Jamaican Coconut Seafood

This is great dish to eat anytime of the year. I love seafood (those of you that have been following me probably know that already). This recipe calls for "vegetable oil," but I used canola oil instead.

Ingredients

2 tsp canola oil
raw prawns 1 lb (deveined and peeled)
2 bunches of green oinions (scallions)
1 garlic clove chopped
1 small habenero pepper (scotch bonnet) -use a green chili for less spicy
1 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and cut into sticks
5 fluid oz of white wine
5 fluid oz of cream of coconut
4 oz shitake mushrooms
salt and pepper to taste

Method

Heat a large skillet or if you have a wok it will work better, add oil. When oil is hot (almost smoking) then add the prawns and stir or about 5 minutes. Remove the prawns (keep warm in a low heat oven). Add the mushrooms, stir for about 3 minutes, remove and add to prawns to plate in oven. add the wine and coconut milk to the skillet. Let this mixture boil for about 5 minutes. reduce the heat. Return the prawns and mushrooms to the this mixture,stirring occasionally. Stir in the other seasonings. add salt and pepper to taste. (do notbreak open the scotch bonnet (habenero pepper) in the skillet). If you choose to use the sliced chillies then add to taste for spiceness.

Serve with cooked rice

Jamaican Stew Beef

This is one of those recipes that will mek yuh slap yuh madda! Nothing like the one pot meals

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups red peas
• ½ lb salt beef
• 1 lb stew beef (you also can use pigs-tail if you like)
• 1 scotch bonnet pepper
• 2 stalk scallion
• 3 sprig thyme
• 2 cups coconut milk (or 1/4 box)
• 6 pimento seed
• 3 cloves garlic
• salt and pepper to taste
• spinners (See Recipe Below)

METHOD / DIRECTIONS:

Boil and drain salt beef twice, in a medium size pan. Place peas, meat and garlic together in the pan, boil until peas are tender, about 1 ½ hour. Add coconut cream, spinners, and seasoning, cook for about an hour. Season to taste. Thicken the mix with 3 tablespoons of flour combined with 1/4 cup water. Strain the mixture into the stew. Boil until it thickens. Serve with rice.

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Jamaican Fried Chicken

Yes, Jamaicans love Fried Chicken. Well, this Jamaican does anyway. One thing that is done different in Jamaica is tomato Ketchup is used in the recipe. See, to be a "real" Jamaican, you can't just say, "ketchup." You have to say "tomato ketchup.


Chicken
Onions
Black pepper
Scotch Bonnet Flakes
Salt
Garlic powder
Flour
Oil
2 eggs, optional
Ketchup, optional
1. Season chicken with onions, black pepper, salt, garlic powder, chicken , and if you want it spicy, use some Scotch bonnet flakes (or habernero)

2. Set aside

3. Heat oil in frying pan until boiling hot. Enough to cover chicken, as much as half way.

4. Prepare flour in a bowl. Shake chicken into flour then fry, making sure you shake heavy flour off before frying. NOTE: If you like, you may dip chicken in some egg mixture (2 eggs) before using flour. After frying, you may Sprinkle some Ketchup on it.

I love this fish dish. I happen to love Mackerel. I like Herring as well (which if I don't have Mackerel I can substitute.) The key to this dish (in my opinion is the combination of the spices and coconut milk).

Ingredients


2lb salted mackerel
1can of coconut milk (or make your own fresh)
1 cup water
1 onion
3 scallion
2 tomatoes
A few sprigs of thyme (about 4 or 5)
3 garlic cloves
vinegar, black pepper and salt to taste (generally about 1 or 2 teaspoons of each)
1 tablespoon butter (I add this because it give the dish a nice flavor)

Method

Soak mackerel in water overnight, changing water regularly. Boil the mackerel for 15 minutes then allow to cool. You can remove the mackerel heads if you want to. I leave mine on. Then cut the fish in to small pieces. Chop the onion, scallion, tomato and garlic. Combine the coconut milk and water in a saucepan, bring to the boil then turn the heat down to simmer. Add onion, scallion, tomato, garlic and thyme, cook for 10 minutes more.
If sauce is still watery, mix 1 tablespoon of flour in 1/4 cup of water and stir in to the mixture.

When finished you can serve it with traditional green banana and flour dumpling. Or you can use rice. A nice salad adds to the meal.

Jamaican Curry Chicken

Once in awhile I will post an interesting Jamaican recipe I have found on the internet. This video is from Jamaica Travel and Culture.com (by way of Youtube). I have featured several curry chicken recipes over the years, but this is a very simple and very tasty. Enjoy

Spiced Fish with Lime Butter

This is a really nice recipe for those of you who like fish. I love fish. I can possibly eat it everyday. Okay, maybe at least twice a week.

Ingredients

1/2 pound of butter (let it get soft)
Juice and zest 1 lime
2 minced shallots
6 snapper or grouper fish
(you can keep the heads on, but this recipe is best when the fish is fillet)
2 teaspoons of salt
1 teaspoon of black pepper
1 teaspoon of dried basil
a couple of sprigs of fresh thyme
2 teaspoons of paprika
a dash of pick-a-peppa sauce (I use this with most of my fish dishes)

Method

First beat the lime and butter together until the butter is light and fluffy. Then add the zest, shallots. put the butter mixture on some wax paper and refrigerate.
Heat the oven to 450. Place the fish in a large baking dish, sprinkle with other ingredients. Then heat the butter and drizzle over the fish.. Bake for 5 minutes(according to thickness of fish). When done place some of the remaining lime butter over the fish and serve.