Fri, Aug 19, 2005
Turns Out To Be Cooking Spice
The plane arrived on time. But the
passengers had to wait awhile before they could claim their bags.
The reason? Something fishy in the cargo hold.
Baggage handlers at Hopkins International found a suspicious
white powder leaking from suitcases in the luggage compartment.
Passengers on board the aircraft, which flew in from Africa,
were held while the DEA and a HAZMAT team checked the powder. They
found 70 pounds of it in the hold.
So what was it? Turns out the white powder was gari -- a cooking
spice common in Ghana. A family returning to the US from there had
brought the spice with them and one of their packages sprung a
leak.
Aero-Recipe: Fried Smoked Fish With Gari
Ingredients:
- 1 pound (500 g) smoked herring or mackerel salt 3 tablspoons
peeled and finely grated ginger
- 1/2 cup vegetable or peanut oil 2 yellow onions, minced 4 ripe
tomatoes, blanched, peeled, and pureed
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste blened with 1/4 cup water 2 fresh red
chiles, minced 1/2 pound (250 g) green beans, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt 2 cups gari
Steps
Season the fish with salt and
ginger. Heat the oil in a heavy-based pan, and saute the fish until
crisp and brown. Remove from the oil, drain, set aside, and keep
hot.
In the remaining hot oil, add the onions and saute until they
are almost brown. Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, chiles, green
beans, and garlic salt. Return the fish to the pan, cover, and
simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the sauce thickens.
Put the gari (above, right) in a bowl and add enough lightly
salted cold water just to corer it completely. Let stand for 10
minutes, or until the gari absorbs the liquid and swells. Fluff the
gari with a fork. Accompany each serving of fried fish with some of
the vegetables and gari. Don't take on plane.
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