Caribean recipes?

Question

My bf is from Grenada and I need to know how to cook the food he likes. Any ideas? I'm not a great cook, so it needs to be pretty simple.

Answer 1

I love and hate cooking someone's hometown food because they really appreciate but you always feel so pressured to make it right! I found some recipes for you, hope one of them works hun! A lot of them are long and complicated, unfortunately, Caribean cooking takes a lot of time but is worth the flavor.

Carribean Lobster Stew w/Fritters

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound chorizo sausage, sliced 1/2-inch thick
2 cups onions, julienned
8 cups lobster, shrimp or fish stock
12 whole cloves of garlic, peeled
2 green chiles, sliced into thin rings
3 cups roughly chopped assorted greens, such as collards, mustards, turnip, chard, dandelion, beet greens or spinach
2 cups chopped tomatoes
3 oranges, juiced
2 spiny or maine lobsters, cut in half
Salt
Crushed red pepper flakes
1/2 cup coconut milk
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves
1 recipe of spicy fritters
1 recipe red pepper mayonnaise
In a large pot, with a lid, over medium heat, add the 1 tablespoon of olive oil. When the oil is hot, add the sausage and onions. Saute for 2 minutes. Stir in the stock, garlic, and chiles, bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 60 minutes.
Add the greens, tomatoes, orange juice and lobster halves. Season with salt and crushed red pepper. Simmer for 30 minutes. Stir in the coconut milk and cilantro. To serve, place the lobster halves in the center of each shallow bowl. Spoon the broth over each lobster. Garnish with fritters and a drizzle of the mayonnaise.
Spicy Fritters:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup chopped onions
Salt
Crushed red pepper
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 1/4 cups flour
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Crystal hot sauce, to taste
Worcestershire sauce, to taste
Solid vegetable shortening for deep frying
Creole seasoning
Heat the oil in a saute pan over medium heat.
Add the onions and season with salt and crushed red pepper. Saute for about 3 minutes, or until slightly wilted. Add the garlic, and continue to saute for 1 minute. Remove and set aside to cool.
Make a batter by combining the 3 eggs, milk, and baking powder. Add the flour, 1/4 cup at a time, beating until all is used and the batter is smooth. Season with salt. Stir in the parsley. Season with hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce to taste. Mix well.
Heat the shortening to 360 degrees F. Drop the batter, a heaping tablespoon at a time, into the hot oil. When the fritters pop to the surface, roll them around with a slotted spoon in the oil to brown them evenly. Remove and drain on paper towels.

Sweet Potato Pudding

Ingredients
4 cups of sweet potatoes
1 tablespoon lime juice
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup coconut milk
1/4 cup of rum
grated rind of lime
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon powdered cinnamon
1 tablespoon raisins

To mashed potatoes, add sugar gradually and whole eggs, one at at time, mixing well after each addition. Mix in butter with a fork. Add milk. Blend well. mix in grated rind of oime juice.
Add rum. Mix well. Add salt, baking powder and cinnamon, sifted together. Mix. Add raisings.

Mix well. Pour this mixture into a greased pan and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) about 50 minutes, until done.

Black Beans & Rice

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 small green bell pepper, seeded and finely chopped
2 tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped
Salt and black pepper, to taste
2 cups cooked black beans
1 cup uncooked rice
2 cups cold water
Method:
Heat the oil in a saucepan and add the onion, garlic and pepper. Sauté until the onion is tender. Add the tomatoes and cook, stirring, until the mixture is well blended and thick. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir in the black beans and mix well. Add rice and water, mixing lightly. cover and cook over very low heat until rice is tender and water is absorbed.

Jerk Chicken

1 whole chicken, halved
1 lime, halved
Pinch salt
4 to 5 tablespoons of Jerk Rub seasoning, recipe follows
8 to 12 pimento (allspice) leaves, for flavor, optional
Rub the chicken with lime and salt. Rub jerk seasoning over chicken halves. Marinate in the refrigerator overnight for the best results.
Preheat a barbecue grill to medium high.
If using, spread the pimento leaves on the grill. Barbecue should be on medium-low heat. Grill the chicken for about 45 minutes, turning often to optimize cooking and browning.
Alternatively, you may use your home oven, heated to 375 degrees F., but do not use pimento leaves.
Let chicken sit for 10 minutes before cutting into quarters.
Jamaican Jerk Rum Rub:
1 red onion, chopped
1 1/2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 teaspoons white pepper
1/4 cup chopped green onion tops
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
5 small jalapenos
2 tablespoons cooking oil (olive or vegetable)
Splash flavorful rum

Answer 2

It is so rare to find dried lime powder without the seed because the seed gives the flavor a butter taste.

