Saltfish and ackee
Saltfish and ackee

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, saltfish and ackee. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ackee and saltfish can also be eaten with rice and peas or plain white rice. When seasonings (onion, escallion, thyme, garlic) and saltfish are combined with plain rice it is often called "seasoned rice", which can be a one-pot meal including ackee. Ackee and saltfish is widely regarded as the national dish of Jamaica..

Saltfish and ackee is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Saltfish and ackee is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have saltfish and ackee using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Saltfish and ackee:
  1. Get 450 grams salt cod
  2. Prepare 1 olive oil
  3. Make ready 1 onion, chopped
  4. Make ready 3 garlic cloves
  5. Get 2 medium tomatoes, chopped
  6. Get 1 scotch bonnet, deseeded and chopped
  7. Make ready 1 fresh thyme
  8. Take 1 fresh oregano (optional)
  9. Take 1/2 tsp ground allspice
  10. Prepare 3 spring onions, chopped
  11. Get 540 grams canned ackees, drained
  12. Make ready 3 cm piece root ginger, peeled and chopped
  13. Get 1 tbsp tomato puree
  14. Get black pepper

How to cook ackee and saltfish. Putting together the ackee and saltfish once both major elements are prepared is the easy part. Cutting up the veggies and other aromatics while waiting on the ackee and saltfish to boil is a good way to multitask. Everyone has their own recipe, but the basic breakdown goes like this: Ackee & Saltfish Recipe.

Instructions to make Saltfish and ackee:
  1. Fill a small saucepan with water and add the salt cod. Stir to allow the salt to diffuse into the water, then drain. Repeat this step about seven times, then cover the ackee with water and heat on the hob until the water starts to boil. Leave it for a couple of minutes then drain again. Flake the fish then set aside. You want the saltfish to be very salty, but not inedible so try some and if it is still too salty, add water and drain a few more times.
  2. Heat some of the olive oil in a large pan and add the onion garlic and ginger. Sauté for 5 mins then add the tomatoes and chilli and cook for a further 5 minutes. Stir in the salt cod and add the black pepper, allspice, tomato puree, thyme and oregano if using. Cook for another 5 minutes.
  3. Add the ackee and spring onions and stir in gently, taking care not to crush the delicate ackee. serve with rice and peas or fried dumplings and enjoy.

Now that you have a brief history and the benefits of the main ingredients let's get on with how to prepare this delicious Caribbean cuisine. My personal recipe deviates from the traditional version of using the dried codfish. The customary process requires soaking the fish for a few hours and boiling the fish several. Ackee and saltfish is considered Jamaica's national dish. Ackee is a fruit of West African origin.

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