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Saint Lucian Bouyon

Name: Saint Lucian Bouyon
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Saint Lucia
Ingredients: 300g Beef; 100g Bacon; 150g (cooked) Red kidney beans; 1 Sweet potato; 3 Taro root; 2 Green banana; 1 Carrot; 100g All-purpose flour; 1 Onion; A pinch Thyme; 1 Chili pepper; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; 2L Water

Soup

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Meat, beans, root vegetables, and dumplings stewed together — Saint Lucia's hearty Saturday soup.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bouyon is a hearty soup made on Saint Lucia and other French Creole islands: salted pork or beef, red kidney beans, yam, sweet potato, green bananas, and flour dumplings are stewed with thyme and chili. Many families make it for Saturday lunch.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Saturday lunch in a Saint Lucian home, hearty soup from a big pot is ladled into bowls packed with dumplings and root vegetables.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Beef 300g
Bacon 100g
Red kidney beans 150g (cooked)
Sweet potato 1
Taro root 3
Green banana 2
Carrot 1
All-purpose flour 100g
Onion 1
Thyme A pinch
Chili pepper 1
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Water 2L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer the beef, bacon, water, onion, and thyme in a pot for 1 hour.
Add the sweet potatoes, taro, bananas, and carrots cut large, the beans, and the chili and simmer 20 minutes.
Knead the flour with 4 tbsp water and a little salt and shape into long dumplings.
Add the dumplings and simmer 15 minutes.
Season with salt.

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