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The Best Jamaican Food Recipes

Jamaican food recipes are some of my favorite recipes that are prepared in a heart-healthy, lower in fat, especially saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium.

Jamaican Foods are spicy and pungent, can be greasy and filing, a blend of African, Chinese, Indian and European mix.

Recipes

Ackee And Saltfish
Ackee is Jamaican's national dish. This red skinned fruit, which is treated like a vegetable, and can only be eaten after the pod opens. Unripe and un-open ackee is poisonous. The seeds are discarded and the lobes are carefully cleaned of a thin red membrane before being boiled.

Ingredients

1 dozen ackees	1/2 lb saltfish
1 small onion	2 cloves garlic
1 sprig thyme - chopped	1 teaspoon black pepper
1 small red sweet pepper or red bell pepper	2 tablespoon paprika powder
4 tablespoon olive oil, or grapeseed oil

Cooking Instructions

Soak saltfish overnight or for three hours. Refill pot with fresh water then boil for 10 minutes. Strain off hot water, run cold water over saltfish to cool then pick-up or flake into small pieces.
Boil ackee for 2 minutes only, strain and put aside.

Heat oil and saute thinly sliced onion, sweet pepper, garlic, paprika, black pepper, thyme in a saucepan.

Then add and stir in saltfish and ackee, cover and simmer for three minutes on very low heat.

Ackee is usually eaten for Sunday breakfast and served with either boiled green banana, fried plantains, fried flour dumplings or roasted breadfruit.

Curried Goat Recipe

Goat is another favorite of Jamaican food recipes.

Ingredients

3 lbs goat meat	2 onion
4 tablespoon curry powder	3 stalks escallion
1 Scotch Bonnet pepper	4 stalks thyme
2 tablespoon salt

Cooking Instructions

Wash goat meat, drain then add all the seasonings. Let stand for a hour or overnight in refrigerator.

Place meat with all the seasonings in a dutch pot, add a cup of water, cover and simmer. Keep adding 2 cups of water and cook until tender.

To make gravy just add 2 tablespoon of bread crumbs and let simmer for another three minutes.

Serve with brown rice.

Jerk Chicken

The term jerk refers to the special spices used to season the chicken.

Ingredients

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

8 pieces of chicken	1 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 hot pepper,chopped	2 teaspoons oregano, crushed
3 stalks thyme, chopped	6 cloves finely chopped garlic
1 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice	2 onions, chopped

1/4 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
3 tablespoon brown sugar	1 cup water
2 tablespoon lime juice	1 tablespoon Cinnamon power

Cooking Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Combine all the seasonings then rub seasonings over chicken.

Marinate in refrigerator for six hours or more.

Place chicken in nonstick or lightly greased baking pan. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 40 minutes. Then remove foil and continue banking until meat can be easily pulled away from bone with a fork.

Hopefully, your taste buds were opened by our Jamaican food recipes and by making small changes in the way you and your family cooks and eat, you can help reduce your risk for heart disease and stroke.

Keep the heart of your family strong.

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