I should first state that most traditional foods take a lot of preparation time. This recipe is for “darasa,” my favorite dish.
Ingredients: green bananas
coconut milk
green and/red peppers
onions
salt
pepper
olive oil.
Peel and grate 6 or 7 bananas in a large bowl. Add one can of coconut milk, dice half green pepper, half red pepper
and half onion then stir into the bananas, include a sprinkle of salt
and pepper, with a few drops of olive oil. Traditionally a special
leaf is used as wrapping for the mixture, but aluminum foil is an
adequate substitute. Use the foil to wrap three pot spoons of the
mixture, like a burrito folded at both ends to ensure the mixture
doesn’t leak. Turn on a pot of water and set the darasa to boil for
30 minutes to 1 hour. You will know it’s done when the soft mixture
has hardened.
The darasa can stand alone as a meal or be eaten as a
side dish.
