Vegetarian casado
Local name : Casado vegetariano
The Costa Rican plate lunch, rice and black beans gathered around a fried ripe plantain and a fried egg.
Photo : Grendelkhan · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- 30 min
- Total
- 50 min
- Serves
- 4
- Difficulty
- Easy
Method
- Cook the rice with a little garlic, oil and salt in 600 ml water, covered, for 15 minutes. Rest it for 10 minutes.
- Heat 1 tbsp oil, cook the onion and remaining garlic for 5 minutes, then add the beans with their liquid and the cumin.
- Simmer the beans for 10 minutes, mashing a ladleful against the side of the pan to thicken them.
- Toss the cabbage with the tomato, lime juice and a pinch of salt. Keep it cold.
- Cut the plantains on a slant and fry for 3 minutes a side, until the edges brown.
- Fry the eggs in the remaining oil, whites set and yolks loose.
- Build each plate with the rice, beans, plantain, salad and egg set side by side.
Casado means married, and the name describes a plate where the parts sit together without merging. Yesterday’s rice gets a second life here as gallo pinto, fried with the beans and a spoonful of Lizano sauce.
