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In the kitchen with Fanton Mojah

By GERMAINE SMITH, Staff Reporter

In the Kitchen Fanton is a hitmaker. He displays the dish, rice and peas, with vege-chunks and vegetables. Yum! - Ricardo Makyn

ON THE STAGE, he is the burly Rastafarian chanter with a growing collection of hit tunes. In the kitchen he is apparently still a hitmaker.

Fantan Mojah hit the kitchen with THE STAR recently and produced a sumptuous Rastaman meal. Under the watchful and hungry eyes of his crew, as well as, the entire Downsounds family, he took just under three hours to concoct tasty vegetable chunks with rice and peas, complemented by dasheen and pumpkin. As brawta, and to wash it all down, Fantan proved his skills with the blender by making melon juice as well.

"We a born chef, we learn this long time," he boasted early into the cooking proceedings.

"We know how fi light fire without matches, and we know how fi dig hole and put banana leaf inna it fi cook, real macka tree living."

Fantan said he learnt to cook quite young. He watched his mother and by the time he was a teenager, he already had the skills which would not make him starve to death.

' Real big man food'

"Dasheen and dem ting deh a the real food. Too much rice mek yu strength go weh too quick, yu see it," he advised. "This a the real big man food."

Ingredients

The previously mentioned ground provisions, scallion, thyme, coconut milk, onions, pepper, salt, sugar.

Process

Cook veggie chunks in water mixed with one pack coconut milk. When they are almost complete, add pepper, onions according to taste.

Cook peas as usual before rice, after adding the rice, add scallion, pepper, sugar and salt as desired. Cook to taste until ready.

To be truthful, THE STAR team never believed the hype about Fantan's cooking, but after sampling the food, we were instant converts. In fact, we will declare for the record, if Fantan's music career failed, he should head to the kitchen for good.

To this he answers "We naa fail."