(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
Ajiaco:1 medium size green plantain
3 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 large white onion
Some green onion
Some chives
½ bowl cassava
1 corn cob (sectioned into 5)
1 bowl pastusa potatoes
1 bowl creole potatoes
½ bowl pumpkin
½ bowl peas
6 cups water
Some tomato
1 tablespoon turmeric
1 tablespoon thyme
½ tablespoon cumin
1 tablespoon garlic powder
3 tablespoons rice
1 arracacha (root vegetable)
Coriander sprigs
Bay leaves
Guascas (flavor herb)
Stuffed Avocado:1 large avocado
1 tomato
1 white onion
Corncob
1 tablespoon oil
Salt
Pepper
Garlic powder (optional)
Seasoned Mushroom Skewers:Small mushrooms
Medium mushrooms
Large mushrooms
Pepper
1 white onion
1 tomato
2 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon soy sauce
½ teaspoon cumin
1 tablespoon turmeric
1 tablespoon garlic powder
½ cup water
Steamed Rice:
Rice
Water
Ajiaco:
- Peel the green plantain, split it into pieces. Split by hand will gives a better taste than by knife.
- Put 3 tablespoons of oil into a pot, add in the large white onion, green onion, and also chives.
- Add a tablespoon of salt, and stir it well.
- Place the pot on the stove and fry it for about 3 minutes.
- Meanwhile chop the arracacha, and the corn cob.
- Peel and chop the pastusa potatoes and the creole potatoes.
- Chop the pumpkin and the cassava.
- When it is already 3 minutes, add in 6 cups of boiling water into the frying pot.
- Add in some soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of turmeric, 1 tablespoon of thyme, and ½ tablespoon of cumin.
- Add in a tablespoon of garlic powder and Add in the plantain, the corncob, the arracacha, the pastusa potato, the creole potato, the pumpkin, the peas, the cassava.
- Add in 3 tablespoon of rice to thicken the Ajiaco.
- Add in the bay leaf and some coriander sprigs that have already been crushed.
- Stir it well and let it boil for 25 minutes on medium heat.
- After 25 minutes, add in the guascas and some tomatoes into the soup.
- Stir the soup for a while.
- Turn off the stove and let the soup stand for a while.
- Add in the coriander to the soup when serving.
Stuffed Avocado:
- Sauté the corn in a pan with a tablespoon of oil and a bit of white onion for about 3 minutes.
- Add in a pinch of garlic powder into the sautéed corn.
- Fill the avocado with pepper, tomato, white onion and the sautéed corn.
- Serve it with the Ajiaco.
Seasoned Mushroom Skewers:
- Remove the stalks from the mushroom.
- Take a stick and start pricking the mushroom with the stems.
- Start with the smaller mushroom, followed by the medium one, and then the big one.
- In the same pot previously used to sauté the corn, add in the white onion, the tomato, and the little pepper.
- Add 2 tablespoon of oil, a tablespoon of soy sauce, a tablespoon of turmeric and garlic powder.
- Add in a little cumin.
- Stir it and let it cook.
- Add a little water so that it becomes a very delicious sauce.
- Place the mushroom.
- For it to come out well seasoned, add the water and leave it for 5 minutes.
- After 5 minutes the mushroom will absorbed the sauce.
- Serve it with the ajiaco
The ajiaco soup is also served with steam rice.