Bharazi (Pigeon Peas in Coconut Cream) Recipe

Why It Works

  • This coconut-laced stew might be made with each dried or canned pigeon peas.

This dish is straightforward to make and is especially delicious with mandazi, or sweet coconut donuts. When the Nimji family lived in Africa, vegetable peddlers went door to door to advertise their freshly shelled pigeon peas. Noorbanu would buy them and make bharazi and mandazi for the family’s breakfast, which is as soon as they’ve been traditionally eaten.

Recipe by Noorbanu Nimji, from A Spicy Contactcopyright © 2020 by Noorbanu Nimji and Karen Anderson. Reprinted with permission of TouchWood Editions.

February 2021

Bharazi (Pigeon Peas in Coconut Cream) Recipe


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  • 1 cup dry pigeon peas or 1 (19-ounce; 540ml) can pigeon peas (use black pigeon peas)

  • 1 tablespoon sunflower oil

  • 1 tablespoon finely decrease onion

  • 1/2 cup finely chopped tomato (1 small)

  • 1 (13-ounce; 394ml) can coconut milk or cream

  • 1/4 teaspoon Indian chile powder

  • 1/8 teaspoon turmericnon-compulsory

  • 1 full chileslit down the edges (jalapeno or serrano)

  • 1/4 teaspoon garlic paste (non-compulsory)

  • 1/2 teaspoon inexperienced chile paste and/or sambal oelekor to type

  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice

  • 1 tablespoon finely decrease coriander leaves

  1. Soak the dry pigeon peas in water in a single day then rinse in numerous changes of water, drain, then add 2 cups of latest water and the peas to a saucepan and boil on extreme until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and put apart.

  2. Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the onion until mild gold, then add the tomatoes and put together dinner till comfy and mushy.

  3. Stir inside the coconut milk or cream, chilli powder, turmeric (if using), full chilli, garlic and chilli paste, and lemon juice collectively and put together dinner on medium-high heat till it entails a boil.

  4. Stir inside the cooked (or canned) pigeon peas, lower the heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes.

  5. Add the coriander leaves and proceed to simmer for a further 10 minutes.

  6. Have the benefit of with Mandazi for an amazing breakfast cope with or as a vegetarian meal with coconut rice.

Notes

Do you have to be mindful to soak dried pigeon peas in a single day, the recipe will come collectively shortly, otherwise you probably can protect canned pigeon peas obtainable. Though the dish will worth a bit further to make, it’s nonetheless very low-cost.

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