what i've noticed though, is that one can of ackee wasn't enough for half pound of salt fish. I had to use two can. gonna try again today, but using olive oil this time and making sure the onions are sautéd completely. last time the onions were hard......and i didn't have enough ackee. it'll be perfect dis time. yu wau some? by di way, yu check out di book yet?
thanks to you i can go and impress my wife now. i live in japan where you can hardly get ackee, but I'm now in the states temporarily on a book tour (i wrote a book about being jamaican in japan for the last ten years.) and will eat as much ackee as possible for the year i'll be here.
@blackpassenger Hello, what is the title of your book? That sounds like an interesting read. My son is living in Kingston and I think living in Jamaica is quite difficult as it is so different to Lancashire England and yet it is how I imagine paradise to be. Japan I am very interested in. Such different lifestyles to Jamaica. One is laid back and the other so organised. Regards Denise
@demise234 wow, i used your recipe and my A&S came out perrrrrrrrfectly. its sooooo good. I'm going to try next time using olive oil instead of butter, only because olive oil is healthier. anyway, my book is called black passenger yellow cabs: a memoir of exile and excess in japan. its available everywhere, of course including amazon. let me know if you'd like a signed copy, we could work out something on paypal. check the trailer on my channel
Tried ackee in Jamaica early November for the first time ever, saw the trees with what I thought were red pears but it was the ackee. Love it . Just managed to find a canned version in Tesco. Looking forward to making this dish. Amazing fruit. Also enjoyed dragon egg. In fact I enjoyed everything except boiled dumplings. Even pig tail is good properly cooked.
I'm a vegetarian trying to cook Ackee and Saltfish for my Jamaican wife. (That's another way of saying I'm trying to apologize to her.)
My question is.....When you shed the saltfish, do you shed it with the skin off or on? (With a question like this you can tell I'm not Jamaican, even though I had Ackee before.)
I made this dish for the first time last night and it came out really tasty. Thanks for this video!
I don't normally respond to belligerence but to the commenter who told scolded the cook for using tinned ackees; do you realize that not everyone on earth lives in a climate where ackees can be bought fresh?
Instead of celebrating our culture you've only managed to make us look brutish. There was just no reason dress her down that way. Shame on you.
that is no the way real Jamaicans cook Ackee and salt fish, i think you should leave this demonstration to a Jamaican who cooks. we don't use fake salt fish and tin ackee is for di Jamerican dem it can not compare to fresh produce. So if you going to rep fi Jamaica do di right thing or go sleep
IF I HAD KNOWN ACKEE WAS SO EXPENSIVE I WOULD HAVE NEVER WALK MY PREGNANT BEHIND 5 BLOCKES TO GET IT. LOL. YEAH I LEFT IT RIGHT THERE. JUST GONNA MAKE PLAIN SALT FISH NOW.
Only green Ackee is poisonous n even tho we all do thing differently congrats on sharing Caribbean culture...ackee is naturally fattening adding butter is kind of a bit much.
How about using palm oil and not mashing the Ackee and Saltfish together. My corner shop guy told me if you don't know how to prepare Ackee, don't cook it, it can be poisonous. I am not sure what he was on about. I love Bob Marley!
not everyone mashes it like that. my grandma boils the ackee for 6 minutes before she simmers it with the rest of the ingredients for 15 minutes. If ackee is cooked well it is not poisinous. The outer shell is the part that is dangerous as well as the seeds and those are discarded before they are canned.
This sounds so good. I love salt fish & ackee. I love fresh ackee, my dad has an ackee tree in Panama in the back of his shop. I miss having this for breakfast. I have had this in Trelawny & Montego Bay Jamaica with & without tomato, both were good. I'm going to fix for breakfast with some traditional Panamanian Tortillas (Corn Cakes), Sweet Plantain, Potato Pancakes (without the sour cream & apple sauce) Fresh cinnamon tea w/milk (soy vanilla) & fresh bread w/cheese. Mmmmmm
I love ackee, but I would never eat it with saltfish. Ackee is a great vegetarian alternative! Don't spoil it with FISH. Rasta man agrees with me on this.
