Chicken With Oranges

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4-6 servings.

Ingredients:

3 ½ lb. chicken
3 tbsp. cooking oil
1 chopped medium onion
1 cup orange juice
3 oranges, peeled and sliced
2 cloves garlic, chopped
Salt to taste

Directions:

Heat cooking oil in a frying pan and cook chicken until well browned on all sides. Remove chicken. Pour off all but 2 tbsp. of drippings. Add onion and garlic to oil, cook until tender. Add chicken back with orange juice. Cook covered for about 45 minutes until tender. Serve with orange slices.

Chicken And Pumpkin Soup

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Serves 6.

Ingredients:

2 tbsp. cooking oil
4 c. sliced and peeled pumpkin fruit
1/3 c. chopped onions
6 pumpkin tips *
1 kg (2 lb.) chicken
1 c. coconut cream
4 c. water
1 sliced green pepper
2 chopped tomatoes
3 tbsp. lemon juice
Salt to taste

* pumpkin tips are the green leaf with the curly bit and stalk. They are edible. You may need to go pick your pumpkin to get these. They are very good for you.

Directions:

Wash pumpkin tips, prepare and chop. Fry onion in cooking oil until tender. Cut chicken into small pieces, add to onion and cook uncovered for 10 minutes. Add water, lemon juice and salt to taste. Bring to a boil, lower heat and cook 15 minutes covered. Add tomatoes, pumpkin, green pepper and pumpkin tips. Cook 5 minutes. Add coconut cream. As soon as it comes to a boil, remove from heat.

Citrus Baked Fish In Coconut Cream

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Serves 4.

Ingredients:

1 medium whole fish
½ tbsp. ground black pepper
1 lemon
1 mandarin or orange
½ c. coconut cream salt to taste

Directions:

Wash and clean fish and place on a softened banana leaf. Thinly slice the lemon and mandarin or orange and alternate the slices on top of the fish. Sprinkle pepper and pour coconut cream around the fish. Wrap the fish well in about 3 layers of softened banana leaves and bake in a moderate oven for about 40 minutes or in an earth oven for about 1 hour.

Note: Don’t know where you can buy banana leaves but if you can get them you soften them with heat i.e. strong sun or fire. Alternatively, I’m sure foil works.

Green PoPo Curry

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Serves 4.

Ingredients:

2 medium green popos
2 tbsp. butter
1 lg. onion
2 cloves garlic
1 sm. Piece ginger
2 green chilis
1 tbsp. curry powder
1 c. coconut cream
1 c. water
½ c. lemon juice pepper

Directions:

Melt butter and fry onion, garlic and ginger for 3 minutes. Add chilis and curry powder and cook for about 5 minutes until the mixture is a rich golden brown. Slowly stir in the coconut cream and water. Wash and peel the popo, remove seeds and cut into cubes. Add the popos to the curry sauce and cook for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add lemon juice and pepper to taste.

Banana Chicken

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Ingredients:

4 bananas
1 small pumpkin
1 chicken
2 green onions
1 ½ teaspoon salt
1 pepper
1 can coconut milk (add another if you think you need it)

Directions:

Peel all bananas and cut them long. Put them in the bottom of the saucepan. Put chicken on top. Cut the green onion and put them on top. Peel pumpkin and cut into long squares. Cut pepper. Put pumpkin and pepper on top of chicken. Pour coconut milk on top. Cook 30 minutes on stove top. (Could try in oven as well).