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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. Jamaican Ackee and Saltfish - A quintessential Jamaican Breakfast made with ackee, salt fish, onions, tomatoes, red bell pepper, then infused with garlic, thyme.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ackee and salt fish using 11 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ackee and salt fish:
- Get ingredients
- Take 1 can ackee drained
- Make ready 1/2 lb boneless salt cod
- Make ready 3 tbsp oil
- Prepare 2 onions, sliced
- Make ready 1/4 tsp dried thyme
- Take 1/4 scotch bonnet pepper skin finely chopped up
- Prepare 1 small tomato, chopped
- Prepare 3/4 tsp tomato paste
- Take 1/2 sweet pepper chopped
- Prepare 1/8 tsp black pepper:
The nutty taste of the lobes of ackee is complemented perfectly by Soaking and boiling the salt cod in several changes of fresh water leeches salt from the fish and makes it palatable. 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. This national fruit of Jamaica was imported here from.
Steps 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.
Salt Fish and Ackee, or Ackee and Saltfish as some people say, can be eaten anytime, but it is very common to have it for Breakfast or Brunch. This Jamaican Ackee and Saltfish recipe was a favorite with my wife Melody Ann and she cooked it frequently. Fresh ackees are preferable, but if you can not. Ackee and saltfish is considered Jamaica's national dish. Ackee is a fruit of West African origin.
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