Not a criticism but a comment and my personal opinion. I personally don't know anyone that cooks A&S with butter!! I've tasted it once and it was awful - the butter completely destroyed the taste of the Ackee. Also, they way in which you flaked the saltfish was very fine and mashing up the ackee in the saltfish rather than gently stirring it makes it look like mashed up food and unappealing. Oh well, i guess everyone has their own personal method.
I miss ackee & salt fish! Thanks for the video. I was able to buy ackee in Atlanta and London but I can't find it at all in Akron. :-( I'll have to mail-order it -- probably the salt fish, too! And I don't put tomato in mine either (if someone is polling!). :-)
"Everyman do his ting a likkle way different." You can cook irt with or without tomato according to your taste buds. I add prawns to mine...go figure :D
My best friend that lives in Jamaica showed me a picture of a completed dish once; it looked REALLY good... But poor ol' me in Canada can't find that anywhere.
The best ackee I ever had was from my Mom's friend's huge tree in Florida. Fresh ackee is SO much better than canned because it's firmer as well as fresher and doesn't mash away easily
Ackee is a savoury fruit, originating from West Africa. Ackee trees grow in many countries but Jamaica is the only country where the fruit is harvested for food. More info can be found on Jamaica Travel and Culture (follow the link from my homepage).
Not for color but for the flavor according to my Mom anyway. So when I cook ackee and saltfish, callaloo, rice and peas, any meat or anything else I'll cut a bit of the skin of a tomato because my Mom and grandmother do that and always have.
no offence, but the people who cook ackee with tomato never usually have a grasp on how delicious it is without the tomato. My mother never cooked ackee with it and whenever I have good ackee the cooks never include it.
When I came to Canada my cousins usually add it to their ackee and the result was bland tasteless drab. One day I cooked it for them the way my mother cooks it and they kept going for seconds.
Ask others if you don't believe me. Most people wont add tomato to ackee.
My family doesn't coock ackee, callaloo, any meat etc. with lots of cooked tomato either. My Mom hates cooked boiled tomatoes anyway but she and my grandmother only cut off right uner the skin of a tomato not even a full proper slice of it, and not the skin of a whole tomato either.
They claim it's for flavor and that it thickens the gravy for meat. I dunno but I tend to cook the same way when I do cook that is LOL!
kinda let the salt fish soak for too long. its a bit fresh. alright, next time perfection
blackpassenger 2 weeks ago
what i've noticed though, is that one can of ackee wasn't enough for half pound of salt fish. I had to use two can. gonna try again today, but using olive oil this time and making sure the onions are sautéd completely. last time the onions were hard......and i didn't have enough ackee. it'll be perfect dis time. yu wau some? by di way, yu check out di book yet?
blackpassenger 2 weeks ago
thanks to you i can go and impress my wife now. i live in japan where you can hardly get ackee, but I'm now in the states temporarily on a book tour (i wrote a book about being jamaican in japan for the last ten years.) and will eat as much ackee as possible for the year i'll be here.
blackpassenger 1 month ago
@blackpassenger Hello, what is the title of your book? That sounds like an interesting read. My son is living in Kingston and I think living in Jamaica is quite difficult as it is so different to Lancashire England and yet it is how I imagine paradise to be. Japan I am very interested in. Such different lifestyles to Jamaica. One is laid back and the other so organised. Regards Denise
demise234 4 weeks ago
@demise234 wow, i used your recipe and my A&S came out perrrrrrrrfectly. its sooooo good. I'm going to try next time using olive oil instead of butter, only because olive oil is healthier. anyway, my book is called black passenger yellow cabs: a memoir of exile and excess in japan. its available everywhere, of course including amazon. let me know if you'd like a signed copy, we could work out something on paypal. check the trailer on my channel
blackpassenger 4 weeks ago
Tried ackee in Jamaica early November for the first time ever, saw the trees with what I thought were red pears but it was the ackee. Love it . Just managed to find a canned version in Tesco. Looking forward to making this dish. Amazing fruit. Also enjoyed dragon egg. In fact I enjoyed everything except boiled dumplings. Even pig tail is good properly cooked.
demise234 1 month ago
Love but picture is so dark!
sallymarie81 1 month ago
Hi Tracy, love your videos, would you please post one on our cooking contest website? it is StoveTopHero and I think you would be great. thanks Mike
StoveTopHero 1 month ago
Gal you make me hungry
naturalhairz 1 month ago
I'm a vegetarian trying to cook Ackee and Saltfish for my Jamaican wife. (That's another way of saying I'm trying to apologize to her.)
