I’ll often make rice and peas along with any other dishes which use beans during the week and it’s almost guaranteed that I’ll always have some left over.
Recently I’ve started freezing my left over beans meaning that I have a mix of kidney beans, black eyed beans, gungo peas and various others stashed in my freezer ready for a meal like this!
With this time of year being dark in the morning and dark in the afternoon, I really needed a dish reminiscent of my time in the Caribbean when the sun in my eyes, salt water in my hair and where my next rum punch was coming from were my only concerns! I had a beautiful prawn curry on my favourite beach in Grenada - La Sagesse...
Traditionally, jerk is never done on seafood which is why I hate to call this one Jerk, but I season it just as I would season Jerk chicken or pork and it tastes SO good that I just had to share the recipe!
In Jamaica, the word Jerk refers to two things that both go hand in hand with each other. One is a style of cooking in which chicken or pork is coated in a blend of spices before being placed on top of pimento wood to slowly grill over the flames of burning coal underneath...
As the golden autumn mornings start later, the evenings get colder and lazy weekend days await, its time to explore the comfort that Caribbean food brings in these colder months!
Crispy on the outside, succulent in the middle and studded with chunks of salted fish, chilli and peppers! This is hands down, one of the most delicious Caribbean snacks around!
