My Recipe of a Cucurbitaceae stew (snake gourd)
Hi great great chef, it's nice to meet all of you again and today I want to share a recipe with you. I want to share how I made a stew with a snake gourd tomato.
What is snake gourd plant?
It is a vegetable crop plant that belongs to the pumpkin family it is called Cucurbitaceae. Due to its physical appearance of being long and curvy like a snake, it is called snake gourd.
Nutritional value
It is rich in Proteins , Fats, Fibre, Carbohydrates, potassium, vitamin C and E
A good source of antioxidants, it also helps to reduce blood level, good in controlling weight gain, etc. All this depends on how you use it. It is of different species, some are very short and is called bottle gourd plant, some and not too long or short and it is called ash gourd.
Today, I want to show you how I used it for my stew.
It can be eaten as vegetable It does stir fried or boiled but while making stew with it it has to be with the ripped one.
So I have this plans in my home garden, I harvested the ripe ones and set aside for my stew making.
First of all I washed it open the pud and remove the ripe paste in each of it.
Washed
Removing the ripe paste
Then I blended it using blender to a very smooth and consistent paste as you can see it looks really like tomato.
Please note I did not add any colour to this paste you are seeing in this picture it is 100% snake gourd paste.
Blended it to a paste
Strained the water out
Then using a sieve, I strained the excess water out from it then put it aside for my stew.
The next step was for me to prepare my ingredients for the stew and I mis en place ingredients for chicken so I can marinate and steam the chicken.
Mis en place
Ingredients for steaming chicken
- Chicken
- Pepper
- Onion
- Tumeric & curry
- Rosemary, tyme, bayleaf and clove (blended)
- Seasonings
Marinated chicken
After marinating my chicken my steamed it till done, then drained the stock and keep it aside for the stew.
My 100% snake gourd tomato
By this time, the straining of the snake gourd was done so I keep it aside for the stew, the texture was really and it has a good flavour.
To begin cooking my stew, I prepared my ingredients and mis en place.
Mis en place for stew
Ingredients for stew seen in the above image include;
- Vegetable oil
- Chicken
- Blended pepper, onion, ginger and garlic
- Snake gourd
- 1 tin of small tomato paste
- Spices
- Seasoning
- Sliced onions
- Chicken stock
- Spicity jollof spice
Add oil to a dry pot on fire, then go in with the tomatoes paste and the gourd paste then fry it together.
Stir it consistently till it separate as seen in this image. Stir it to avoid getting burnt.
Add onion to it and continue stirring for about 1 minute.
Add the chicken stock and spices and allow it to cook for another 3 minutes while turning at some intervals
Finally, add seasoning to taste and some spices
Finally, the snake gourd stew was ready to be consumed, so I boiled white rice to go for it. It was really tasty.
It was my first time trying the recipe.
Stew
Rice
Many people have their different ways of preparing face recipe. It was my first time to cook it and I stand to be corrected if there is anything I omitted or didn't do it rightly.
Hope you will like to give it a try, for those in my city, I have the seeds available, you can get it at anytime and plant it close to you.
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Who would have thought that this plant would look exactly like processed tomato paste. This is another way of escaping the high cost of tomato in the market and channel energy to planting “Cucurbitaceae” vegetable in our garden.😄
The stew looks yummy as seen, how was the taste like? I am curious.
It is nice to see you use culinary terms learned in gastronomy class.🤭 Keep it up and thank you for sharing this unique recipe!