My question is.....When you shed the saltfish, do you shed it with the skin off or on? (With a question like this you can tell I'm not Jamaican, even though I had Ackee before.)
franklinedwards08 4 months ago
yu kno weh mi luv egg cook inna cokenat oil
bedipuss123 8 months ago
Keep the videos coming. I like what you are doing. Stop by and check out a fellow chef's channel.
nappychef35 8 months ago
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nappychef35 9 months ago
i love how all the food is so exotic and sweet like bananas and saltfish and ackee lol wat a combination.
sweetappletits 1 year ago
Excellent demonstration.... Thanks for posting..
sanceations 1 year ago
I made this dish for the first time last night and it came out really tasty. Thanks for this video!
I don't normally respond to belligerence but to the commenter who told scolded the cook for using tinned ackees; do you realize that not everyone on earth lives in a climate where ackees can be bought fresh?
Instead of celebrating our culture you've only managed to make us look brutish. There was just no reason dress her down that way. Shame on you.
Marmelder 1 year ago 3
that is no the way real Jamaicans cook Ackee and salt fish, i think you should leave this demonstration to a Jamaican who cooks. we don't use fake salt fish and tin ackee is for di Jamerican dem it can not compare to fresh produce. So if you going to rep fi Jamaica do di right thing or go sleep
020363 1 year ago
my favorite Jamaican dish
MrNarutovsbleach 1 year ago
She coulda add some more sauce in deh pot... all deh same, it sell off
Coolvirgingal 1 year ago
i like mine with more gravy, what can u do for a more liquidy content?
Lynnelovesyou123 1 year ago
Cook look good too.
sqz31p 1 year ago
IF I HAD KNOWN ACKEE WAS SO EXPENSIVE I WOULD HAVE NEVER WALK MY PREGNANT BEHIND 5 BLOCKES TO GET IT. LOL. YEAH I LEFT IT RIGHT THERE. JUST GONNA MAKE PLAIN SALT FISH NOW.
berahs 1 year ago
Only green Ackee is poisonous n even tho we all do thing differently congrats on sharing Caribbean culture...ackee is naturally fattening adding butter is kind of a bit much.
snuckleberrylocs 1 year ago
Thanks Tracy, a great instruction video. I'm trying it this weekend with rice and peas.
koll789 1 year ago
Thanks Tracy, a great instruction video. I'm trying it this weekend with rice and peas.
koll789 1 year ago
My mouth is watering, I love Ackee & Salfish with boiled green banana and dumplings hmmmmmmm. Fresh Ackee is far better than can.
SSMD1 1 year ago
I love allll jamacian foood!!!!!!!!!!!!
lletah 1 year ago
thanks i made this and it was great.
truegameuk1 1 year ago
what is the other name for salt fish? cod?
TheLaStrikesBack 1 year ago
How about using palm oil and not mashing the Ackee and Saltfish together. My corner shop guy told me if you don't know how to prepare Ackee, don't cook it, it can be poisonous. I am not sure what he was on about. I love Bob Marley!
SKTPSY 2 years ago
not everyone mashes it like that. my grandma boils the ackee for 6 minutes before she simmers it with the rest of the ingredients for 15 minutes. If ackee is cooked well it is not poisinous. The outer shell is the part that is dangerous as well as the seeds and those are discarded before they are canned.
hazelnova 2 years ago
Amazing! You cooked this so well, and the video was well done/explained! Thank you!
highawareness 2 years ago
Everyone cooks different! I usually cook my a&s with oil but will try it with butter to see how it tastes.
sammy1525 2 years ago
Wow, thank you for informing me that I am Puerto Rican I never new that I was Puerto Rican. My style of seasoning says a lot.
