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Vegetables Wrapped In Banana Leaf

A Colombian and tropical variation to your regular oven-baked vegetables: by cooking the vegetables and sauce in a banana leaf, all the flavors get mixed and preserved leading to a taste explosion.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Main Course
Cuisine Colombian
Servings 2

Equipment

  • banana, plantain, or bijao leaf (easiest is to buy ready-to-use rectangles)
  • cooking twine

Ingredients
  

  • 4 potatoes, sliced
  • 1 carrot, sliced
  • 1/2 small pumpkin, sliced
  • cilantro, finely chopped

Guiso (Tomato Sauce)

  • vegetable oil
  • 3 big, ripe tomatoes, grated
  • 1 medium sized white onion, diced
  • 2 cloves of garlic, grated
  • 1 red pepper, cut into thin slices
  • tsp cumin
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven at 220 degrees Celsius (440 Fahrenheit)
  • Start by preparing the guiso/sauce. Sauté onion and garlic in vegetable oil in a frying pan for 2-3 minutes. Add cumin, red pepper, salt and pepper and cook for an additional 5 minutes until the red pepper is soft. Add grated tomatoes, cover pan with a lid, and simmer for 20 minutes
  • While your guiso is cooking, preboil sliced potatoes and carrot for 10 minutes in a boiling pot. In the meantime, clean and slice pumpkin
  • Adjust seasoning for the guiso
  • Place the banana leaf on the kitchen worktop (see blogpost for instructions if you have not bought ready-to-use banana leafs). Add pumpkin, preboiled potato and carrot in the middle of the leaf. Mix the vegetables and add salt and pepper
  • Add guiso/tomato sauce on top and mix everything together
  • Wrap the banana leaf. Start with folding the short edges to the middle. Fold the long edges in like wrapping a present, and place them towards the middle. Secure the wrapping, using the cooking twine, by tying up the package. See pictures in blogpost for instructions.
    Place in a greased oven dish and cook at 220 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes
  • Open up the wrapped banana leaf by cutting the strings. Sprinkle cilantro over vegetables and serve with white rice
Keyword oven, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian
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