Surinamese Bami with Atjar Ketimoen

Love Surinamese food? Then you have to try this dish!

Surinamese cuisine is sometimes still treated like the forgotten child, time to change that by introducing you to this delicious recipe. Rosella is happy to explain how to prepare this tasty Surinamese Bami. Rosella is also known for her own cookbook and her Instagram where she shares many tips, more on that later. 

- 1 cucumber

- 1 onion

- 1/2 chili pepper

- 100 ml water

- 1 tbsp sugar

- 100 ml white wine vinegar

- 5 allspice berries

- 1 clove

- 1 piece ginger

- black pepper and salt

- Spaghetti 300 g

- 2 tsp tomato paste

- 2 cloves garlic

- 20 ml sweet ketjap

- 1 chicken stock cube

- 1 tbsp fish sauce

- 300 grams chicken thigh fillet

- 1/2 tsp five-spice powder

- 50 ml light soy sauce

- 1 cm peeled finely chopped ginger

- 1 finely chopped onion

- 1 handful of celery leaves

1. Put the sugar and water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil.
2.  Add the ginger, allspice berries, cloves and some salt and let it boil for 2 minutes. Turn off the heat, add the vinegar and let it cool.
3.  Cut the cucumber into thin slices, the onion and chili pepper into half rings and remove the seeds from the pepper. Add this to the vinegar mixture. Add some fresh black pepper as well. Let this marinate covered in the fridge for a few hours.

1.  Cut the chicken thigh fillet into cubes. Fry the finely chopped onion and garlic in a pan or wok until the onion looks translucent. Add the tomato paste and fry it for 1 minute.
2. Peel & finely chop the ginger. Put the chicken, ginger, five-spice powder and fish sauce in the pan. Fry everything until the chicken is cooked.
3. Cook the spaghetti al dente and crumble a chicken broth cube through the spaghetti after draining. Add the spaghetti, ketjap and soy sauce to the chicken mixture and stir well.
4. Serve the Surinamese bami and sprinkle the finely chopped celery leaves over it.

Enjoy your meal!

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