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 Vary Amin'Anana

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Vary Amin'Anana

Rice
⏱ 60 min
👥 Serves 4
Difficulty ⭐

Rice, greens, and meat simmered into a soft porridge — a Malagasy breakfast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Vary amin'anana means 'rice with leaves': rice simmered soft with greens and beef or shrimp into a porridge-like dish. It's a breakfast staple in Madagascar, one of the world's biggest rice-eating nations, where people eat rice from morning to night. It's gently scented with ginger and garlic.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Early morning in Antananarivo, steaming green porridge is ladled into bowls at a street stall as people on their way to work eat it standing up.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Heat oil in a pot and sauté the onion, ginger, and garlic.

  2. Add the ground meat and stir-fry, then add the chopped tomato.

  3. Add the rinsed rice and 1.2L water and simmer 30 minutes.

  4. Add the chopped spinach and simmer 10 minutes.

  5. Season with salt.

  6. Serve in bowls.

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