Goan Recipes

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Sannas ~ The Goan Idli Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:07 AM PDT Sannas complement most goan dishes, the fluffy rice cakes that go amazingly well with the pork vindaloo and sorpotel. Although the traditional Sannas have toddy as an ingredient, due to the lack of availability and for the sake of convenience we have Sannas without toddy. Goa rice is preferred to get the right texture and color of the Sannas or it will end up looking like Idlis. Ingredients :- 2 Cups Raw Goa Rice (Can make with normal rice as well.) 1 Tablespoon Fresh Yeast OR 1 ½ Tablespoon (leveled) Yeast Granules ½ Grated Coconut 2 to 3 Tablespoons Sugar 2 Teaspoons Salt Method: Wash the rice and put it in a container Soak the rice overnight The next day you can start off with getting the yeast ready by addingg the yeast and a teaspoon of sugar in a small vessel. To activate the yeast, add ½ cup warm water Mix it up and keep covered for 10 to 15 minutes till the mixture ferments. While the yeast is getting nice and bubbly, lets proceed with the rice. Strain and grind the soaked rice with grated coconut. Add the remaining sugar to the coconut and rice mix, time to blend it all together. Add a wee bit of water, not much at all, if you seem to have a bit of difficulty with the grinding and voila, your blending is done. Pour the mixture in a container and lets get back to the yeast. Your yeast should look frothy like the picture below. Give the yeast mixture a stir. And then add it to the blended rice, coconut and sugar. Once that's done add the salt and mix it up well. Keep the mixture covered for 2 hours, till it rises. Your Sanna mixture is ready when it begins to look like this. Fill your steamer (idli/sanna maker) with water and put it on the fire. While that's happening, oil each of the containers and pour the sanna mixture into them Don't pour up to the brim as they will rise, so a little more than half way for the first lot and adjust accordingly. Once your steamers nice and hot, put in the containers and steam for 15 minutes. Remove the sunnas with the help of a knife if necessary and there you have your fluffy goan idlis :) Now while the sunnas are in the batter form before the steamer, you can also add jaggery and coconut, similar to the pancake filling. This makes Goddachiim sannas, the batter is shown below a tea time snack :)

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Goan Recipes

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Mixed Meat Stew Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:31 PM PDT The Goan Mixed Meat Stew, is something of a delicacy and generally makes it way to the table on occasions. The recipe takes a good amount of kitchen time and is also extremely heavy on the stomach. A good siesta is recommended post the goan stew with rice :) I do apologize for the camera I used was not mine, but my sisters, it doesn't seem to reprodce colors quite accurately, though it made my job of pictures in low light very easy. Mixed Meat Stew Ingredients 250 gms boneless pork 250 gms beef 200 gms boneless chicken 150 gms skinless goa sausage 2 big onions chopped fine 2 big tomato chopped fine 6 flakes garlic sliced fine 1 inch piece ginger sliced fine 5 pepper corns 5 cloves 2 pieces cinnamon (1 inch) 1 carrot 1/2 cup green peas 1/2 cup elbow macaroni (boiled) 1 big potato cut into medium pieces 1 tablespoon vinegar 1 slit green chili Method With the shortage of time, we did a quick cook recipe, but the slow cooking correct method will be provided at the end of the post. Cut and wash the meat seperately, you can start off with the beef, as it would take the longest time required, we would cook it first. Apply Salt and add the beef into the pressure cooker with some water to the pressure cooker, do not close the cooker. While this is on the fire you can chop the other meats. Chop the onions and tomatoes and add more than half of it to the beef along with some water. Now you can close the cooker and in the meantime, chop some of the garlic and ginger. If you like you can pound the rest of it. Open up the pressure cooker in a bit and seperate the beef stock from the rest. Now you can start cooking the other meats, add the chicken. Add the chopped pork pieces. Add the remaining vegetables and its time to add the spices. Add the pieces of Cinnamon Add the Peppers and Cloves Then add the Cardamom pods Once all the ingredients are added pressure cook one more time. Add the amount of chillies you need, keep in mind the goa sausage meat too will have some spice Add the sausage meat and stir up the dish. As you can see the sausage meat colour has spread to the other meats as well. This is what you would use as a stuffing for Pastelão Add the potatoes and carrots Add the beef stock we had kept aside earlier along with the macaroni, the macaroni absorbs quite a bit of the flavour of the dish, if you not too fond of macaroni, you can skip this as well. Mix it up again and put it in the pressure cooker once more. Add the broccoli Add some vinegar and salt as per your taste and finally the mixed meat stew is ready! Enjoy you goan meat stew piping hot with some rice. The steps for the alternate method are ~ In the cooker add a little oil; drop in the whole spices and sauté onion, tomato, ginger and garlic. Add only beef, stir fry till onions are brown and add 2 to 3 cups of water and cook the beef till nearly done. Now add the other meats, add a little more water and cook till meats are nearly done. Now add vegetables, slit green chili and cooked till done. Finally add the boiled macaroni with 3 to 4 tablespoon milk (optional) and salt to taste. Pastelão can also be made using a similar process all you need to do This dish can be turned into a pie by drying up the above meat mixture, putting it into a baking dish, topping it with bread crumbs, a sprinkling of sugar, dotting with butter and covering with a sheet of flaky pastry and then baked.

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