Drain salmon, remove skin and bones. Crush salmon in a big plate, add lemon juice, salt, pepper, mustard and mayonnaise and mix well. Then add chopped sweet pickles and chopped celery. Spread on slices of buttered bread, cover with buttered bread and cut diagonally into two or into tour as liked.
Recipe by:Chef Yolande Cools-Lartigue, author of The Art of Caribbean Cooking.
Jamaican hot pepper shrimp is one of the more popular “shrimp” Caribbean dishes. This peel-n-eat shrimp recipe will excite your taste buds, making you want more and more.
Jumbo shrimps, in a broth made from scallions, garlic, thyme, black pepper and garnished with mango and shredded coconut flakes. Serve with your favorite Caribbean drink or a very cold beer.
Jamaican Hot Pepper Shrimp Ingredients: The Broth
4 large Scallions – rough chopped
6 cloves garlic – crushed
2 tablespoons Thyme – fresh leaves
1 large habanero chile – seeded & chopped
2 tablespoons kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon Black pepper – cracked or coarse ground
1 tablespoon Allspice berries
The Shrimp
1 pound large shrimp – shell on(20-30 count)
Garnish
1 tablespoon Coconut – shredded or flakes
1 large Mango – peeled & cubed
1 ounce Dark rum – optional
Instructions for Jamaican Hot Pepper Shrimp:
Bring 4 – 5 cups of water to a boil and add the Broth ingredients. The peppers will give off a strong vapor at first so you’ll want to have ventilation available. You can adjust the number and type of peppers to your taste but this should be a spicy dish. Lower the hear and simmer the broth for about 30 minutes.
Return the broth to a boil, add the shrimp and allow it to cook for a couple of minutes until the shrimp just start to turn pink. Then turn off the heat and leave the shrimp in the pot while it cools to room temperature. This should take about 20 – 30 minutes.
When the shrimp are cooled remove them from the broth and allow them to drain briefly.
Splash the rum over the mango and mix in the coconut shreds. Place a small amount of this mixture on the plate and scatter shrimp over it.
In nearly every island in the Caribbean you travel too, there is a strong chance that you will come across vendors on the side to road selling grilled plantains. Grilled plantains recipe has been around in the Caribbean for centuries – my grandma did it and so did her mother. Back in the day when flour was still a luxury to item have at home, grilled or roasted plantains were substituted for bread.
Plantains can be cooked at any stage of ripeness and they’re a great source of folate, a nutrient which plays a vital role in cancer prevention. Try your hand this recipe – you will love it.
3 soft black plantains, unpeeled (about 1 1/2 pounds)
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper
Cooking spray
6 lime wedges
Method:
Prepare grill to medium heat. Cut plantains in half lengthwise. Cut plantain halves in half crosswise. Combine butter, sugar, and pepper; brush evenly over cut sides of plantain sections.
Place plantain sections, cut sides up, on grill rack coated with cooking spray; grill 7 minutes or until flesh is soft and skins begin to pull away from the flesh. Turn plantain sections over; grill 3 minutes. Serve warm with lime wedges.
Recipe by:Bill and Cheryl Jamison , Cooking Light, MAY 2003 Photo By:Karry Hosford via myrecipes.com
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