Stew Peas

Ingredients

Stew Peas

2 cups Red Kidney Beans
½-1 lb salted pig’s tail
½ salt beef
½ beef stew
1 green scotch bonnet pepper
2 green onions
2 tsp thyme
2 chopped garlic
1 cup coconut milk
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp salt (optional)

Spinners
1 cup flour
1 tsp salt
Water to make dough

Instructions:

1. Mix ingredients together to make dough (not too soft, not too hard) 
2. Take a small piece of the dough and roll in the palm of your hands to form a long, thin dumpling. 
3. Take a small piece of the dough and roll in the palm of your hands to form a long, thin dumpling.

Instructions:

1. Wash and Soak kidney beans in water overnight.
2. Soak salted meat overnight in enough water to get rid of the salt or add salted meat in water and boil to get rid of salt. (May need to do this more than once with adding fresh water each time.)
3. Place the peas, meat and garlic in a pressure cooker for 30-45 minutes or until peas is soft.
4. Transfer everything including water from the pressure cooker into a sauce pan. Add coconut milk, thyme, green onions, scotch bonnet pepper and allspice in the sauce pan.

Jerk Chicken Burger

Ingredients
2 lbs ground chicken1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
Swiss cheese

Jerk Marinade
2 tsp pimento/allspice
½ tsp grated nutmeg
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp sugar
1 spring thyme
2 green onions
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
1-2 scotch bonnet pepper

2 tbsp. oil

Instructions

1. Wash, dry and season ground chicken with salt and black pepper. 
2. Add jerk marinade ingredients to blender and blend. Add jerk marinade to ground chicken and mix together. 
3. Grater 4 tbsp Swiss cheese and add to ground chicken and mix well. 
4. Form ground chicken into burger patties and place it in the oven on 350 degrees or place on a grill. Flip burger every couple minutes to avoid the burgers from burning. 
5. Once burger is cooked add Swiss cheese on top and place it back in the oven for 2 minutes. 
6. Serve hot on a burger bun with your favorite BBQ sauce and mango salsa 

Jamaican Fried Chicken

Jamaican Fried Chicken

Ingredients:

1 Whole Chicken

2 Eggs, beaten

Dry Ingredients

2 tsp salt

2 tsp cayenne pepper

2 tsp paprika

2 tsp ground pepper

2 cups flour

Wet Ingredients

2 Green onions

1 onion

1 spring thyme

½ -1 scotch bonnet peppers

Instructions

1.  Prepare chicken. Wash, cut, drain, add wet ingredients, add ½ of the dry ingredients to chicken and marinate for 30 minutes.
2.  Beat eggs and set aside. Add flour to a bowl and add the other half of the dry ingredients.
3.  Add chicken to egg then transfer to the flour batter. Ensure to do this individual so that each pieces of chicken can get a nice coating
4. Add oil to frying pan and allow to heat. Add chicken to oil and allow to fry on each side for 10 minutes on medium heat
5.  Serve hot. 

Video: https://youtu.be/9LttWeqaJZ8

Shrimp Rundown

Shrimp Rundown

Ingredients

2 lbs shrimp

1 Cup coconut milk

1 Onion

1 Tomato

1 Scotch bonnet pepper

1 Garlic

1 Bell pepper

1 Spring of thyme

2 spring escallion

½ tsp salt

½ tsp black pepper

2 tbsp vegetable oil

Instructions

1. Wash shrimp with lime/lemon juice and marinate with salt and black pepper.
2. Chop onion, tomato, scotch bonnet pepper, garlic, bell peppers, thyme and escallion and set aside.
3. In a frying pan add oil and sauté onion, tomato, scotch bonnet pepper, garlic and bell peppers.
4. Add shrimp to pan and cook until shrimp turns pink in colour.
5. Add coconut milk, thyme and escallion and cook for 8 minutes on medium heat.
6. Serve hot. 

