\"Food of the Caribbean" rice salad with beans, avocado and mango

AUTHOR
Sheila Zhang
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 2
COOK TIME
30 mins
TOTAL TIME
30 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 5
  • 200 ml unsweetened coconut milk
  • 1 TEASPOON Vegetable broth (instant)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 200 g Basmati rice
  • 1 can(s) (425 ml) Vegetable corn
  • 1 can(s) (425 ml) Kidney beans
  • 1-2 (approx. 500 g) ripe mangoes
  • 2 ripe avocados
  • 6 Stem(s) flat leaf parsley
  • 2 (approx. 300 g) Bananas
  • 7-10 Tbsp Sugar
  • 4 TABLESPOONS Margarine
  • 6 TABLESPOONS Soy Yoghurt
  • 7-10 Tbsp coarse pepper
  • 1 TABLESPOON Lemon juice
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Mix coconut milk, 200 ml water, broth and 1⁄2 TL salt in a pot, bring to the boil. Stir in rice. Bring everything to the boil again, cover and let it swell at low heat for 12-16 minutes. Stir from time to time!

  2. 2

    In the meantime, pour the corn and beans into a sieve, rinse and drain. Cut mangoes into slices from the stone. Cut the skin off the flesh. Roughly dice the flesh. Cut avocados in half and remove seeds.

  3. 3

    Carefully remove the flesh from the skin with a tablespoon and cut into thin slices. Wash parsley, shake dry, pluck off leaves and finely chop 1⁄4.

  4. 4

    Prepare a strip of baking paper. Peel the bananas and cut them into 1 cm thick slices. Caramelise 3 tablespoons of sugar in a large pan (only stir when the sugar is completely liquid!).

  5. 5

    Melt 2 tablespoons of margarine in it, then fry the bananas in the caramel over medium heat while turning for 1-2 minutes. Take out immediately

  6. 6

    For the dressing, season the yoghurt with sugar, 1 pinch of pepper and lemon juice. Peel garlic and chop finely. Heat 2 tbsp. margarine in a pan. Sauté the garlic briefly in it. Add rice, beans and corn and fry until golden brown.

  7. 7

    Season to taste with salt and pepper. Arrange the rice in small bowls. Arrange loosely with avocados, mangoes, bananas and parsley. Sprinkle with yoghurt dressing and sprinkle with pepper.