NCMACT 2 years ago
This sounds so good. I love salt fish & ackee. I love fresh ackee, my dad has an ackee tree in Panama in the back of his shop. I miss having this for breakfast. I have had this in Trelawny & Montego Bay Jamaica with & without tomato, both were good. I'm going to fix for breakfast with some traditional Panamanian Tortillas (Corn Cakes), Sweet Plantain, Potato Pancakes (without the sour cream & apple sauce) Fresh cinnamon tea w/milk (soy vanilla) & fresh bread w/cheese. Mmmmmm
Nabiyah1 2 years ago 4
@Nabiyah1 ohh my dad has an ackee tree in jamaica also. i love ackee and salt fish, unfortunatly it is very expensive in new york
anewmeePassion 1 year ago
I love ackee, but I would never eat it with saltfish. Ackee is a great vegetarian alternative! Don't spoil it with FISH. Rasta man agrees with me on this.
chopsueykungfu 2 years ago
Not a criticism but a comment and my personal opinion. I personally don't know anyone that cooks A&S with butter!! I've tasted it once and it was awful - the butter completely destroyed the taste of the Ackee. Also, they way in which you flaked the saltfish was very fine and mashing up the ackee in the saltfish rather than gently stirring it makes it look like mashed up food and unappealing. Oh well, i guess everyone has their own personal method.
truthsought1 2 years ago 6
@truthsought1 You have to mash it to "stretch" it out. lol
nosirrahm 6 months ago
I have never seen anyone who did not season their oil with annato first. What kind of salt fish was that? LOL!!
NCMACT 2 years ago
Jamaicans don't necessarily "season their oil" isn't that a Puerto Rican method?
jkc5000 2 years ago
good job
cunygrad 2 years ago
Thanks for showing me!!! first time i cooked this and gave to my family they loved it! :D
walkking666 2 years ago
OMG my mouth is watering, its been so long since i had ackee n salfish....
cbreeze123 2 years ago 2
this video is soooo organized :)
ABDbabygirl 2 years ago
If you don't eat this at the right time you can die right? Ackee?
TheZombiePanda 2 years ago
I have not made this in a long long time. Thanks for this video!
christmasinjune3443 2 years ago
ross clot mommeh yeh mek me hungry when mi watch dis.
1life4 2 years ago
lol
BlindMind4a 2 years ago
thank you ever so much I just love this omuch with a festival !!!do you have a recipe for them too??
Love from Paris france
jewelindisky 2 years ago
Yes, you can find the festival recipe on the website. I also have a video for the recipe on Youtube.
JamaicaTandC 2 years ago
I miss ackee & salt fish! Thanks for the video. I was able to buy ackee in Atlanta and London but I can't find it at all in Akron. :-( I'll have to mail-order it -- probably the salt fish, too! And I don't put tomato in mine either (if someone is polling!). :-)
bunnytube 2 years ago
thanks for posting. nice
childrenofdangun 2 years ago
i never tasted ackee and salt fish before but i have to try, if i ever get there in time b4 breakfast is over...
EFG4595 2 years ago
very good post...thanks
scarface939 2 years ago
lol u dont put tomato in ackee and saltfish
monsweet16 2 years ago
"Everyman do his ting a likkle way different." You can cook irt with or without tomato according to your taste buds. I add prawns to mine...go figure :D
RADCOMJ1 2 years ago
I heard ackee is poisonous when it's ripe. (eek!)
My best friend that lives in Jamaica showed me a picture of a completed dish once; it looked REALLY good... But poor ol' me in Canada can't find that anywhere.
takeyb0y2 3 years ago
What? It's time for YOU to take a trip to Toronto.
jrmetmoi 3 years ago
But Toronto is scary D:
takeyb0y2 3 years ago
Oh well. You gotta grow a couple and buy some ackee baby yeah!!
jrmetmoi 3 years ago
Lmao i know who can't find ackee in toronto? wth?
And Toronto's not scary...
