Festival Recipe »

INGREDIENTS :

1 1/2 cups flour
3 tablespoons cornmeal
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
2/3 cup water

METHOD:

Sift the flour, baking powder,salt, and cornmeal and combine.
Add the sugar and stir.
Add the vanilla to the water, and then add the mixture to the dry ingredients,binding to form a soft dough.
Knead lightly.
Leave covered for about 1/2 [...]

Fried Green Plantains Recipe »

INGREDIENTS :

2 green plantains
1 tablespoon salt
METHOD:
1. Peel plantain by making 2 incisions on opposite sides of the plantain skin.
2. Please save the skin and try not to break it.
3. Lay the plantain on a cuttinq board & cut the plantain into 1 inch slices in the middle (width, not length – like breaking a banana [...]

Cornmeal Porridge Recipe »

INGREDIENTS :

1 cup fine yelllow cornmeal
3 cups water
1 cup milk
1/4 teaspoonnutmeg
sugar to taste or fat free condensed milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons fat free condensed milk or sugar totaste
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

METHOD:

Mix cornmeal in 1 cup water.
Bring remainder of water and milk to boil and stir in cornmeal and salt.
Cook for about 10-12 mins.
Add [...]

Saltfish Fritters -Jamaica Stamp n’ Go »

INGREDIENTS :

1/4 raw saltfish (codfish)
1/4 flour
1 small clove garlic
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1 large onion
3 stalks of scallion
2 large tomatoes
1/4 scotch bonnet pepper

METHOD:

Wash and dry the saltfish.
Use your hands and shred the saltfish finely and set aside in a mixing bowl.
Cut the onions, garlic, scallion, pepper and tomatoes in to fine pieces.
Combine the onions, garlic, scallion, pepper [...]

Roti Recipe »

INGREDIENTS :

1 cup wheat flour (preferably from an Indian store)
2 tbsp. oil
Salt and enough water to make dough

METHOD:
1. Knead the wheat flour, salt and water to make dough.
2. Let the dough stand for half hour.
3. Take small portions, knead again, dust with flour and roll out into a round shape.
4. Cook in (flat) griddle with [...]

Banana Porridge Recipe »

INGREDIENTS :

3 fingers of green bananas
1 cup milk
5 cups water
1/2cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt sugar to taste nutmeg [vanilla optional]

METHOD:

Wash,peal and grate bananas
Add flour and salt to grated bananas and mix well.
Beat mixture with fork while adding water until smooth.
Sweeten to taste and add nutmeg and vanilla.
Pour mixture into boiling water, stirring constantly to prevent lumping, [...]

Papaya Ice Cream Patch Recipe »

INGREDIENTS :

2 small Papayas (papaws) ( about 3 inches in diameter)
Rum raisin ice cream
caramel
4 tablespoons of nutmeg

METHOD:

Slice Papayas (papaws) in half.
Scoop out seeds with a spoon.
Place the 4 halves upright in the center of their own desert plates
Add a large scope of ice cream in the center of each Papaya (papaw).
Pour warm caramel over the [...]

Banana Fritters Recipe »

INGREDIENTS :

3 bananas
2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup milk
6 tablespoons flour
1/2 grated nutmeg

METHOD:

Crush bananas till they are creamed.
Combine flour, baking powder, sugar and nutmeg.
Add milk and bananas then mix.
Dip a large spoon in oil and spoon scoop batter into frying pan.
Deep fry in a frying pan till brown and crisp on the edges.
Drain [...]

Johnny Cakes – Fried Dumpling »

INGREDIENTS :

4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1.5 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup cold water
1 cup vegetable oil for frying
METHOD:
1. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together into a large mixing bowl. Cut in the butter or margarine until the mixture forms marble-sized doughballs. Add the water 1 teaspoon at a time, just [...]

Fried Ripe Plantains Recipe »

INGREDIENTS :

1 ripe plantain
1 tablespoon cinnmon or nutmeg
METHOD:
1. Peel
plantain by making 2 incisions on opposite sides of the plantain skin and then peel.
2. Slice the plantains into 2 in the middle (width not length – like breaking a banana in 2).
3. Cut up both pieces of plantains into 1/4 inch slices longways.
4. Heat skillet filled [...]