Cuban Whiting Dinner

Cuban Whiting Dinner

It is quick, easy, inexpensive and delicious. The follow recipe serves one, but can easily be multiplied for many. Please enjoy with red wine.

I. Main plate

 Sautéed Plantains

o Ingredients

 1 plantain sliced oblong
 a tablespoon or so of butter
 fresh lime juice (do not use the stuff in those plastic lemons or limes)
 sea salt

o Directions

 After slicing the plantain, mix with some lime juice, coating the slices in it
 Melt the butter in a fry pan and allow to sizzle a bit
 Sauté the plantains on medium heat in the butter.
 When the plantains start to brown and get crispy on the edges, take them of the heat and add some sea salt.

 Garlic-cream fish (whiting)

o Ingredients

 2 Whiting filets (buy them frozen, for the convenience. When thawing them, I run the skin side under warm water for a few seconds and then I can remove the skin before cooking it. Then I let the filets sit in warm water. They thaw quickly)
 butter
 several garlic cloves diced
 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
 sea salt

o Directions

 Let the garlic sizzle until it browns in the butter
 Add the fish, reduce heat and cover
 After a few minutes (the fish cooks quickly) add the heavy whipping cream
 Let the whipping cream reduce slightly-not long! Just enough to have a nice cream sauce.

 Black beans and rice

o Ingredients

 ½ cup uncooked white rice
 fresh juice from 1 small lime
 prepared black beans ( you can buy them from Goya or prepare them yourself:
• 2 cans of black beans, 2 roma tomatoes, 1 onion, 1 chicken bullion cube, 1 ½ tablespoon of Chipotle peppers in Adobo sauce. Blend tomatoes, onion, chicken bullion and chipotle peppers in a blender. Add to black beans in a crock pot and let simmer and reduce.
 cayenne pepper powder to garnish

o Directions

 Rinse rice, Cook ½ cup rice in 1 cup water (you can do this in the microwave!)
 Before serving, pour lime juice over rice
 Add sea salt to taste and a dash of cayenne pepper powder to garnish
 Pour black beans atop the rice

II. Dessert


 Café con leche

 Cubes of fresh mangos with fresh whipped cream and a dash of cinnamon

Devishly Good Deviled Eggs

Ingredients:

Hardboiled Eggs
Real Mayo
Yellow mustard
Scallions or the greens for green onions chopped
salt and pepper
Pimenton

Directions:

Hard boil some eggs.

Remove shells, cut in half and place yolks in a bowl. Set the whites aside.

Mix yolks with mayo, mustard, green onions, and a dash of pimenton (spicy-sweet pakrika from Spain- made from smoked red sweet peppers)

Add salt and pepper to taste.

Scoop the yolk mixture back into the whites.

Enjoy!

* these are better fresh*

Sunday Quiche

Ingredients

One uncooked (not sweet) pie crust dough roll
4 eggs
½ cup plain yogurt
3-4 roma tomatoes
a few tablespoons olive oil
3 fresh garlic cloves diced
2-3 green onions
a few tablespoons of Zaatar
sea salt
fresh ground peppercorns
½ cube of chicken bullion
1 cup parmesan cheese
thyme sprigs to garnish

Directions

Pre-heat oven to 350 F

Grease a quiche/pie pan and settle pie crust in the pan.

In a blender mix eggs, yogurt, Zaatar, and bullion.

Slice the roma tomatoes in rounds, chop up the green onions, and dice the garlic. Simmer tomatoes, onions and garlic in olive oil on medium heat. Add sea salt to taste. Generously grind the peppercorns into the tomatoes.

Pour egg mixture into the crust. When the vegetables have browned slightly, pour them into the crust atop and into the egg. Sprinkle parmesan on top and add a few springs of fresh thyme

Bake until the cheese and crust brown slightly and the egg expands like a soufflé.

Enjoy with a mixed greens salad and a lemon-Dijon vinaigrette.