Guyanese Ethnicity
Guyanese Ethnicity
Salad
Guyanese Potato Salad
Most often, potato salad is eaten at barbeques or family get together or as a side dish during festive meals like Christmas. Personally, I remember whenever my mom makes potato salad, it’s usually quite spicy. This is because of the wiri wiri peppers. These are small, ball like hot peppers. Usually one of them is enough to set your tongue on fire, and this recipe calls for 4 of them!
Ingredients:
2 lb. potatoes
½ lb. macaroni
2 green sweet peppers
4 wiri wiri peppers
Salt
1 stalk of celery
4 blades shallot (green onion)
1 tin shelled corn
½ cup mayonnaise
Condensed/evaporated milk
Directions:
1) Peel, wash and dice potatoes
2) Boil potatoes with salt until tender and drain
3) Boil macaroni separately with salt and drain also
4) Set aside to cool
5) Wash and chop peppers, celery and shallot
6) Add this to macaroni and potato
7) Add corn and mayonnaise and mix
8) Add a little evaporated milk until everything is just right to the taste
Soup
Split Pea Soup (Dhal)
We call split pea soup, dhal. Dhal is a viscous and flavorful “soup” that is eaten with a majority of food items. In my house, my mom makes dhal as a side to eat with roti, dhal pouri, shrimp curry, bhaji (spinach), okra, rice and much more. Dhal is made up of split peas and split peas can also be used to make dhal pouri, which is another version of roti except with dhal in the middle.
Ingredients:
½ pt. split peas
1 qtr. water or stock
1 onion, sliced
½ lb. yam or eddoes (potatoes), diced
Salt and pepper
1 tsp. thyme
2 cloves garlic, chopped
Directions:
1) Combine all the ingredients in a large pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered for about one and a half hours until peas are soft.
2) Stir from the bottom occasionally and skim foam off the top.
3) Ladle soup in batches into a blender. Blend for 2 – 3 seconds only.
4) Return soup to pot, heat and serve in
Salad
Guyanese Potato Salad
Most often, potato salad is eaten at barbeques or family get together or as a side dish during festive meals like Christmas. Personally, I remember whenever my mom makes potato salad, it’s usually quite spicy. This is because of the wiri wiri peppers. These are small, ball like hot peppers. Usually one of them is enough to set your tongue on fire, and this recipe calls for 4 of them!
Ingredients:
2 lb. potatoes
½ lb. macaroni
2 green sweet peppers
4 wiri wiri peppers
Salt
1 stalk of celery
4 blades shallot (green onion)
1 tin shelled corn
½ cup mayonnaise
Condensed/evaporated milk
Directions:
1) Peel, wash and dice potatoes
2) Boil potatoes with salt until tender and drain
3) Boil macaroni separately with salt and drain also
4) Set aside to cool
5) Wash and chop peppers, celery and shallot
6) Add this to macaroni and potato
7) Add corn and mayonnaise and mix
8) Add a little evaporated milk until everything is just right to the taste
Soup
Split Pea Soup (Dhal)
We call split pea soup, dhal. Dhal is a viscous and flavorful “soup” that is eaten with a majority of food items. In my house, my mom makes dhal as a side to eat with roti, dhal pouri, shrimp curry, bhaji (spinach), okra, rice and much more. Dhal is made up of split peas and split peas can also be used to make dhal pouri, which is another version of roti except with dhal in the middle.
Ingredients:
½ pt. split peas
1 qtr. water or stock
1 onion, sliced
½ lb. yam or eddoes (potatoes), diced
Salt and pepper
1 tsp. thyme
2 cloves garlic, chopped
Directions:
1) Combine all the ingredients in a large pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered for about one and a half hours until peas are soft.
2) Stir from the bottom occasionally and skim foam off the top.
3) Ladle soup in batches into a blender. Blend for 2 – 3 seconds only.
4) Return soup to pot, heat and serve in