The Pantry Alphabet: A
What is it?
Do you have this ingredient in your pantry?
Which of these recipes from The Perfect Pantry contains today's ingredient?
1. Slow cooker Punjabi eggplant with potatoes
2. Moqueca (Brazilian fish stew)
3. Salmon tikka
When you guess which recipe contains the ingredient, please leave only the number 1, 2 or 3 in the comments below. Please don't leave the name of the ingredient, so others can have fun guessing, too. And let us know if you have this in your pantry.
(Spoiler alert: You can use today's ingredient to make sun block, or war paint, or "cow stuck in the mud".)
See you next Saturday, for the letter B.
Posted by: DLeach | March 18, 2012 at 12:00 PM
2
Posted by: susan g | March 18, 2012 at 03:13 PM
Thanks to some of the above, I dug in the pantry and found it in a paste too -- with salt, spices and garlic. The A is grown in Yucatan, Mexico. I see I have to pursue this to learn how to use it.
Posted by: Cindy | March 18, 2012 at 05:35 PM
2...and very interested in this ingredient since I'm cooking for a Brazilian boss.....THANKS!
Posted by: Heather | March 19, 2012 at 11:54 AM
2 and I have several forms of it in my pantry!
Posted by: carol,boston@cabinetstew | March 20, 2012 at 09:57 PM
I must admit I was stumped at first. but then some of the comments tipped me off.
#2
however once I realized what it was, I can also say that I have it in my spice pantry but in ground from - I have never seen it in any other form!
(I like this fun new feature!)
Posted by: Marie | March 21, 2012 at 02:27 PM
2. I'm out at the moment. I sometimes use it to color home-made cheese.