Cuban Via Miami Feast: Mashed Plantains with Oh, Baby! Garlic-Tomato Shrimp on Top, Grilled Flank Steak with Lime and Onions, Quick Rice with Black Beans

Name: Cuban Via Miami Feast: Mashed Plantains with Oh, Baby! Garlic-Tomato Shrimp on Top, Grilled Flank Steak with Lime and Onions, Quick Rice with Black Beans
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 397 grams black beans; 227 grams tomato sauce; 710 milliliters chicken stock, divided; 907 grams flank steak; 3 Tbsps fresh thyme, 5 or 6 sprigs, chopped; 4 cloves garlic, cracked away from skin and finely chopped; 1 small green bell pepper, seeded and finely chopped; 2 Tbsps grill seasoning blend ( recommended: Montreal Steak Seasoning by McCormick); 1 Tbsp ground cumin, divided; 4 servings Hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco); 1 lemon; 1 lime; 6 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil, divided, plus a little to drizzle; 2 mediums yellow skinned onions, 1 finely chopped, divided, 1 thinly sliced; 3 Tbsps finely chopped parsley leaves; 3 green plantains (they like green bananas and are available in produce department); 4 servings Waxed paper; 4 servings Salt and pepper; 454 grams shrimp, peeled, deveined and coarsely chopped; 355 milliliters white rice

Cuban Via Miami Feast: Mashed Plantains with Oh, Baby! Garlic-Tomato Shrimp on Top, Grilled Flank Steak with Lime and Onions, Quick Rice with Black Beans is a gluten free and dairy free recipe with 4 servings. One serving contains 1275 calories, 93g of protein, and 38g of fat. This recipe covers 65% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up parsley leaves, olive oil, thyme, and a few other things to make it today. It is perfect for The Fourth Of July. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 40 minutes.

Instructions

Heat a medium pot over medium heat.

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Pot

Add 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, 1 turn of the pan, and half of the finely chopped onion.

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Onion

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Frying Pan

Saute 3 minutes, then season with 2 teaspoons cumin, eyeball the measurement in the palm of your hand, and the thyme leaves.

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Thyme

Cumin

Pour in 2 1/2 cups of chicken stock and raise heat to bring to a boil.

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Chicken Stock

Add rice and lower heat to simmer when boil resumes. Cover pot tightly. After 12 minutes, stir in black beans and replace cover. Cook another 6 to 7 minutes. Turn off rice and beans, season with salt and stir to combine then let stand until ready to serve. While rice cooks, make plantains with shrimp and the meat.

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Black Beans

Plantain

Shrimp

Beans

Meat

Rice

Salt

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Pot

Preheat a grill pan over high heat. The meat can also be prepared in a hot, large cast iron or nonstick skillet if you do not have a grill pan.

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Meat

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Grill Pan

Frying Pan

Place flank steak in a shallow dish and drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil to coat about 2 tablespoons.

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Flank Steak

Mix grill seasoning with 1 tablespoon cumin, eyeball the measurement in your palm.

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Grill Seasoning

Cumin

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Grill

Add the zest of 1 lime to the grill seasoning and cumin. Rub the mixture over the steak evenly. Wash up and cut lime into wedges and reserve.

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Dry Seasoning Rub

Cumin

Steak

Lime

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Grill

Place the steak on hot grill or in hot pan and cook 4 to 5 minutes, turn and cook 3 minutes longer.

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Steak

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Grill

Frying Pan

Remove from heat and let juices redistribute 5 minutes.

Slit the skins of the plantains from end to end to vent them for microwave cooking. Wrap them each in wax paper, twisting up paper at ends. Microwave the plantains 4 to 5 minutes together or 90 seconds each individually on high.

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Plantain

Wrap

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Microwave

Wax Paper

While plantains and steak cook, place a medium nonstick skillet on the heat over a high flame.

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Plantain

Steak

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Frying Pan

Add 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil and the sliced onions. Sear the onions up and heat through, but leave a bite to them.

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Onion

Place on a platter and cover with foil to reserve heat. Return pan to stove and reduce heat to between medium high and medium.

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Stove

Aluminum Foil

Frying Pan

Add 2 tablespoons extra, 2 turns of the pan, and the remaining finely chopped onion, the bell pepper, garlic and shrimp. Season with salt and pepper and add the zest of 1 lemon. Cook until shrimp are firm and peppers begin to soften, 4 minutes or so.

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Salt And Pepper

Lemon Zest

Bell Pepper

Peppers

Garlic

Shrimp

Onion

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Frying Pan

Add the juice of 1/2 lemon, the tomato sauce and parsley. Turn off heat.

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Tomato Sauce

Parsley

Juice

Lemon

Peel and mash the steaming hot plantains with remaining 1/2 cup chicken stock and a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil. Season the plantains with salt and pile on platter or dinner plates then top with garlicky shrimp and tomatoes. Very thinly slice the cooked steak on an angle, working against the grain. Squeeze lime juice over the meat and arrange over the cooked sliced onions on serving platter. Fluff up rice and black beans a bit, transfer them to a bowl and pass at table.

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Chicken Stock

Black Beans

Lime Juice