Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, ackee and saltfish fritters. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Saltfish fritters are a Jamaican favourite and ackee and saltfish is the national dish. I've married the two and created these ackee stuffed saltfish fritters, the best of both in one amazing bite! Course Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish Feather light and chock full of flavour these easy Jamaican ackee fritters are delicious by themselves or dipped.
Ackee and Saltfish Fritters is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Ackee and Saltfish Fritters is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ackee and saltfish fritters using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ackee and Saltfish Fritters:
- Take 2 cup saltfish (salted cod)
- Get 3/4 cup all-purpose flour (more or less)
- Prepare 1/2 cup water
- Take 1 can ackee (if you want just saltfish fritters just omit this)
- Take 1 1/4 tsp dried thyme
- Get 2 Green onions, chopped
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/4 Scotch bonnet pepper,minced (more if you like it spicy)
- Take 1 egg
- Prepare salt and pepper (if you removed to much of the salt from the fish)
- Take 2 cup oil for frying
- Get 2 garlic cloves,minced
Great with friends and an ice cold Red Stripe beer! The quickly fried morsels of dough puffs with sprink. Saltfish Fritters Directions In a large bowl place counter flour, flaked saltfish, chopped onion, escallion and diced tomatoes and mix well. Gradually add water to make a smooth batter, then egg (if used).
Steps to make Ackee and Saltfish Fritters:
- Wash and rinse the saltfish, then boil/cook the salt fish, drain then bring to boil again, cool then continue with the rest of the recipe (this is to mainly cook out all that extra salt)
- Drain and rinse the can of ackee and set aside.
- Using your hands, shred the saltfish in a large bowl
- Add the rest of the ingredients, except the ackee and oil and mix to combine.
- Slowly fold in the ackee, trying not to mush it too much (you want some bigger pieces in there)
- Heat the oil in a pan to medium, drop spoonfuls of mixture and fry until golden brown. ENJOY! 😊
To prepare the dish, salt cod is sautéed with boiled ackee, onions, Scotch Bonnet peppers, tomatoes and spices. It is usually served as breakfast or dinner alongside breadfruit, hard dough bread, dumplings, fried plantain, or boiled green bananas. Ackee and Saltfish can also be eaten with rice and peas or plain white rice. For the saltfish, soak the salt cod overnight, changing the water a couple of times. Drain, then put the cod in a large pan of fresh water and bring to the boil.
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