO PUREE
- 50 GRAM CHEESE, grated
- HANDFUL PARSLEY, cut
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- 500 GRAM CHICKEN BREAST
- 2 ONIONS, chopped
- 3 BAY LEAVES
- 1 LEMON
- 2 GREEN PEPPERS
- 1 TOMATO, sliced
- 1 CUP CHICKEN STOCK
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Puree the potatoes with the butter and the eggs.
Stir fry the onion with the garlic 5 minutes. Add the minced beef and
stir fry 10 minutes more. Add the tomatoes, tomato puree, cheese and
parsley. Put half of the potato puree in a greased baking pan. Cover
with the minced beef mixture and finish off with the other half of the
potato puree. Bake the dish half an hour at 180 degrees
Celsius.
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Stir fry the onions
and peppers 5 minutes; add the chicken and stir fry 5 minutes more.
Cut the lemon in halves, slice one half and press the juice out of the
other. Add the lemon juice to the chicken, as well as the chicken stock,
the bay leaves and pepper and salt to taste. Bring this to the boil
and simmer for 15 minutes. Decorate with tomato and lemon slices.
Click for a recipe
of yassa chicken from Senegal.
Gambia in 1965 became independent
of
Great Britain, on the 18th of
February and on 24
April 1971, the Republic was declared. The Gambia has also
been occupied by
Portugal, all mainly because of slave trade. Click on
culinary calendar for more links between cooking and historical
events.
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