What is Metemgee made of?

What is Metemgee made of?

Metemgee or metem is essential a dish made of ground provisions (root vegetables) such as cassava, eddoes and white sweet potatoes as well as plantains and cooked in seasoned coconut milk. It is all cooked in a savory broth of coconut milk and spices until tender.

How do you spell Metemgee?

Guyanese Metemgee (metem/mettagee) is a thick soup or stew made with root vegetables cooked in a rich coconut milk broth.

What is Jamaican provision?

In Jamaica, provisions is a word that describes not just a store of food, but specifically refers to the diverse array of starch fruits and root vegetables native to the area, such as plantains, cassava, yams, and taro.

Is plantain ground provision?

Ground Provisions, also simply called Provisions, is a staple dish in Guyana and includes root vegetables such as yuca (cassava,) sweet potatoes, yams, green plantains, and eddoes. Some, or all of these root vegetables may be included in the dish.

What kind of soup is a metemgee soup?

Metemgee (metem) or sometimes called dry food, is a thick soup or stew of root vegetables cooked in a rich coconut milk broth.

What kind of broth do you use for metemgee?

The rich coconut milk broth is what makes metemgee stand out. To make the broth, I sauté onion and garlic in coconut oil which compliments the flavor of the coconut milk. Then I add fresh coconut milk.

What kind of vegetables are in metemgee Jehan?

Metemgee or metem is essential a dish made of ground provisions (root vegetables) such as cassava, eddoes and white sweet potatoes as well as plantains and cooked in seasoned coconut milk. It is all cooked in a savory broth of coconut milk and spices until tender.

Where does the word metemgee come from in Guyana?

According to an article in the Stabroek Newspaper Metemgee (from the Twi metem = plantains or bananas; gye = to delight) is a meal prepared by boiling together various root vegetables with pieces of salted meat in coconut milk. It is African in origin and came to Guyana from the enslaved Africans.