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Mamey Sapote Beef Burgers.

June 5, 2015 Munchkin

It is mamey sapote season in Belize.

A ripe mamey sapote is soft to the touch when you press hard with thumb and fore-finger. Cut around the shell lengthwise (like an avocado) to obtain the two halves of the fruit with a central large seed. Remove the seed and spoon out the pulp to eat. The flesh should come off easily in a ripe fruit. You can eat this fruit out of hand or you can transform it into a savoury burger meal:

This is a unique and tasty way of eating this tropical fruit. Mamey sapote has a reddish-brown, smooth and creamy flesh with a sweet flavour reminiscent of caramelised brown sugar. This marries very well with beef giving a caramel velvetiness to the ubiquitous burger.

Check out the recipe for Mamey Sapote Beef Burgers in Belize Wild Recipes!

Amusing, Belize, Food

Bean Bungle Burger!

April 8, 2015 Munchkin

Just the other day, Gnome had mentioned that we seemed to be eating beans everyday. Like a good Chinese woman, I blinked once and then placidly ignored his comment. I am sure that all of you out there will understand that once in a while, especially during wild intense times of fermentation madness, one can get rather tired and have little energy left to cook fanciful foods daily. Hence the reason why I haven’t been posting up recipes lately.

However, Gnome added insult to injury and did a big whopper of a bungle. During Hatcho Miso preparation, he over-cooked a tonne of black beans which could not be used for miso making. He left me with 40 cups (22 lbs or 10 kgs) of mushy black beans and urged me to “make them go away, please.”

And so with a teeny little ounce of creativity which I squeezed out by sheer willpower, I managed to create a recipe with the excess black beans. They are bean burgers made with home-made coconut flour and rice flour; they are especially spicy with whole black peppers and chilli peppers. I have called them Bean Bungle Burgers.