Tonight I'm going to........?

Question

have Ackee and Salt-fish. Does anyone know what this is?

10 points up for grabs to the first good description.

dodilinaxx, that is it, but did you just google it, or have you eaten it?

It's my favourite food.
Ackee is this fruit like little berries with a yellow fleshy inside, which is what you use in cooking. It tastes like heaven, and mixed with salted cod and chilli and onion it tastes divine

I'm having it with green banana, yam and dumplings. Yummy., I just have to wait for my husband to come back from shopping and cook it for me.

Answer 1

This is Jamaica’s National dish known as the Jamaican Coat of Arms.
Ackee is a fruit from a tree that bears bright orange/red fruit. As the fruit ripens the outer layer opens to reveal yellow edible pods with black seeds, the Ackee. This is a delicious dish that is usually prepared with saltfish (cod fish) and serve with yam, dumplings, fried or boiled bananas and plantains or rice.

Salt cod is sautéed with ackee (boiled), onions, peppers, tomatoes, herbs, and may be garnished with crisp bacon and fresh tomatoes.

2 dozen ackees in pods (or 1 tin of ackees)
1 sprig thyme
½ lb (150 g) salt cod fish 1 hot pepper
2 tablespoons (1oz, 25 g) butter 1
small tomato, chopped
¼ cup (2. fl oz, 50 ml) oil
2 onions sliced, black pepper

Choose ackees that are completely open, with the black seed and yellow fruit clearly visible in the scarlet pod.
This is important, as unripe ackees contain a highly toxic substance.Remove the ackees from the pods.
Discard the seeds and the pink membrane found in the cleft of each fruit.
Wash them and put them to boil in a large pot of water with the salt fish.
Or tie them in a muslin bag and drop the bag into the water with the fish.This prevents the ackees from disintegrating.)
As soon as the ackees are tender, pour the contents of the pot into a large sieve, discarding the water.
Separate the ackees from the fish. Run some cold water over the fish so that you can remove the bones
and skin comfortably, then flake it and set it aside. (If using tinned ackees,
empty them into a sieve then rinse under cold running water and set aside.
Boil saltfish for 15-20 minutes). Put the butter and oil to heat in a frying pan.
Add the onions, thyme and hot pepper slices, and the tomato if desired. Stir for a few minutes then add the flaked fish.
Stir for a few more minutes then add the drained ackees, carefully stirring so as not to crush them this is a matter of taste,
as some people do not like the ackees crushed. Add a little more oil if necessary,
sprinkle with plenty of freshly ground black pepper, and the dish is ready.

Serve it decorated with halved hard-boiled eggs. If the dish is a main course, avocado pear slices, fried plantains,
bammies, yams, dumplings and roasted breadfruit all make fine accompaniments. Serves 4.

Ackee and saltfish also makes a very good starter when served with thin slices of avocado, or as ackee pie:
line a pie tin with pastry, fill it with ackee and saltfish, sprinkle with cheese, and bake for 45 minutes at 4000F, 200oC, gas 6.

Serve hot!

Answer 2

It's a Jamaican dish.

Salt fish is dried, salted cod and ackee is a fruit.

Answer 3

This isn't even up for discussion. To even compare those hacks to the Smashing Pumpkins is an insult to Billy Corgan and the rest of the Pumpkins. Time is never time at all, you can never ever leave.

Answer 4

I've had salt cod...in many Mediterranean countries, but no idea what Ackee is...do enlighten us with an edit...is it nice.

Answer 5

Jamaican food

Answer 6

Some sort of seafood dish?

Answer 7

be mark king from level.42.damn wrong question

Answer 8

Nope, but ur gonna tell us right? x

Answer 9

I do, and its very nice you are very lucky have some for me

Answer 10

some sort of seafood