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Mensa At Home: Try This Recipe

Part 2: In August we’re cooking a lunch from the Bremen Student Services Organization once again.

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Even though lunch is being offered to take away at Café Central at the moment, eating together in the Mensa cafeteria on campus is still not possible. But that doesn’t mean that we need to do without our favorite meals! Student Alena Weiß is cooking the soft wheat and sweet potato skillet with a spicy coconut sauce – a recipe from the Bremen Student Services Organization.

The recipe for the soft wheat and sweet potato skillet with spicy coconut sauce

Ingredients for four people:

For the sauce:

Preparation time: around 45 minutes

The ingredients for the soft wheat and sweet potato skillet
© Alena Weiß / Universität Bremen

This is how it’s cooked: Peel and roughly dice the sweet potatoes. Remove the broccoli stalk. Then clean and cut the peppers, spring onions, and red onion into strips.

The veg is cut into strips.
© Alena Weiß / Universität Bremen

Blanch the sweet potatoes, soft wheat, and broccoli successively in salted water until everything is firm to the bite. Then sauté the vegetables in the skillet with oil. Add the chickpeas, soft wheat, and sweet potatoes. Add salt and pepper to taste.

The veg is prepared in the skillet.
© Alena Weiß / Universität Bremen

Ginger, diced onion, and coconut flakes are then sautéed in the margarine and lightly dusted with the flour for the sauce.

Bild 1/3 © Alena Weiß / Universität Bremen
Bild 2/3 © Alena Weiß / Universität Bremen
Bild 3/3 © Alena Weiß / Universität Bremen

The sauce is prepared in the last step.

Then cover with coconut milk and simmer. Arrange the vegetables on a plate and pour the sauce over the top. Voila!

The finished soft wheat and sweet potato skillet with spicy coconut sauce.
© Alena Weiß / Universität Bremen

Bon Appetit!

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