Date Night in Ecuador
The bold and exciting flavours of cooking from Ecuador…
Ecuador has an amazing variety of ingredients, from tropical fruits to root vegetables, reflecting the extraordinary diversity of its geography and climate. We start this meal with an Ecuadorian coastal favourite, refreshing citrus-marinated prawn ceviche complemented with a delicious tomato chilli sauce called aji de tomate.
For the main we head to the highlands with pork cooked in annatto oil and spices served with a variety of traditional accompaniments: potato cakes called llapingachos, pickled onions and avocado. Finally we’ve got figs in a dark sugar syrup (dulce de higos in Spanish) which are traditionally served with fresh cheese, ricotta being the best substitute you can find here.
| Description | Ecuador has an amazing variety of ingredients, from tropical fruits to root vegetables, reflecting the extraordinary diversity of its geography and climate. We start this meal with an Ecuadorian coastal favourite, refreshing citrus-marinated prawn ceviche complemented with a delicious tomato chilli sauce called aji de tomate. For the main we head to the highlands with pork cooked in annatto oil and spices served with a variety of traditional accompaniments: potato cakes called llapingachos, pickled onions and avocado. Finally we’ve got figs in a dark sugar syrup (dulce de higos in Spanish) which are traditionally served with fresh cheese, ricotta being the best substitute you can find here. |
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| Spices Included | ANNATTO SEEDS: annatto PORK GROUND SPICES: cumin, black pepper, coriander leaf, Mexican oregano, garlic, panca chilli, onion PRAWN SPICES: coriander leaf, black pepper, red bell pepper, panca chilli flakes, mango powder GARLIC SALT: garlic, salt AJI BLEND: piquin chilli, red bell pepper LLAPINGACHOS BLEND: chives, onion, black pepper SYRUP SPICES: cinnamon, allspice, cloves |
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(Date Night in Bengal) Just one word: Delicious
Date Night in Bengal ❤️ Just one word: delicious
Looks crazy delicious - we're loving it!
Beautiful colours and it tasted amazing!
It looks incredible, nice job!
Prawn ceviche - absolutely delicious, especially with the spicy tomato sauce
So glad you enjoyed, Happy Spicing!
Incredible flavours in this dish we had never had together, we are going to keep making this for future dinner parties!
It's a great one for summer too, thanks for sharing!
Beeaauutiful meal, the mixture of flavours worked perfectly! We needed to get a bit of each thing in every single mouthful.
The flavours compliment each other so nicely on this one - glad you enjoyed it!
This was really good :)! I was really interested to use annatto seeds as I’ve never heard of them before, they turned the cooking oil a really deep, flavoursome red. I was also happily surprised that the ceviche cooked in lager tasted really fresh and light, I thought the lager might have overpowered it but it didn’t. I’ve never tried Ecuadorean food before but I would definitely try again. I hope to make the llapingachos on the side of everything from now on. The subscription to the date night spice box was a Christmas gift so I’m looking forward to the next 11 boxes
This looks like a wonderful date night, Laura! We're loving all of the vibrant colours, and are swooning over your gorgeous patterned plates! We're so pleased to hear how much you enjoyed the different components.
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Lovely dinner, great work!