Vegetable Run Down Recipe - Cooking Index

Vegetable Run Down

Cuisine: Canadian
Type: Cheese, Eggs, Vegetables
Serves: 10 people

Recipe Ingredients

1 tablespoon  Vegetable oil
2 cups  Chopped onion
2 x  Garlic - minced
4 cups  Chopped peeled chayote - (1 pound)
3 cups  Cubed peeled butternut squash - (1/2-inch) (1 pound)
1 cup  Cubed carrot
4 cups  Vegetable stock
1/3 cup  Fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon  Minced fresh thyme
1 tablespoon  Grated peeled gingerroot
1/4 teaspoon  Salt
1/4 teaspoon  Ground pepper
2   Serrano chiles or - halved and seeded
1   Habanero pepper or fresh scotch bonnet
3 cups  Halved fresh mushrooms
  Vegetable Stock
11   Fresh thyme sprigs
5 cups  Water
4 cups  Coarsely chopped chayote - (1 pound)
1 1/2 cups  Sliced celery
1 1/4 cups  Coarsely chopped onion
3 tablespoons  Shredded coconut
10   Black peppercorns
10 x  Allspice
8 x  Garlic - halved
1   Bay leaf

Recipe Instructions

Heat vegetable oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; saute 5 minutes. Add chayote and next 2 ingredients; saute 5 minutes. Add Vegetable Stock and next 5 ingredients; bring to a boil.

Reduce heat, cover, and simmer 20 minutes. Add Scotch bonnet pepper; cover and simmer 10 minutes. Add mushrooms; cover and simmer 20 minutes. Discard Scotch bonnet. Yield: 10 servings (serving size: 1 cup).

VEGETABLE STOCK: Remove leaves from thyme sprigs; set the leaves aside for Vegetable Run Down. Combine thyme stems and remaining ingredients in a large Dutch oven, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, over medium-low heat 30 minutes. Strain stock through a sieve into a large bowl; discard the solids. Yield: 4 cups.

Source:
Cooking Light, Sept 1994, page 90

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