5 table spoon of black lime powder.
cut the lamb meat to cubes.
in the mixer put 5 onions and table spoon of vinegar and black pepper and 3 table spoon of soy sauce, mix them well, finally add salary for 1 minutes with squeeze of lemon.
add the mixture to the meat and don't forget to put the salt before grilling it.
put the meat in the skewers and grill it on the charcoal
It is not a Caribean but it is going to let your bf wish to be with you for ever.

Answer 3

Caribean Pirates' Vegetable Pecan Stuffing
This is from their cookbook.
1/2 cup butter
1 cup onions, finely chopped
1 cup celery, finely chopped
2 tablespoons parsley, finely chopped
1 cup pecans, chopped
2 large eggs, well beaten
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1 cup saltine crumbs
1 cup breadcrumbs, stale
1 cup chicken stock, use as needed

Answer 4

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Caribbean Hot and Spicy Meat Loaf

1 1/2 lbs. lean ground beef
2 tsps. dry mustard

1 onion, grated
1 egg, lightly beaten

2 tsps. salt
1/4 tsp. thyme

1/2 cup bread crumbs
1 celery stalk, chopped finely

2 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp. black pepper

1/2 cup evaporated milk
2 tsps. hot pepper sauce





Combine beef with seasonings, add pepper sauce, and mix well. Add bread crumbs. In a separate bowl, beat egg lightly and combine with milk. Add to beef mixture, and mix well. Pour into well greased ovenproof dish and sprinkle with bread crumbs. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 45 minutes. Serve hot. A fresh cucumber salad makes a tasty side dish.

Enjoy!

Answer 5

Stuffed Avocado Salad Ingredients two avocado pears a million tomato a million head lettuce Pepper and salt to style four oz.. peas or cooked beans two oz.. grated cheese Salad cream two tough boiled eggs a million medium cucumber two tablespoons bitter or candy pickle two tablespoons lime juice two tablespoons chopped nuts Wash lettuce and installed included bowl in fridge to cool, pressure peas from inventory. Wash and slice cucumber and upload salt to style. Cut avocado pears lengthwise and peel off epidermis. Place avocados in bowl and sprinkle with lime juice. Cover. Mix in combination pickle, cheese, peas and season for stuffing. Fill hollows of avocados. Place two wedges of tomatoes in every part. Arrange on a mattress of lettuce. Lay cucumber slices of tough boiled eggs on dish round avocados. Dot with salad cream and sprinkle with chopped nuts. Cassava Bread Flat, white, circular biscuit-like bread made via Amerindians in Guyana. Ingredients Bitter cassava Salt to style Preparation Peel, wash and grate the cassava. Squeeze out as a lot of the juice as feasible, utilising both a matapee or via wringing in a towel. The juice can be utilized for making cassareep. Leave in lumps and permit to dry quite in outdoors. Pound, sift and upload salt. Heat a griddle and a steel hoop of the dimensions of cake required. Put adequate of the cassava meal to a intensity of approximately a million/eight - ¼ inch within the hoop. Cook till set, utilising mild warmth. Remove the ring, degree the skin and press firmly. Turn onto the opposite part and prepare dinner. When cooked by way of, cast off the cake and solar-dry till crisp. Note: Cassava bread is also flippantly toasted and butter unfold on one part for a scrumptious snack. Sauteed Chicken Breast Ingredients: 7 kgs. Chicken Breast a million kg. Papaya two bots. two lbs. Butter a million gal. Oil two kgs. Onion two kgs. Tomato a million pkg. Brown Sugar a million pkg. Salt a million pkg. Black Pepper a million doz. Scotch Bonnet Pepper a million lb. Garlic a million lb. Thyme. METHOD Cut every fowl breast into 3 portions and flatten quite, season with salt and pepper. Place a million Tbsp. of butter right into a non-stick frying pan, location over med./prime flame, and upload chopped garlic. Add fowl breast and permit to saute. Add chopped onions, tomatoes, diced papaya and saute for 5 mins. Add scotch bonnet and thyme. Add brown sugar and deliver to simmer for 5 mins. Ready to serve. Sweet Potato Pudding Ingredients four cups of candy potatoes a million tablespoon lime juice three/four cup sugar two eggs two tablespoons butter a million/two cup coconut milk a million/four cup of rum grated rind of lime a million/four teaspoon salt a million/two teaspoon baking powder a million/two teaspoon powdered cinnamon a million tablespoon raisins To mashed potatoes, upload sugar regularly and entire eggs, one at at time, blending good after every addition. Mix in butter with a fork. Add milk. Blend good. combine in grated rind of oime juice. Add rum. Mix good. Add salt, baking powder and cinnamon, sifted in combination. Mix. Add raisings. Mix good. Pour this combo right into a greased pan and bake in a mild oven (350 levels) approximately 50 mins, till performed. Makes eight servings.