
Jamaica / Breakfast
Ackee and saltfish
Jamaica's national dish: ackee fruit, which looks and behaves like scrambled egg, with soaked salt cod.
Ingredients
- Tinned ackee, drained540 g
- Salt cod, soaked overnight300 g
- Onion1
- Sweet pepper1
- Tomato2
- Spring onion3
- Thyme4 sprigs
- Scotch bonnet, whole, uncut1
- Neutral oil3 tbsp
- Black pepperto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 5 steps
Boil the soaked cod for twenty minutes, drain, cool it and flake it, discarding skin and bones.
Fry the onion and pepper in the oil for eight minutes, add the thyme and the whole scotch bonnet: uncut, it gives aroma without heat.
Add the cod and tomatoes and cook through for five minutes.
Tip in the ackee, add black pepper and warm it two minutes, swirling the pan only. No spatula.
Lift out the chilli and serve with fried plantain, bread or boiled ground provisions.





