Salt Pork With Spinach Rice And Fish Curry With Mango: Keshia Sakarah’s Recipes For Caribbean Main Courses

Starting pinch nan Bahamas successful nan northbound and ending pinch Trinidad and Tobago conscionable supra Venezuela, nan islands of nan Caribbean are peculiarly unsocial because they person been influenced by different communities from crossed nan world, from Africa, India, China, Syria, Lebanon and beyond. All of which helps make our cuisine truthful eclectic, yet someway besides truthful akin correct crossed nan culinary culture.

Bhaji atom pinch salted pork (pictured top)

Spinach is often called bhaji successful nan Caribbean, nary uncertainty derived from nan various Indian communities who migrated here. This is conscionable 1 of nan galore delicious one-pot atom dishes recovered successful our accepted cooking, and features spinach, pumpkin, coconut beverage and salted pork. The second would usually mean salted pig tail, but present I’ve utilized pork shoulder, because it’s a small much accessible and because it has overmuch much nutrient connected it and is acold little fatty. You’ll request to brackish it for astatine slightest 2 days successful advance.

Prep 25 min
Salt 48 hr+
Cook 1 hr 30 min
Serves 4-6

For nan salted pork
500g pork shoulder, trimmed and trim into mean chunks
2 tbsp fine oversea salt
1 tbsp white sugar

For nan atom stew
3 tbsp oliva oil, aliases rapeseed oil
1 brownish onion, peeled and finely diced
3 ail cloves, peeled and crushed
8 okra, thinly sliced
200g caller spinach leaves, finely chopped
150g pumpkin flesh, aliases butternut squash flesh, grated
500g jasmine rice, rinsed
400ml tin coconut milk
¾ tbsp flaky oversea salt, aliases to taste
1 tsp crushed achromatic aliases achromatic pepper
1 caller bay leaf
15g coriander leaves and soft stalks, aliases chadon beni or Thai parsley, finely chopped
1 scotch bonnet, divided successful half lengthways (if you for illustration little heat, time off it unsplit)
A fewer sprigs caller thyme

Put nan pork, brackish and sweetener successful a bowl, operation to coat, cover, past put successful nan fridge for astatine slightest 48 and up to 72 hours, truthful it gets good salted.

Rinse nan nutrient to region nan excess salt, put it successful a mean pan, adhd capable acold h2o to cover, and bring to a boil. Turn down nan power to a mean simmer, time off to navigator for 40-50 minutes, until nan nutrient is bully and tender, past drain.

Put nan lipid successful a ample saucepan connected a mean heat. Once it’s hot, adhd nan onions and garlic, and cook, stirring, for a mates of minutes, until soft. Add nan sliced okra, navigator for a infinitesimal aliases truthful to soften that, too, past operation successful nan poached salted pork, spinach and pumpkin. Mix good and navigator for conscionable a fewer minutes more, conscionable until nan pumpkin takes connected a small colour.

Turn down nan power a small truthful nan spinach doesn’t drawback and burn, and support stirring for a infinitesimal aliases truthful – nan juices released by nan nutrient and veg should extremity nan contents of nan cookware from drying out. Stir successful nan rice, move successful 450ml h2o and nan coconut milk, past play pinch nan salt, pepper, bay leafage and coriander.

Turn up nan power to medium-high, then, erstwhile it’s bubbling away, move down to a simmer and flick nan thyme and scotch bonnet into nan atom – this way, nan chilli will merchandise its power slow and flavour nan full pot. Cover nan cookware and time off to navigator for 25-35 minutes, until nan atom has absorbed astir of nan liquid and is tender and cooked done – support checking connected it occasionally. This crockery is meant to beryllium rather bedewed and sticky, truthful if nan liquid gets absorbed excessively quickly or/and earlier nan atom is cooked, adhd a small other water.

Ladle into bowls and service hot.

Fish curry pinch greenish mango

Keshia Sakarah’s food curry pinch greenish mango.

This is based connected a Guyanese crockery called gilbaka food curry. It’s usually made pinch nan food recovered successful nan galore rivers that tally done nan Amazon rainforest to nan bluish regions of Brazil, earlier yet arriving astatine nan Atlantic Ocean. I’ve utilized haddock to imitate nan meatiness of those stream fish.

Prep 20 min
Marinate 1 hr+
Cook 45 min
Serves 4

For nan caller seasoning
1 mini onion, peeled and finely chopped
2 outpouring onions, trimmed and finely sliced
5-6 ail cloves, peeled
1½ scotch bonnet peppers

For nan curry
600g portion caller haddock fillet, trim into 4 steaks
4 tbsp curry powder
2 tbsp amchar masala, aliases garam masala
1 tbsp herb paste
4 tbsp rapeseed oil, aliases rootlike oil
1 mean tomato, diced
1 unripe greenish mango, halved, stoned and trim into skin-on slices
1 tbsp tamarind paste
1 tbsp oversea salt, aliases to taste
¼ tsp crushed achromatic pepper

First make nan caller seasoning blend. Put each nan onions successful a mortar pinch nan ail and scotch bonnet, past grind to a paste (alternatively, beat successful a blender). Towards nan end, adhd up to 60ml acold h2o to thief make a soft paste.

Put nan food steaks successful a bowl, adhd a 3rd of nan seasoning paste, past swipe each complete nan food to coat. Cover and marinate successful nan fridge for astatine slightest an hr and up to overnight.

Next, make nan curry paste. Put each nan remaining seasoning paste successful a bowl, adhd nan curry powder, amchar masala, herb paste and 4 tablespoons of acold water, and operation good to combine.

Put nan lipid successful a large, heavy-based cookware connected a mean heat, past adhd nan curry paste – return care, because it whitethorn spit. Stir-fry nan paste for a mates of minutes, until it starts to smell very fragrant, astir of nan liquid evaporates and nan lipid starts to separate. Stir successful nan chopped caller herb – astatine this stage, nan operation will merchandise much lipid and nan spices whitethorn commencement to drawback a bit, truthful support an oculus connected things – and navigator for 4 aliases 5 minutes, until nan tomatoes soften and commencement to break down.

Add nan greenish mango, operation to coat, past time off to navigator for a fewer minutes, to soften a little. Stir successful nan tamarind paste, salt, capsicum and 300ml water, move up nan power slightly, truthful nan operation comes to a simmer,then time off to navigator for different 8 to 10 minutes.

Drop nan food into nan curry, on pinch each nan seasoning from nan bowl, push down mildly to screen successful nan sauce, past time off to poach for 10-12 minutes, until it’s cooked done – don’t move it excessively overmuch aliases it whitethorn break up. Once nan food is cooked, nan curry is fresh to service pinch atom aliases roti.

• Keshia Sakarah is simply a chef, nutrient writer and nutrient educator. Her book, Caribe: A Caribbean Cookbook pinch History, is published by Quadrille astatine £30. To bid a transcript for £27, spell to guardianbookshop.com