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Meat in a nutshell

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 4 small sweet potatoes
  • 2 onions
  • 1 tomato
  • 3/4 cup dark green leaves
  • 1/2 cup peanuts,
  • chopped fish or beef
  • 1/4 chopped pineapple
  • 1 coconut

Directions

  1. Peel and wash the sweet potatoes and cut into small pieces.
  2. Wash and chop onions, tomatoes, and dark green leaves.
  3. Grate the coconut and save the shell. Prepare coconut cream.
  4. Put all vegetables, peanuts, fish or meat and pineapple inside half shell of coconut. Pour coconut cream over the mixture. Put the other half shell on top and tie tightly.
  5. Steam in a pan of water for about 45 minutes or bake in an earth oven.
  6. Serve in the shell.