Rice with Shrimp Sauté for Easter

Ingredients:

300 g of rice
12 large shrimp, peeled and cleaned
6 Chinese green beans (tiny peas)
2 carrots, sliced
1 onion, julienned
1 red bell pepper, julienned
1 scallion, chopped
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Cook the rice to taste.

Sauté vegetables in a pan with oil.
Add shrimp and cook for 2 minutes.
Add the cooked rice.
Season it with salt and pepper, mix well and serve.

Typical Costa Rican Tamales for Christmas

Ingredients:

2 ½ kg of banana leaves
1 kg of corn flour
½ kg pork post Tamales Típicos de Costa Rica para Navidad
½ kg of green beans, cooked
4 cups mashed potatoes
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup lard
1 cup rice, cooked to taste with achiote
6 chicken broth envelopes
4 garlic cloves, minced
2 sweet peppers, cut into strips
1 cilantro roll
1 chicken breast
1 celery stalk
1 thyme sprig
1 hot pepper
1 carrot, cooked and sliced
1 can petit pois
1 wick roll
Salt and ground cumin to taste

Preparing:

Cook pork with garlic, thyme, celery, hot peppers and salt.
Remove meat from broth and crumbled.
Reserve the broth and strain.

Cook chicken in a little oil with achiote, hot peppers, cilantro and broth.

Separately, mix well in a pot corn flour with the mashed potatoes, oil, lard, chicken broth, salt, a little chicken and meat broth and any other condiment of your choice.

Trim the leaves and wash them well.

Place a big tablespoon of dough on two banana leaves.
Add a spoonful of rice, a piece of meat, a piece of chicken, 2 carrots slices, 1 strip of pepper, 2 green beans, petit pois, a sprig of cilantro and any other ingredients you want.

Wrap each tamale well, leaving no or too tight or too loose.
Join 2 tamales and wrap them well.
Cook in boiling water for 45 minutes.

* Reserve a bit of pork and chicken broth to the end, if the mass that gives very dry.
* The dough should be well mixed and wet, if it becomes too dry the tamal can be hard.

Green Beans and Radish Salad

Ingredients:

1/2 kg green beans tenders, chopped and cooked
1 cup sliced radishes
1/2 cup chopped onion
A lettuce chopped into pieces
3 egg whites hard chopped

Dressing:
1/2 cup natural yogurt
1/4 cup apple vinegar or white balsamic
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp oregano
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp sugar
3 leaves fresh basil
Salt

Preparing:

Place all ingredients in a salad bowl.
Mix well.
Bathe with the dressing.

Dressing:
Mix
all ingredients.