Surinamese Bami with Atjar Ketimoen

Do you love Surinamese food? Then you have to try this dish!

Surinamese cuisine is sometimes treated as an afterthought, it's time to change that by introducing this delicious recipe to you. Rosella will gladly explain how you can prepare this delicious 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 Spanish pepper

- 100 ml water

- 1 tbsp sugar

- 100 ml white wine vinegar

- 5 allspice berries

- 1 clove

- 1 piece of ginger

- black pepper and salt

- Spaghetti 300 gr

- 2 tsp tomato paste

- 2 cloves of garlic

- 20 ml sweet soy sauce

- 1 chicken stock cube

- 1 tbsp fish sauce

- 300 grams of chicken thigh fillet

- 1/2 tsp five-spice powder

- 50 ml light soy sauce

- 1 cm peeled finely chopped ginger

- 1 onion finely chopped

- 1 handful of celery leaves

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

1. Cut the chicken thigh fillet into cubes. Fry the finely chopped onion and garlic in a pan or wok pan until the onion is translucent. Add the tomato paste and fry for 1 minute.
2. Peel & finely chop the ginger. Add the chicken, ginger, five-spice powder and fish sauce to the pan. Fry everything until the chicken is cooked.
3. Cook the spaghetti al dente and after draining, crumble a chicken stock cube through the spaghetti. 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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