Challenge #25: Anything But Turkey

[miss_s_b]

So I know we're all* going to be cooking festive treats this week. And I love festive food, generally. But turkey is so boring. So give me your non-turkey festive food.

Do you have a great sprout method?
Is your Christmas Pudding to die for?
How about a nice Christmas ham?

Get to it!

(And Merry Christmas/Newtonmas/Saturnalia/Yule/Midwinter Festival of your choice)

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* OK, maybe not all, but you know what I mean

Comments

[magic_at_mungos]

Admittedly we have a non traditional Christmas food but definitely buljol and bake is up there.

There are both dishes from Trinidad so we made them part of our celebrations.

Buljol is basically a fish salad type dish usually eaten after lent.

Get some salted white fish (usually cod. Morrison’s are surprisingly good at having it).

Soak overnight to get the salt out and the using a knife, strip the meat from the skin and bones.

Cut up sweet peppers and red pepper into fine cubes. Mix into the fish with olive oil and trying not to make it too wet. Serve on a dish on a bed of lettuce and sliced avocado.

Fried bake is just your ordinary bread dough (we make it with strong white flour but ymmv). Once risen, make it into balls a little smaller than the size of your palm and then fry either in a pan or a deep fryer.

If you’re feeling energetic or have lots of fish, mix in some of the shredded fish and onions into the dough before leaving it to rise and then frying. This is also yum and called accra.

[miss_s_b]

Oooooh the bread thing sounds ace!

[magic_at_mungos]

It is amazing and is a lot lighter than regular bread. The effort is making the dough but we outsourced this to our bread maker (usually overnight) and then stuck it in the airing cupboard to rise.

It was quite hard not to scoff it all when it was still hot. Here’s a receipt that looks fine but as all things, this dish is quite individualistic so most people will prepare it slightly differently https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.simplycaribbean.net/blog/the-best-trinidad-style-fry-bake/amp/

[miss_s_b]

Thank you!