Pat's Jamaican Ital Stew
Source of Recipe
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Recipe Introduction
Ital stews are devoid of meat and salt
List of Ingredients
* I cup kidney beans
* 4 quarts water/coconut cream (or use coconut milk, i.e., grated coconut blended with water and strained, reserving milk)
* dumplings (dough made with 1 cup flour & water and rolled in strips)
* scallion
* thyme
* onions
* Scotch bonnet pepper ( hot )
Recipe
1) Cook kidney beans in water or coconut milk until soft.
2) Add dumplings, scallions and thyme - cook until dumplings are done and liquid is thickened.
3) Add whole pepper about 15 minutes before end of cooking time. (Add some salt to taste - if you don't want it to be strictly ital)
Serve over white rice.
You can substitute kidney beans with pigeon or lentil peas or use chick pea and curry and other spices like ginger, nutmeg, turmeric, etc. for variation in taste).
Serves 4
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