#Saint Marie Beef and Pineapple Rum Pilaf recipe

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Saint-Marie Beef and Pineapple Rum Pilaf

The latest -tenth- series of Death in Paradise has finally returned to our screens this Monday, and, as is now tradition in this house, I’ve cooked a Caribbean meal to eat whilst watching favourite sleuths solve bizarre murders in the West Indies! This Saint-Marie Beef and Pineapple Rum Pilaf -which could absolutely be the island’s signature dish, although I will definitely try the crab thing!- is also a Welcome Home feast for DS Florence Cassel (Joséphine Jobert) whom we were so happy to have back (now if Ruby Patterson could come back from Paris, too!)

Ingredients (serves 4 to 6):

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 teaspoon Graines à Roussir

1  large garlic clove, minced

1/2 tablespoon Colombo spices

¼ teaspoon Red Chili Flakes

1/2 large red bell pepper

200 grams/7 ounces beef mince

1 1/2 cup long grain rice

1 teaspoon coarse sea salt

1/3 fresh, juicy pineapple

1 lime

1/4 cup good quality white rum (like Guadeloupe’s Damoiseau)

3 cups water

3 tablespoons pure cane sugar

3 fluffy sprigs flat-leaf parsley

Heat a large, deep, nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add olive oil. Add Graines à Roussir  and fry, a minute.

Stir in minced garlic, Colombo spices and Red Chili Flakes. Cook, a couple of minutes more. Chop red bell pepper, and stir into the oil an spices. Cook, 1 minute. Then, stir in beef mince, and brown, a couple of minutes.

Then, stir in the rice, coating well into the oil and spices, until transcluscent. Season with coarse sea salt.

Peel and dice pineapple.

Once the rice is well-coated and transluscent, stir in pineapple and thoroughly squeeze in the juice of the lime. Add half of the white rum; then, the water, and give a good stir. Bring to the boil, then reduce heat to low. Cover with a lid, and simmer, about 20 to 25 minutes, until all liquid has been absorbed.

Stir in cane sugar, cook, a few minutes more.

Finally, chop and stir in flat-leaf parsley and remaining white rum.

Serve Saint Marie Beef and Pineapple Rum Pilaf  hot. (Finish meal with a small glass of Cardamom and Vanilla Rum!)

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