Roti
Roti Bread
From My Kitchen to Yours .....
Roti is a Surinam/Hindu dish. If you don’t want to make the bread you can use Naan bread. The roti massala consists of round bread with filling. The bread is made from flour. The filling consists of meat , potatoes and vegetables . The appropriate vegetables for roti massala is green beans, eggplant, endive or dhal (yellow peas).
I got this recipe from one of my favorite cookbooks” Surinaams koken”.
Stofie Bontjie one of my favorite Suriname Recipes. Easy to make and so much more taste.
Ingredients
1½ lb green beans
2 tbsp butter of olive oil
1 onion
1 large tomato
1 bouillon cube
optional black pepper or 1tsp sambal
Instructions
1. Cut off the ends of the green beans, and wash them. Fry the onion in the butter till translucent, add the cutup tomato and bouillon cube.
2. Add the green beans, and the optional black pepper or sambal. Add 1 cup of water, put the lid on the pot and cook on medium high for 20 min.
Suriname’s food is an exotic mix of East Indian, Indian, Creole, Indonesian and Chinese cuisines with a touch of Caribbean thrown in; the cheapest eateries are warungs, Javanese food stalls serving fried noodle and rice dishes. This recipe BBR is the abbreviation of Brown Beans and Rice and very popular in Suriname and Holland. The most important ingredients in this dish is beans and meat. You can use all sorts of meats: beef, chicken, pork. This is a good dish where you can use your left over meat