Wednesday, 5 August 2015
Further food #2
Another staple of the Paraguayan diet is poroto ('kumanda' in Guarani), a type of bean. Demetria's son's garden produced a lot of this back in March/April time.. Here you can see the vat of dried bean pods and the shelled beans.
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
Further food #1
Empanadas are a little bit like miniature cornish pasties, and can be purchased round the corner (any corner) for 1000 guaranies, which is approximately 12p.
A step up from this is making your own, for which you need a mould.
You can buy minced meat to make the filling with, or you can grind it yourself, as pictured here, which tastes better (apparently).
Similarly, you can use pre-made pastry circles (as above) or you do that part yourself too, as my friend's mother did for his nephew's birthday. This involved putting the rolled-out dough through what looked like a mangle.
They are most commonly fried, but can be oven-baked too.
A step up from this is making your own, for which you need a mould.
You can buy minced meat to make the filling with, or you can grind it yourself, as pictured here, which tastes better (apparently).
Similarly, you can use pre-made pastry circles (as above) or you do that part yourself too, as my friend's mother did for his nephew's birthday. This involved putting the rolled-out dough through what looked like a mangle.
They are most commonly fried, but can be oven-baked too.
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