Caribbean Yam Pie

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Ingredients

  • 3 lbs white yams (Peeled and chopped)
  • 1 ½ cups of cheese (cheddar or your choice)
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • ½ cup grated onion
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp lemon pepper
  • ¼ tsp cerole seasoning or mix seasoning on your choice
  • 2 tbsp butter unsalted

Instructions:

  • In a large pot, put yams and bring to a boil
  • When fork tender (about 15 mins), strain out water
  • Put boiled yams in a large bowl and mash with potato masher or run through a sieve
  • Add  all other ingredients and mix well
  • Pour in a prepared dish and baked at 350 degrees for about 25-30 mins

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Peanut Punch

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Ingredients:

  • ⅓  cup peanut butter
  • ½ cup half and half
  • ¼ cup condensed milk
  • 1 ripe banana
  • ½ tsp ground nutmeg
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp vanilla extra
  • Ice for serving

Topping

  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 tbsp confectioners sugar
  • ½ tsp almond extract ( or one of your choice)

Instructions

  • In a blender mix all ingredients except ones for topping until creamy and smooth
  • In a glass over ice pour mixture 

Topping Instructions

  • Beat all ingredients for topping with a whisk in a bowl then scoop a spoon full to add to the top of the punch. Add some ground nutmeg for garnish

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Coconut Drops

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup grated coconut
  • 3/4 – 1 cup of coconut milk
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp of cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp of nutmeg powder
  • 1 tsp of baking powder
  • 1 egg
  • 1 stick of butter (8 tbsp)
  • 1 tsp of vanilla extract (essence)

Steps

  • In a large bowl, put flower and cut butter (use pastry cutter to help)
  • Add cinnamon, nutmeg, and baking powder
  • Mix well
  • Add coconut and sugar
  • Create a “well” in the middle and add coconut milk, egg and vanilla extract
  • Mix to an even consistency
  • Scoop out drops of mixture on a cooking sheet (silicon mat or parchment paper)
  • Bake for 20 – 25 minutes for 365 degrees
  • Serve

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Red Beans Soup

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 Ingredients

  • ½ lb kidney beans/red beans
  • 1 lb pig tail
  • 8 cups of water
  • 2 medium sweet potatoes chopped
  • 1 carrot chopped
  • 1 green plantain pealed and chopped
  • 2 cups white yams chopped
  • 4 whole cloves
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • ¼ cup yellow onion
  • ¼ cup green onion
  • Seasoning bundle (thyme, rosemary, sage)
  • 1 cup flour for dumpling

Instructions

  • Soak beans and pigtails overnight
  • Rinse beans and pigtail then chop pigtail
  • Pressure cook  beans and pigtail for 15 mins
  • Transfer to a large pot add seasoning bundle and more hot water if needed
  • Add yams, potato, plantain and carrot to pot and let boil for 10 mins
  • Knead flour and water with pinch of salt  to make dumpling
  • Add dumpling and cook for another 5 mins
  • Turn off heat and serve

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Pelau

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Ingredients

  • 2 lbs turkey drumstick seasoned and chopped
  • ½ lb beef chunks seasoned
  • 1 ½ cups rice
  • 19 oz mix vegetables
  • 1-2 tbsp Browning
  • 3 green onions chopped
  • 3-4 stems of thyme
  • 1 stem of rosemary
  • 2-3 stems of parsley
  • 3-4 cloves of garlic
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika or chili
  • 1 tsp turmeric
  • 1 tsp curry
  • 6 drops of hot sauce
  • 6- 8 cups of water 

Instructions

  • Pre-cook turkey and beef in pressure cooker with seasoning  and browning for at least 20 mins
  • Transfer contents from pressure cooker to large pot
  • Add rice, parsley, thyme, and rosemary bundle and cook for about 10 mins
  • Add mix vegetable and test to see if pot has enough salt 
  • Add hot water in needed at this time and hot pepper
  • Cover pot and reduce to simmer until fully cook

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Callaloo Soup

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups callaloo blanche
  • 1lb pigtail boiled and chopped
  • 1 medium carrot chopped
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • ⅓ of red onion diced
  • 2 stem green onion chopped
  • ¼ cup parsley
  • 4-5 stem of fresh thyme
  • 2 medium size Yukon gold potatoes
  • 2 medium size sweet potatoes
  • 2 tbsp coconut milk
  • 1- 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper

Instructions

  1. In a blender put 2 cups callaloo with 1 cup water and blend
  2. In a large pot, pour callaloo and add fresh seasoning and bring to a boil
  3. Add pigtail, crab and potatoes cook for about 10 mins
  4. Knead flour to make dumpling
  5. Add carrot, and dumpling and coconut milk for another 5 mins

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Rice Cakes

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Ingredients:

  • 1 ½ cup Arborio Rice
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • I small shallot chopped
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tap curry
  • ½ tsp turmeric
  • ½ tsp clove
  • ½ coconut milk
  • Panko bread crumbs
  • water

Filling

  • ½ cup Italian bread crumbs
  • 5 oz coconut yogurt
  • 8 oz cheese
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 thyme stems
  • Chopped basil
  • Chopped Parsley

Instructions

  • In a medium size pot, heat olive oil ( at least 2 tbsps), shallot, spices and salt
  • Add the arborio rice and mix so that the rice gets the coating with the spices
  • Add a cup of water and let to cook slowly
  • Keep adding water half cup at a time and stir so that there is no sticking
  • Add ½ cup of coconut milk and let rice is cooked
  • In a separate bowl add the mixture for filling.
  • Add cooked rice in the same bowl and mix well
  • Cover the bowl and place in fridge for at least 2 hours
  • Scoop mixture with and ice cream scoop, and roll in Panko 
  • Fry in light oil until golden brown and serve

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Sugar Cake

Sugar Cake

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  • 1 cup grated coconut
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 1tsp browning/ molasses
  • 1tbsp grated ginger
  • 2 bay-leaves
  • 1 stick cinnamon

Instructions

  • In a medium sized pot put coconut, sugar, water, molasses or browning, ginger, bay- leaves and cinnamon and stir mixture to make sure everything is incorporated
  • Bring to a boil
  • After 15 minutes reduce to a simmer and leave to continue cooking until coconut changes color
  • When coconut start pulling away from the sides of the pot turn off heat
  • Use a spoon to lay the sugar cake in drops and leave to cool.

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Oil Down with a Twist

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Ingredients

  • 1 Breadfruit peeled and chopped
  • ½ lb Salted pig tail par boiled, washed and chopped
  • ½ lb Salt fish boiled, skin removed and washed
  • 1lb Chicken (optional)
  • 3 medium Carrots chopped
  • 1lb-2lbs Callaloo
  • 1lb Spinach
  • 1lb pumpkin (optional)
  • ½ cabbage chopped (optional)
  • 1- 2 lbs Green banana peeled
  • 1 lb all purpose flour for dumpling
  • 1 14oz tin of coconut milk
  • 1 tbsp ground turmeric
  • ½ seasoning pepper
  • 1 -2 onion chopped
  • 2-3 Chives and thyme
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 6-8 cups of water

Instructions

  • Prepare all the ingredients ahead of time
  • In a large pot, pack ingredients putting breadfruit first, followed by green bananas, pigtail and saltfish in the middle, carrots and other vegetables, Seasoning (peppers and onions etc), dumplings and cover with callaloo or Spinach.
  • Add coconut milk and turmeric
  • Pour water and cover pot
  • Cook for about 1hour- 1 hour and half

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