Tim and I bought a fresh pineapple last week, and after eating most of it straight, my tongue was going a little numb from the acid. I decided I needed to cook the remaining fruit a little to tone it down, and thought I might mix it with some beans and rice. (As an aside, I thought I was buying black beans, but somehow ended up with red kidney beans... oh well.)
I sorta made the dish up, loosely based on some recipes I found online:
-In a small pot, saute a couple cloves of garlic (minced) and some chopped onion in a pan, add 1 cup of rice and then 1.5 cups of chicken stock- cook until rice is done
- Meanwhile, in a frying pan, saute a couple cloves of minced garlic, 2 or 3 chopped green onions, a couple minced hot peppers (I think I used 3 or 4 birds' eye chilis) and about a teaspoon each of cumin and coriander until fragrant.
- Throw 1.5 cups of chopped pineapple (and any juices that accumulated) and a 15 ounce can of rinsed beans into the frying pan heat up and carmelize a little bit.
- Mix the rice and bean mixture, add salt and pepper to taste
- Top with lime juice to taste and lots of coarsely chopped cilantro.
- Eat!
Pretty good! Tangy, sweet, spicy, earthy. You could probably make it healthier with brown rice, but that's hard to find here.
