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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Caribbean >> Rest Caribbean

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Wash beef with lime juice, & salt; allow to marinate for 10 minutes. | 2. Rinse with cold water. | 3. Make a paste from green pepper, green onions, parsley, garlic and vinegar; rub it on meat and let marinate for about 30 minutes. | 4. Brown beef in small amount of oil. | 5. Add tomato paste, seasonings and water to cover the beef. | 6. Add chopped green bell pepper and place on top of the beef while it is cooking. | 7. Let the beef cook until tender, continually adding tomato paste mixture as needed, so beef does not burn or dry out. | 8. After meat is tender, bring a large pot with a medium amount of water to a boil and start placing in the vegetables. | 9. First, add the cabbage and eggplant, next add the lima beans and green beans. Add the carrots, and chayottes - allow to steam until somewhat tender, then add spinach and watercress. | 10. Pour some oil over the vegetables, add the butter and 1 Maggi cube - continue to let steam till tender. | 11. Once tender, add the vegetables to beef mixture and stir everything together. | 12. Let cook for another 10-20 minutes. | 13. Taste, adjust seasonings. | 14. If necessary, add another Maggi cube. | 15. Taste again, and adjust all the seasonings. | 16. This also goes very well with white rice and black beans or kidney beans, that have been cooked down and blended in a blender to make sauce pois(bean sauce). | 17. Enjoy! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
steak	2	lb	trimmed cut round	1115.2025	0.0	196.2031	30.7361
vegetable oil	1/4 - 1/2	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
eggplant	1		chopped	-	-	-	-
chayote	1			-	-	-	-
green bell pepper	2		chopped divided	302.6	0.0	67.32	1.7
scallion	3		chopped	96.0	22.02	5.49	0.57
garlic clove	2		minced	8.94	1.9836	0.3816	0.03
parsley			chopped	-	-	-	-
head cabbage	1			302.6	0.0	67.32	1.7
lima bean	20	ounces		640.6985	114.3619	38.7821	4.8761
string bean	12	ounces	chopped	302.6	0.0	67.32	1.7
carrot	2 -3	pieces	peeled sliced	-	-	-	-
spinach	1	box	chopped frozen	-	-	-	-
watercress	1	bunch	chopped	-	-	-	-
chicken cube bouillon soup	4 -5			302.6	0.0	67.32	1.7
tomato paste	1/2 - 3/4	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
lemon	2 -3			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt				-	-	-	-
black pepper			ground	-	-	-	-
garlic powder				-	-	-	-
vinegar				-	-	-	-
seasoning				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.