This past Saturday I spent the morning cooking a Haitian dish for the first time. It was basmati rice, Legim Militon, and Sos pwa blan; it actually came out really good.
Legim militon is basically veggies. The main ingredients are eggplant, chayote, cabbage. You boil the veggies down, mash them and then add it to the meat you are cooking. My mom uses beef and sometimes crab, so I have no idea how it would taste with other types of meat. I used beef stew chunks and oxtail and seasoned them the light before.
To cook the beef you add some oil to a large pan and then place the oxtail on the bottom and the beef chunks on top. The meat will produce it's own sauce to boil in. Keep adding water if you see that the sauce is getting low. Additional things to add are rosemary, thyme, chopped spinach, bell pepper, scotch bonnet pepper, and any other seasonings you have on hand. Once the meat is done cooking you add the mashed veggies.
Sos pwa blan basically translates into "White bean sauce." I used 1.5 cups of Great Northern Beans that I let soak the night before. I replaced the water, added some green onions, and boiled the beans until they can be easily squished with my figures. In a blender I added some rosemary and thyme and then the bean and water mixture. (You don't have to use a blender but it makes the mashing process a bit quicker. If you are going to use a blender then you should let the beans cool down... I learned the hard way. LOL). Once everything is blended well add the bean mixture into a the pan you boiled it in. (My personal preference is to wash it first). Add a can of coconut milk, one maggie cube and other seasonings, and let cook together.
It took me four hours to cook this plus however long it took me to prepare everything the night before. Haitian food takes so long to cook but it tastes wonderful at the end.
I know the photograph isn't the best but it will have to do until I am able to get a camera. Once I have a great camera I will be able to have cooking tutorials.
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