Ackee and Saltfish Video Recipe

Tracy shows you how to cook the traditional Jamaican breakfast dish - Ackee and Saltfish.

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[jewelindisky]

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

[JamaicaTandC]

Yes, you can find the festival recipe on the website. I also have a video for the recipe on Youtube.

[truthsought1]

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.

[Nabiyah1]

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

[blackpassenger]

kinda let the salt fish soak for too long. its a bit fresh. alright, next time perfection

[blackpassenger]

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]

@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

[demise234]

@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

[blackpassenger]

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.

[demise234]

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.

[sallymarie81]

Love but picture is so dark!

[StoveTopHero]

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

[naturalhairz]

Gal you make me hungry

[franklinedwards08]

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.)