DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Cari Gros Pois
Mauritian butter beans simmered in a tomato, coconut-milk and curry-spice sauce.
About Cari Gros Pois
Shelina Permalloo connects cari gros pois with the butter-bean curries her mother cooked in their Mauritian household. Her coconut-milk rendition combines butter beans with onion, garlic, ginger and tomato.
Mauritian curry powder flavours the sauce, with green chilli offered for extra heat. The beans simmer in coconut milk and vegetable bouillon before chopped coriander and lime juice finish the curry.
The sauce thickens around the butter beans. Permalloo suggests rice, roti, tomato-and-cucumber salad and chutney alongside the curry, making it part of an everyday Mauritian meal.
Allergens in this recipe
Optional additions: Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Cari Gros Pois
Shelina Permalloo's Mauritian coconut butter-bean curry.
- Vegetable oilCooking medium
- OnionAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- GingerAromatic
- Green chilliSeasoning · Optional
- Prepared Mauritian curry powderSeasoning
- Tinned chopped tomatoesBase
- Tinned butter beansBase
- Full-fat coconut milkLiquid
- Vegetable bouillon powderSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Fresh corianderFinish
- Lime juiceFinish
- Prepared cooked riceAccompaniment · Optional
- Prepared rotiAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Prepared tomato-and-cucumber saladAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Prepared chutneyAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- SaltSeasoning
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual190/223 botanical species unprovided.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green chilli (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual197-198/223 explicitly optional.
- Prepared Mauritian curry powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual199 Shelina own Mauritian powder selected over Caribbean/mild-masala alternatives; full exact blend unprovided, no own full component link in original, no Mustard guessed.
- Tinned chopped tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual200/227 broader tomato mapping preserves prepared form/full can product unknown.
- Tinned butter beans: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual201-202 drained and rinsed, exact can/brine formula unprovided.
- Full-fat coconut milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual203/229 source-specific coconut product, not dairy Milk.
- Vegetable bouillon powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual204/229 named prepared product, full formula/possible Celery or other allergens unprovided.
- Fresh coriander: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual205-206/231 required finish including extra to serve consolidated.
- Lime juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual207-208/231 finish.
- Prepared cooked rice (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual209/231 optional service full rice formula unprovided.
- Prepared roti (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual209/231 ordinary Mauritian roti bread, Wheat standard identity; full dough/fat/other products unresolved.
- Prepared tomato-and-cucumber salad (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual209/231 named prepared side, known tomato/cucumber but full dressing/method unprovided; no own full component recipe linked.
- Prepared chutney (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual209/231 generic optional chutney, fruit/vegetable/seasoning identity unprovided.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method-only229 retained.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Mauritius
- MauritiusCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Mauritian Cuisine
- Mauritian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.