Pelau
The one-pot beach lime: pelau — chicken and pigeon peas cooked with rice in coconut milk with brown sugar caramel (the 'burnt' sugar base) — Trinidad's social dish.
What it is
The one-pot beach lime: pelau — chicken and pigeon peas cooked with rice in coconut milk with brown sugar caramel (the 'burnt' sugar base) — Trinidad's social dish. Ingredients: chicken, pigeon peas, rice, coconut milk, brown sugar (for browning), onions, garlic, chadon beni, thyme, carrots, pumpkin, scotch bonnet (whole). Recipe: 1) Burn the sugar to mahogany; brown the chicken in it. 2) Add peas, vegetables and coconut milk. 3) Add rice; steam until it drinks everything. 4) Serve with coleslaw, cucumber and pepper sauce. Serve: at beach limes, cricket and family Sundays. Flavor: caramel-deep, coconut, savoury. History: pelau blends African rice pots, Indian peas and Spanish paella echoes — pure Trinidad creole. See also: Doubles, Callaloo (Trinidad).
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