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Mmm, Ackee and Saltfish is one of my favourite dishes! If you're unfamiliar, it's Jamaica's National Dish.
Ackee is a fruit, poisonous in its unripened state. Here, in Canada, it's available as a canned product, usually for around CDN$9.00 per can. I was lucky enough to find this on sale for only CDN$4.99 each.
Saltfish, or salted codfish, is the other major component of this dish. It found its way to Jamaica, from Eastern Canada, hundreds of years ago in trade for rum, aka Newfie Screech.
Ackee and Saltfish is usually cooked with onions, green onions, thyme, pimento, hot peppers, and spices. I like to start mine by rendering some bacon and cooking everything else in some of the bacon fat. I find it adds a little more flavour. I've also had it cooked in coconut oil. Yummy!
It all combines to make a delicious savoury dish! Try it!
Home Cooking
Pickering, Ontario
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Mmm, Ackee and Saltfish is one of my favourite dishes! If you're unfamiliar, it's Jamaica's National Dish.
Ackee is a fruit, poisonous in its unripened state. Here, in Canada, it's available as a canned product, usually for around CDN$9.00 per can. I was lucky enough to find this on sale for only CDN$4.99 each.
Saltfish, or salted codfish, is the other major component of this dish. It found its way to Jamaica, from Eastern Canada, hundreds of years ago in trade for rum, aka Newfie Screech.
Ackee and Saltfish is usually cooked with onions, green onions, thyme, pimento, hot peppers, and spices. I like to start mine by rendering some bacon and cooking everything else in some of the bacon fat. I find it adds a little more flavour. I've also had it cooked in coconut oil. Yummy!
It all combines to make a delicious savoury dish! Try it!
Home Cooking
Pickering, Ontario