What's Your Love Food? - Ackee & Saltfish - WW - JamericanSpice

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

What's Your Love Food? - Ackee & Saltfish - WW

Because I am in love with Ackee & Saltfish. It's one of the dishes from my country. It is also the national dish.

I will eat this food with anything. I especially love it with fried dumplings and boiled bananas, or roasted breadfruit or just hard dough bread.

I'm yearning for this food again. I can't wait to be able to go visit my mom so I can gorge myself. I'm starting to make a list of all the foods I want to be stuffed with when I visit. Is that sad? I just can't help it. There is no food like Jamaican food.

Here is the recipe from this website if you want to see what I'm talking about.

http://www.jamaicatravelandculture.com/food_and_drink/ackee_and_saltfish.htm

I wish I could make it here but US doesn't have the ingredients. Sigh. What's your love food?

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Ackee and Saltfish recipe

Ingredients

You will need the following ingredients to prepare enough ackee and saltfish for 4 people:-

1/2 lb Saltfish (dried, salted codfish)
12 fresh ackees or 1 (drained) can of tinned ackees
1 medium onion
1/2 tsp black pepper
3 tbsp of butter
1/2 a hot chilli pepper (ideally Scotch Bonnet)
1 sweet pepper
1 chopped tomato
1 sprig fresh thyme or 1 tsp dried thyme

Optional ingredients:-
2 cloves of garlic
4 Scallion (or spring onions)
6 Slices of bacon

Preparation

Cover the saltfish in cold water. Let soak overnight (minimum 8 hours) changing the water several times (this removes most of the salt)

Ackee and Saltfish - Cooking the fish

Bring a pan of cold water to the boil and gently simmer the fish for 20 minutes (until the fish is tender).

Ackee and Saltfish - Chopping the ingredients

Ackee and Saltfish - Chopping the ingredients

Chop the onion, sweet pepper, chilli pepper and tomato.

Ackee and Saltfish - Preparing the fish

Remove the fish from water and allow to cool.
Remove all of bones and skin then flake the flesh of the fish

Cooking

Melt the butter in a frying pan and stir fry the onion, black pepper, sweet pepper, chilli and thyme for about 3 minutes.

Ackee and Saltfish - Frying - stage 2

Add the tomatoes and flaked fish and stir-fry for another 10 minutes

Ackee and Saltfish - Frying - stage 3

Add the Ackee and cook until hot throughout. Stir gently to avoid breaking-up the Ackee

Serving

Serve with yam, green banana, fried dumplings and Irish potato

About the author: Owner of JamericanSpice. Sharing my journey in the present, from the past or thoughts for my future. Mom of two who loves to travel and read and decipher people.

23 comments:

Just A Mom (Call me JAM for short), January 18, 2011 7:15 PM: I think we all love what our moms and grandmother's made for us. For me that would be mexican food!
Lori, January 18, 2011 10:04 PM: Sounds like a great one to try!! That's so funny - I just posted our weekly recipe! My love food is pasta with crab meat, grouper, and roast and creamed potatoes - yum, yum, yum!!

Thanks for sharing!
Velvet Over Steel, January 18, 2011 10:22 PM: I totally understand! When I was in high school I couldn't wait to more out into a college dorm. Then I looked forward to coming hoome on the weekends for old fashioned 'meat & potatoe' meals that I grew up on in the midwest. I missed them!!! Now I make those types of meals only when my boys come home to visit. Funny how some foods make us think of home, family, comfort... & love! :-)

Loved this post! My son will like the recipe too by the way. He loves to cook anything with and including fresh fish. Our favorite now! Thanks for sharing!!

Hugs,
Coreen xoxoxo
Sukhmandir Kaur, January 18, 2011 11:42 PM: It reminds me of a song I learned in summer school as a child which sings "akhee rice salt fish is nice". I never knew what that meant until now.
ester, January 18, 2011 11:59 PM: Sounds delicious!

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RetroB, January 19, 2011 12:13 AM: that looks like an amazing flavor combination! wish i could try!
Kailani, January 19, 2011 12:38 AM: Yes, that does look good! And it doesn't help that I haven't had dinner yet. :-)

Kailani
An Island Life
Alicia, January 19, 2011 1:05 AM: Oh that sounds and looks good! I bet it's really tasty!!!!
Life Is A SandCastle, January 19, 2011 1:09 AM: I love my grandma's cooking, she cooks like no one else. I love holidays to enjoy her special recipes:)
JDaniel4's Mom, January 19, 2011 5:24 AM: This looks wonderful. I would love to taste it.
Felicia, January 19, 2011 6:24 AM: I am definitely open to trying new things! Looks delicious :)
Secret Mom Thoughts, January 19, 2011 8:10 AM: That looks great!
Stacy Uncorked, January 19, 2011 9:05 AM: That really sounds delicious! Can I come visit your mom with you so I can enjoy some of that yummy food? ;)

My great-grandmother came over from Sweden - I remember so many awesome dishes she used to make when we'd go visit her. I keep trying to replicate them, but there's always something missing. :)

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blueviolet, January 19, 2011 10:46 AM: I hope you get a chance to visit your mom soon so you can eat it!
Ms Bibi, January 19, 2011 10:52 AM: That sounds yummy....there is nothing better then grandma's cooking (my mom doesn't cook).

When you go back to Jamaica put me in your suitcase, ok?
Xmas Dolly, January 19, 2011 11:53 AM: Well, that looks really different, but I have to say being allergic to iodine, and sea salt I'm feeling itchy just looking at this stuff. Sorry. Thanks for sharing though. I love to see how other countries cool. You duh bomb, Girlfriend!
Run DMT, January 19, 2011 1:07 PM: That all sounds delicious! I know I already asked, but can I come visit your mom too? I want to eat yummy foods like that too!

You should totally link this post for our Friday Food Fight. :-)
GrammyMouseTails, January 19, 2011 3:44 PM: I think we all have our comfort foods (if we had moms who cooked, wink) I wonder if that salted fish is like something my hubby keeps talking about that he enjoyed as a child? his always came via his grandma from Nova Scotia? I believe he said they could eat it like a dry jerky too. hummm?
parentingBYdummies, January 19, 2011 4:26 PM: I used to do that when I was in college. I'd send her my list of foods to serve me when I'm home. She never left anything off!
The Blue Zoo, January 20, 2011 1:39 AM: That sounds interesting....

I have way too many "love foods" to list. =)
Judy Sheldon-Walker, January 21, 2011 8:19 PM: We used to have food festivals when I lived in NY and I tasted and fell in love with a dish called ro tees (sp?) They were made with a pastry containing split pea soup. They were wonderful and I went home and tried real hard to duplicate them. lol
Self Sagacity, January 24, 2011 12:59 PM: I have never had this,but I love the way it sounds. I want to learn how to cook salty fish, since I still have some in my freezer. Boil bananas? I don't know if I ever had any.
Melissa, January 25, 2011 9:35 PM: I a always looking for new dishes to try in the kitchen and this one looks perfect! Thanks for sharing! I am your newest follower from Tuesday blog hop. You can find me at:

http://thechroniclesofarookiemom.blogspot.com/

Have a great day!!! :-)

Melissa