Banana Ecuadorian smoothie

 Ingredients:

•      5 medium bananas
•      1/2 pint of boiled milk
•      Brown sugar or honey

   

Preparation:

 
Peel the bananas and cut them into small pieces, then placed in the blender along with milk and Brown sugar or honey to taste. Liquefies and is served in the respective vessels.

Benefits:

 
It is a great remedy for constipation because of its high content of potassium and calcium, or great food for persoas suffering from cerebral weakness.

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Lentil stew with rice Recipe (Arroz con Menestra)

This recipe is one of best tradiconal ecuadorian food

Ingredients :

• Cooked rice
• Meat
• patacones
• 1 lb beans or Lentils
• 1/4 lb Pork skin (if you don't find it you can use Bacon)
• 2 medium red onions chopped
• 2 medium green peppers chopped
• 1 medium green peppers whole
• 2 garlic beans
• culantro
• Achiote
• salt, pepper, comino, adobo
• Ajinomoto (monosodic glutamate) 

Directions :

1. 4 hours before (or overnight) soak the beans/Lentils in water. After that rinse them.
2. Cook the rice as usual. 

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Fanesca Ecuadorian Recipe

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 tablespoons canola oil
  
• 1 Spanish onion, cut into small dice
  
• 6 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  
• ½ green pepper, finely chopped
  
• ½ cup cilantro leaves, chopped and compacted
  
• 2 pounds salted codfish
  
• 2½ cups (20 ounces) fish stock
  
• 2 ears of corn, sliced
  
• 5 ounces corn kernels, cooked in unsalted water
  
• 1 cup (8 ounces) broad beans, cooked in unsalted water
  
• 1 cup (8 ounces) Andean beans (or any bean of your preference), cooked in unsalted water
  
• 1 cup (8 ounces) lentils, cooked in unsalted water
  
• 4 cups (32 ounces) milk
  
• 1 cup (8 ounces) white rice, cooked in unsalted water
  
• 1½ pounds pumpkin. Cook 1 pound in unsalted water and reserve the liquid. Cut the remaining uncooked ½ pound into small dice
  
• 1/3 cup cabbage, finely cut and cooked
  
• 1 10-ounce bag frozen peas and carrots
  
• 2 carrots, uncooked and cut into sticks
  
• ½ cup (4 ounces) cauliflower florets, uncooked
  
• Garnish: 8 hard-boiled eggs, sliced. Chopped cilantaro

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