Mmmm, this is a great recipe from Jamie Oliver's The Naked Chef Takes Off cookbook. It's a hearty and satisfying stew of beef, yams, squash, carrots, okra and coconut milk, topped with little, heavenly cornmeal dumplings. So good! The downside is that it takes a LONG time to make. Lots of chopping, and then the cooktime is fairly long. So it really is for a Saturday, or some other day when you have time to spare.
So if this recipe is so darn good, why is it a recipe in progress? Well, it calls for two tablespoons of coriander seeds. It didn't say to crush them or anything, so I put them in whole. So it was full of hard little coriander seeds, lots of them. Ben voiced a concern about possible coriander poisoning. I think next time I would definitely crush the seeds first! And maybe try putting a little less in.
The other thing I would change is the dumplings. They are great, but the recipe only made five of them, while the recipe is supposed to serve six to eight. Who wants a soup with no dumpling? It's the best part of the whole thing! I would double the recipe, so everyone gets two dumplings per bowl!
Unfortunately, my photographer was sleeping when dinner was ready. So I had to take my own picture, and it doesn't really do the soup justice. But believe me, this soup is good! As you can see, I only had one sad dumpling. For shame, Mr. Oliver. For shame.
-Kristin
This soup was really good (I had leftovers, not fresh) and I didn't even put a dumpling in mine! I second the coriander seed thing. I had to pick around them because I didn't like their taste. I think crushed up they would be fine though.
- Megan Leigh
2 comments:
If Megan was satisfied that means it must have been really, really good. Corriander poisoning and all!
I hate when recipes surprise you and take forever. By that time I can't enjoy eating it and have to wait till the next day to see if it is good.
Jamie is always putting spices in this little thing that he shakes really hard and it pulverizes them. I suppose he thinks everyone has one and does this on a daily basis. It looks like a cool little tool, plus you don't have to squash them by hand in the mortar in pestal.
Uggggh coconut milk! It ruins EVERYTHING. I hate it. I try to like it because everyone says you can't taste it but I can!!!! The rest of the recipe sounded great though!
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