3xquisit3 2 years ago
Ackee is only poisonous when it's UN-ripe or OVER-ripe. If you buy canned ackee you're pretty safe as the amount of toxin is highly regulated.
zombiejebus 3 years ago
what does ackee taste like ?
theyry89 2 years ago
taste like real food
BlindMind4a 2 years ago
The best ackee I ever had was from my Mom's friend's huge tree in Florida. Fresh ackee is SO much better than canned because it's firmer as well as fresher and doesn't mash away easily
jrmetmoi 3 years ago
reminds me of a song by "jah warriors" "can't cook". one of my fav's!!!check it out, if you can get a hold of it...rare stuff.
smattachew 3 years ago
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ginan813 3 years ago
wats your favorite?
chriskill08 2 years ago
i love this dish! thank you for the demonstration...and Tracy, you are adorable!!!
skellingtonjack 3 years ago
Ok...im a lil slow..what actually is ackee...I know I could google it to get the answer....but im lazy(lol)...BTW great vids!
denettra 3 years ago
Ackee is a savoury fruit, originating from West Africa. Ackee trees grow in many countries but Jamaica is the only country where the fruit is harvested for food. More info can be found on Jamaica Travel and Culture (follow the link from my homepage).
JamaicaTandC 3 years ago
Thanks!
denettra 3 years ago
@JamaicaTandC
Hey I am from the Cayman Islands, And we also use the fruit
here.
DCaymanian 1 year ago
A Lovely Video
cjwaywell 3 years ago
With most saltfish you can buy you don't need to soak it over night, just boil it for about 20 minutes to get rid of excess salt.
purevibe187 3 years ago
really?
jrmetmoi 3 years ago
YEP! Even when I made it for my grandma she kept telling me you can't boil it cos she's stuck in her old Jamaican ways... I soon shut her up!
purevibe187 3 years ago
thankyou i love your accent too!!
musiclido 3 years ago
I love her accent, mmm.
ChrisTheTruthTeller 3 years ago
im gonna cook it mmmmm im starvin now!
supergirltotherescue 4 years ago
Nice.
I guess most people would never know an overly mature or immature Ackee is toxic and could kill you!
Mack786 4 years ago 2
thats if the ackee is not opened b4 picked jack fish
realkonvictboy 3 years ago
OH THATS LOOKS NICE
tkrlil 4 years ago
Ya Man Very Tasteful....Ire
CHEFMED 4 years ago
country pepper to taste, I love the hot-a-fire!
splicegraph 4 years ago 2
LOVE ACKEE N SALTFISH
ghettokween 4 years ago
Great recipe thanks !!!!!
vampirecouncil 4 years ago
ackee and saltfish a di bomb! lol
toycandi 4 years ago 2
hey check out my song ackee and salt fish dance and song lol
aliaswhat 4 years ago
tomato shouldn't be added to ackee. It makes it tasteless.
Trelli28 5 years ago
Put just the skin of the tomato in it then.
jrmetmoi 3 years ago
what's the point of that? If it's for the red colour, use red peppers.
Trelli28 3 years ago
Not for color but for the flavor according to my Mom anyway. So when I cook ackee and saltfish, callaloo, rice and peas, any meat or anything else I'll cut a bit of the skin of a tomato because my Mom and grandmother do that and always have.
jrmetmoi 3 years ago
no offence, but the people who cook ackee with tomato never usually have a grasp on how delicious it is without the tomato. My mother never cooked ackee with it and whenever I have good ackee the cooks never include it.
When I came to Canada my cousins usually add it to their ackee and the result was bland tasteless drab. One day I cooked it for them the way my mother cooks it and they kept going for seconds.
Ask others if you don't believe me. Most people wont add tomato to ackee.
Trelli28 3 years ago
My family doesn't coock ackee, callaloo, any meat etc. with lots of cooked tomato either. My Mom hates cooked boiled tomatoes anyway but she and my grandmother only cut off right uner the skin of a tomato not even a full proper slice of it, and not the skin of a whole tomato either.
They claim it's for flavor and that it thickens the gravy for meat. I dunno but I tend to cook the same way when I do cook that is LOL!
jrmetmoi 3 years ago
Only use one tomato, it has a dominant taste.
purevibe187 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
use ZERO tomato. The aim is to have ackee and saltfish. not tomato with ackee and saltfish.
Trelli28 3 years ago