Crunchy Coleslaw

Crunchy Coleslaw

Ingredients

4 cups cabbage

½ carrot

¼ cup raisins

¼ walnuts

¼ tbsp. sugar

1 tbsp. mayonnaise

½ tsp vinegar

Instructions

1.  Shred cabbage and carrot and place it into a bowl.
2.  Add raisins, walnuts, sugar, mayonnaise, vinegar and toss together.
3. Serve chill and enjoy.  

Watch here: https://youtu.be/TF-Qx-vbg2g

Jamaican Curried Chicken

Jamaican Curried Chicken

Ingredients

1 whole Chicken

1 Onion

2 Green onion/escallion

2 Garlic

1 spring thyme

½-1 Scotch bonnet pepper

2 Potatoes

2 tsp salt 

2 tsp ground pepper

2 tsp curry powder

2 tbsp cooking oil

2 tsp allspice

Instructions:

1. Wash chicken with lime or vinegar and cut chicken into 1½ pieces.
2.  Marinate chicken for 30 minute with salt, black pepper, curry powder, allspice, onion, garlic, green onion, thyme and scotch bonnet pepper.
3. Add oil to pan and brown (fry) chicken until curry powder is cooked.
4. Add water and potatoes cut in cubes to pan and set stove to medium heat. Allow the chicken to cook for roughly 30 minutes or until the chicken in tender.
5. Serve hot with rice, roti or any other side dish. 

Jamaican Potato Salad

Jamaican Potato Salad

Ingredients
3 Potatoes
¼ Chopped onions
¼ Chopped yellow bell peppe
¼ Chopped red bell pepper
1 Green onion/escallion
1 Can mixed vegetables
3-4 tbsp. mayonnaise 2 Eggs

Instructions

1. Peel potatoes and cut in medium size squares
2. Add pan with water and 1/2 tsp of salt on stove to boil.
3. Add eggs and potatoes to boiling water until cook. (Eggs can be cooked separately)
4. Drain potatoes, remove egg shells and cut eggs into 4 pieces.
5. Add all ingredients together, add mayonnaise and mix.
6. Add to serving dish and serve hot or cold. 

Watch here: https://youtu.be/FJ1jlRFLOYU

Jamaican Fried Festival

Jamaican Fried Festival 

Ingredients
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tsp.baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg
Cold water
Oil for frying

Instructions

1.Mix all ingredients together and add enough water to form a dough.
2. Divide into several portions and roll to desired shape.
3. Add to frying pan and fry until it is nice and golden brown.(Roughly 8 minute)
4. drain excess oil and serve hot.

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/AJl_cYaa6WI

Jamaican Steamed Fish

Jamaican Steamed Fish w/ Cracker

Ingredients

Fish

1 Chopped onions

1 Chopped tomatoes

1 Green onion/escallion

½ to 1 Grace Fish tea soup mix

½ lbs Chopped okra/ochroes

1 spring thyme

½ Jamaican scotch bonnet pepper

Instructions

1.Wash fish in lime/lemon juice
2.Seasoned with salt and black pepper
3.Add grace fish tea soup mix in 1 cup of water
and mix.
4.Add fish tea mix to pan and wait until it comes
to a boil.
5.Add okra, tomatoes, and onion, scotch bonnet
pepper, thyme, onions, green onions and fish to soup mix.
6.Flip fish to ensure both sides are equally cooked.
7.Add Jamaican water cracker and allow to for 3
minutes and serve hot.

Video: https://youtu.be/OQhMfZLIQec

Deep Fried Okra/ochroes

Fried Okra

Ingredients

1/2 lb, okra/ochroes

1/4 cup cornmeal

1/4 cup flour

½ teaspoon salt

1/4 cup oil

Instructions:

1. Wash okra/ochroes and drain

2. Mix cornmeal, flour and salt set aside

3. Beat egg

4. Add okra/ochroes to egg then in cornmeal mixture to
coat.

5. Heat oil in a pan and add ochroes/okra to fry until
golden.

6. Put okra on paper towel to drain.

7. Sprinkle salt and serve.
Video: https://youtu.be/PuA2od6bXW4