Day 19 - Rice and Peas and Greens and Sweet Potatoes and Peanut Gravy

This is very much an old style, stick to your ribs, hippie commune sort of meal and it was just what I was craving.

It really is rice and peas, the peas are dried marrowfat peas saved from the garden and soaked for a few hours before cooking with rice and onions in a pressure cooker. You need about half the weight of dry peas to uncooked brown rice and when you're not being 'healthy' it's nice to fry the onions off before adding them to the pot but it still works well if you don't. Put the rice, soaked peas and onions into the cooker, add about twice the volume of water and cook on high pressure for 20 minutes or so. Allow to cool naturally. When you can take the lid off, add seasonings and about 100g of freshly grated coconut. Mix well, recover and make the rest of the vegetables.

Peel and slice some sweet potatoes. I boiled these until just soft, then drained them and completed cooking them in a steamer over the sprouting broccoli.

Served with a peanut gravy based on my simple peanut sauce from ages ago.