Ackee and salt fish
Ackee and salt fish

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, ackee and salt fish. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really 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..

Ackee and salt fish is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Ackee and salt fish is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
  1. Take ingredients
  2. Prepare 1 can ackee drained
  3. Make ready 1/2 lb boneless salt cod
  4. Take 3 tbsp oil
  5. Take 2 onions, sliced
  6. Take 1/4 tsp dried thyme
  7. Take 1/4 scotch bonnet pepper skin finely chopped up
  8. Take 1 small tomato, chopped
  9. Get 3/4 tsp tomato paste
  10. Take 1/2 sweet pepper chopped
  11. Take 1/8 tsp black pepper:

Ackee and saltfish is usually served as a breakfast dish but can be eaten for lunch, or dinner. You must be careful if preparing this dish with the raw fruit from the tree. Raw ackee can be poisonous if. Break the cod up with a wooden spoon as it cooks.

Instructions to make Ackee and salt fish:
  1. 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.

Add the thyme and a little black pepper, to taste, and stir. 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. Ackee and Saltfish is Jamaica’s national dish.

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