Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, ackee and salt fish. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Ackee and salt fish is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Ackee and salt fish is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Ackee and saltfish is the Jamaican national dish prepared with ackee and salted codfish. The ackee fruit (Blighia sapida) is the national fruit of Jamaica. Ackee and Saltfish: Creamy ackee sautéed with aromatics and chunks of flaked saltfish (salted cod), this is Jamaica's national dish.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have ackee and salt fish using 11 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ackee and salt fish:
- Take ingredients
- Make ready 1 can ackee drained
- Get 1/2 lb boneless salt cod
- Take 3 tbsp oil
- Take 2 onions, sliced
- Make ready 1/4 tsp dried thyme
- Take 1/4 scotch bonnet pepper skin finely chopped up
- Take 1 small tomato, chopped
- Make ready 3/4 tsp tomato paste
- Get 1/2 sweet pepper chopped
- Prepare 1/8 tsp black pepper:
This Jamaican Ackee and Saltfish recipe was a favorite with my wife Melody Ann and she cooked it frequently. Remove all of bones and skin then flake the flesh of the fish. Jamaican Ackee and Saltfish - A quintessential Jamaican Breakfast made with ackee, salt fish, onions, tomatoes, red bell pepper, then infused with garlic, thyme. Ackee and salt fish, Jamaica's national dish, is one of the most delicious dishes 'pon' the island.
Instructions to make Ackee and salt fish:
- Soak the salt cod in a pot of water overnight to remove most of the salt. If the cod is still very salty, boil in water for 20 minutes. Drain cod and cut or break into small pieces.Heat oil in a frying pan. Add the onions, thyme and scotch bonnet pepper, tomato, tomato paste and green peppers. Stir for a few minutes. Add the cod. Stir. Simmer for 5 minutes, then add the can of drained ackee. Do not stir because this will cause the ackees to break up. Cook for a few more minutes then sprinkle with black pepper.Best served with fried or cooked dumplings, or fried or cooked plantains, cooked yams and Jamaican sweet potatoes.
Ackee and saltfish isn't just Jamaica's national dish; it's also a favorite breakfast or brunch for Jamaicans everywhere. Ackee is a savory fruit with thick red skin; when unripe. Ackee is a pear-shaped fruit that is found in warm climates. As the ackee fruit ripens, it turns from green to bright red to yellow-orange, and splits open to reveal three large, shiny black seeds, each partly surrounded by soft, white to yellow flesh. Despite ackee's unhappy origins as slave food, Jamaicans have reclaimed it as part of their national dish.
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