Antioquia, Colombia

Calentado paisa

Name: Calentado paisa
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Colombian
Ingredients: 2 tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 2 links sliced, or pork sausage chorizo; 1 medium chopped onion; 3 stalks chopped spring onion (green onion, scallion); 2 cloves minced garlic; 2 chopped tomato; 1/2 tsp cumin powder (ground cumin); Salt, to taste; 1 1/2 cups cooked rajma (from 1/2 cup dry) with a little liquid rajma, dry (dried red kidney beans); 3 cups leftover cooked rice; 4 egg; 1 sliced avocado

Yesterday's rice and beans, reheated into today's best breakfast. Colombia knows leftovers.

35 minTime

25 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

600kcal

25 gprotein

10 gfibre

35minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)2 tbsp

Chorizo2 links, sliced, or pork sausage

Onion1 medium, chopped

Spring onion (green onion, scallion)3 stalks, chopped

Garlic2 cloves, minced

Tomato2, chopped

Cumin powder (ground cumin)½ tsp

Saltto taste

Rajma, dry (dried red kidney beans)1½ cups cooked rajma (from 1/2 cup dry), with a little liquid

Cooked rice3 cups, leftover

Egg4

Avocado1, sliced

Method

5 steps

1Heat 1 tbsp oil in a wide pan on medium. Fry the chorizo 4 to 5 minutes until browned and cooked through. Lift out, leaving the oil.
2In the same pan cook the onion, spring onion and garlic 4 minutes, then the tomato, cumin and salt for 5 minutes to make hogao.
3Add the beans with a little of their liquid and mash a few. Add the rice and fry, stirring and pressing, 5 to 6 minutes until hot right through and a little crisp in places.
4Fry the eggs in the remaining oil in another pan, keeping the yolks runny if you like.
5Divide the calentado onto plates, top with chorizo, a fried egg and sliced avocado.

Serve it like this

Mound the calentado on a plate, lay chorizo slices alongside, crown with a fried egg and fan avocado slices next to it.

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