Trini Fried Bake or Jamaican Johnny Cakes

Really yummy and easy to make Caribbean styled fried roti.

One of my most favorite Trini foods is what we call fried bake, you can see the authentic way of making and serving it at the Trini Gourmet blog.

However since I would never to all of that on my own, I use Grace Johnny Cakes to make my bakes, and it’s just a matter of adding milk to the mixture and then frying in hot oil. One thing that I noticed was that if I go with the directions on the package, it comes out really sticky, and if you have extra flour, that’s perfect, but if you’re like me and don’t stock flour, you can just save a little of the mix to use as a flour substitute and add a little less milk.

Try it! Yum!!!

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Jerky Chicken

Tasty jerk chicken, takes 7 mins to prepare!!

Day 1, Week 20

If you’re in Toronto, maybe you’ve seen the Hellmann’s mayo commercial with a fan recipe video for “helmania chicken” (I couldn’t find it on the net), but this is loosely based on that!

Ingredients:
jerk seasoning
whole chicken
paprika
mayo
soy sauce
crushed garlic

Guidelines:

Put whole chicken into a dark-colored baking dish
Add on top the garlic, soy sauce, salt and pepper to taste
Sprinkle generously with jerk seasoning
Add about 2 tbsp of mayo and 1tbsp of butter and mix everything together, rubbing it into the chicken (I used my hands)
Cover with foil and bake at 350 for about 1hr or until fully cooked and tender

Served with linguini in a spinach and cheese sauce and veggies.

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Un-authentic Jerk Chicken

Day 1, Week 1

picture shown is the kiddy version

Jerk Chicken is a traditional Jamaican dish… now I have to say that although the first 18 years of my life was spent living in in the Caribbean, I only heard about Jerk after I moved to Canada!!

Oh, also, I have never eaten authentic Jerk Chicken.

Main Ingredients:
1 whole chicken, cut into small pieces
Gouda Jerk Spice
Trinidadian Curry Powder

Guidelines (quick, easy, but still tasty!):

Pre-heat pot on stovetop, add a little oil, and then put in the washed chicken parts
Cover the chicken in a generous sprinkling of Jerk seasonings, and then evenly sprinkle about 1tbsp of curry powder

Add a drizzle of olive oil on the top and mix it all up for about 3-5 mins on high heat while the chicken gets brown
Add salt and pepper to taste
Once the chicken is evenly covered with the spices and the liquid from the pot is almost gone, add about 4oz (I use a sippy cup to measure) of water and let it cook for about 20 mins on medium heat
Add about 4oz of water again, mix well, let cook for about 20-30 mins more until chicken is ready

Grown-up version was served with rice, beans and salad, kiddy version was served with rice and an avocado-veggie medley.

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