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Heri Heri

Name: Heri Heri
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Suriname
Ingredients: 200g Salt Cod; 1 Sweet potato; 4 Taro root; 2 Green banana; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1/2 Chili pepper; 2 Hard-boiled eggs; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil; A pinch Black Pepper

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Boiled root vegetables and bananas with sautéed salt cod and boiled eggs — a Surinamese dish carrying the history of slavery.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Heri heri is a traditional Surinamese Creole dish: cassava, sweet potato, yam, cooking bananas, and more are boiled and served with salt cod sautéed with onion and tomato and boiled eggs. Derived from dishes enslaved people forced to work on plantations made from what they could get, it's customarily eaten on July 1, Emancipation Day.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the Surinamese table for Emancipation Day, boiled root vegetables and bananas are laid out on big platters with sautéed salt cod and boiled eggs.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Salt Cod 200g
Sweet potato 1
Taro root 4
Green banana 2
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Chili pepper 1/2
Hard-boiled eggs 2
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the salt cod in water overnight to remove the salt, then boil and flake.
Peel the sweet potatoes, taro, and bananas, cut large, and boil until soft.
Heat oil in a frying pan and sauté the sliced onion and chopped tomato and chili.
Add the salt cod, toss together, and season with pepper.
Plate the boiled root vegetables and bananas and serve with the salt cod and boiled eggs.

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