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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Creamy Jerk 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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Desi Curry Goat

Yummy, and also easy, and almost authentic Indian style curry goat!

Day 4, Week 19

This was soooo yummy! And I don’t get to eat it much because my husband is not fond of Indian food (he’s indian btw?!?) but we both totally loved this. Although it did help that the goat was really fresh!

Ingredients:
Gosht masala (the picture is wrong)
chopped onions
diced tomatoes
goat

Guidelines:

In a saucepan on medium heat add a little olive oil (or ghee, which I don’t use), then add in the onions and tomatoes
Add in the curry powder and a cup of water and mix well
Add in the goat pieces and mix everything to make sure that all the pieces are coated with the curry in the pot
Cook on medium heat, covered, for about 1 1/2 hours or until meat is tender (stirring at intervals, but ensuring that there is enough moisture, add water as needed)

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Beef and Spinach Rolls

If you want to disguise your spinach, then this is the dish for you! Yummy spinach with beef.

Day 3, Week 16

I tried to make a video with for this dish, but there was constant kiddy chatter in the background… and I thought, ok, I’ll just voice-over it… riiight… you can guess how that went!

Ingredients:

spinach
thinly sliced beef
Montreal steak seasoning
soy sauce
herbs
olive oil

Guidelines:

Marinate the beef with a little olive oil, herbs, Montreal steak sauce, pepper to taste, for about half hour
Line the beef with spinach, and then roll the beef (so that the spinach is wrapped in the beef
Bake the rolls in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 1/2 hours, or until cooked

I sliced the rolls and served over rice, and with greens… even kids loved it. Simple and yummy!

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Veggie Styled Rice

Day 4, Week 15

For those mommy-sick-days!! Especially good with leftover rice!

Ingredients:

rice
eggs
tomatoes
chopped carrots
chopped spinach
green onions
garlic powder

Guidelines:

In a saucepan on medium heat, add a little butter, add in the green onions and then cooked rice
Season with the garlic powder and salt to taste
Add in the eggs and mix everything constantly until the egg is cooked
Add in carrots, tomatoes and spinach and mix well
Cook for about 5 mins

Serve with salad!

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