Vegetarian Stew!

At first, I was going to make a dish with my mother; however I decided to do it with my grandmother. This is a dish that my great grandmother used to make for my grandmother and her siblings. My great grandmother is Grenadian. This isn’t a Grenadian dish; however she put her style of cooking into it. My great grandmother taught my grandmother who then taught my mother.
The only thing that is time consuming is chopping up the vegetables. Other than that, it only takes about an hour to make, if you know what you’re doing. It took me and my grandmother about 3 hours because she was doing a lot of explaining while teaching me how to make it.
My grandmother and I prepared the stew for my grandfather. It was something I enjoyed doing because I hardly get to spend time with my grandmother now that I school has started again and juggle work. This is a fairly simple dish to make; there is much room for error. The only thing you can possibly mess up are the onions. My grandmother says that the onions must stay white and should get burnt; browning them.
Cooking is something I enjoy doing, even though I don’t know how to cook much. I find it relaxes me and I like playing around with what you put in the food. In the sense that you can make something one way and change it up completely by simply adding or removing ingredients. Plus, it felt good accomplishing it and hearing my grandfather tell me that it takes good.
The stew is a healthy serving of food because of all the vegetables and beans in it. The beans are a great source of protein and the vegetables are a good source vitamins and fiber. I don’t believe that there are any environmental benefits because there are chemicals that are sprayed on the corn and the other vegetables that pollute our earth’s air. These ingredients are found at just about all grocery stores.

Ingredients:

1 can of chickpeas
1 can of white beans
1 can of black beans
1 can of pinto beans
2 carrots
5 potatoes
2 turnips
Dumplin [your choice on amount. We like a lot]
1 small onion
2 stalks of celery
Some parsley


How To Make It:

Get a bug pot and put 2 tbsp of oil
Chop onions and sauté until translucent [not brown because that will mean they burnt and the stew will have the taste]
Add celery and let it sauté for a while
Add stock [chicken or beef]
Add water until the pot is 3\4 fill and bring to a boil
Add chickpeas, white beans, black beans and pinto beans to pot and wait for it to boil again
Add carrots, potatoes, turnips and dumpling and wait for it to boil as well
Let it simmer until it thickens [to your liking]
Before serving add a little chopped parsley