Description
This is another one of my favorites that we used to serve as a whole meal with some rice and fried plantains. It is one of the best ways to serve eggplant; with cabbage, carrots, spinach, watercress, & chayotte. I have had it as a meatless dish and also, with crab, or beef & beef bones with marrow. This is a combination of many recipes and in my attempt to get the right amounts to post i may have had to guesstimate a few times. Please forgive me!
Ingredients
- Round Steaks
- Vegetable Oil
- Eggplant
- Chayote
- Green Bell Peppers
- Scallions
- Garlic Cloves
- Fresh Parsley
- Head Of Cabbage
- Lima Beans
- String Beans
- Carrots
- Frozen Chopped Spinach
- Watercress
- Maggi Chicken Cubes
- Tomato Paste
- Lemons, Juice Of
- Salt
- Fresh Ground Black Pepper
- Garlic Powder
- Vinegar
- Seasoning
Instructions
- Wash beef with lime juice, & salt
- Allow to marinate for 10 minutes
- Rinse with cold water
- Make a paste from green pepper, green onions, parsley, garlic and vinegar
- Rub it on meat and let marinate for about 30 minutes
- Brown beef in small amount of oil
- Add tomato paste, seasonings and water to cover the beef
- Add chopped green bell pepper and place on top of the beef while it is cooking
- Let the beef cook until tender, continually adding tomato paste mixture as needed, so beef does not burn or dry out
- After meat is tender, bring a large pot with a medium amount of water to a boil and start placing in the vegetables
- First, add the cabbage and eggplant, next add the lima beans and green beans
- Add the carrots, and chayottes – allow to steam until somewhat tender, then add spinach and watercress
- Pour some oil over the vegetables, add the butter and 1 maggi cube – continue to let steam till tender
- Once tender, add the vegetables to beef mixture and stir everything together
- Let cook for another 10-20 minutes
- Taste, adjust seasonings
- If necessary, add another maggi cube
- Taste again, and adjust all the seasonings
- This also goes very well with white rice and black beans or kidney beans, that have been cooked down and blended in a blender to make sauce pois
- Enjoy!