Robe Goje

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My Plate, Your Plate is a storytelling and community arts cooking project where participants share recipes and stories. The project aims to build relationships between local residents and people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds, breaking down social isolation, building cultural awareness and solidarity.

This recipe was shared by Shokat & Zahra, mother and daughter project participants, hear the story in Turkish and Farsi below and download the recipe - the story is summarised in English in the transcript.

Shokat & Zahra's Story

A collage of two photos Zahra on the left and Shokat on the right. Zahra has long blong hair past her shoulders and Shokat wears a scarf tied under her chin, she is in a pink top, both women smile

L-R: Zahra, Shokat

Transcript

Shokat and Zahra transcript (DOCX 12.4KB)

Ingredients

100 kilos of tomatoes
750 grams salt

*This recipe is usually made with family and friends and the supply of tomato paste shared and used over the winter months - hence the large quantities!

Method

Step 1

Wash the tomatoes, cut them and sprinkle them with salt. Add to small ziplock bags and leave them for half a day.

Step 2

Smash the tomatoes with your hands. Then use a strainer / sieve to remove the seeds and skins.

Step 3

Add them to a LARGE pot and cook them, add salt again. Cook the tomatoes until they start boiling and splashing.

*Watch out as the tomato splash might burn you. We wear leather gloves or tie big napkins on our arms to avoid being burnt. Stir the mixture constantly until the water evaporates and you have a consistent paste (it takes about 12 hours).

Kept in a cool place the tomato paste will last 1 year. It is used in dishes like Gheimeh (Persian stew), rice, soups and dips.

Allergy warning

Contains tomatoes

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Robe Goje recipe card (PDF 274.1KB)