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Celebrate Caribbean Food Week with Grace Foods

August 26, 2016 by manjirichitnis 6 Comments

When it comes to Caribbean flavours in the U.K, Grace Foods have bagged the top stop as the numero uno foodand drinks company. They have a wide range of sauces, dips, marinades seasonings and tropical drinks to satisfy all palates.

Grace Foods are celebrating their 5th annual Caribbean Food week – Aug 22nd to Aug 29th’ 2016. To spread word of their celebrations Grace Foods, sent me a cracking hamper stuffed with an assortment of goodies.

Grace Foods hamper

 

I wanted to try all the sauces but I was cooking for two so choose the following products:

  • Dunns River Ackee
  • Dunns River beans
  • Dunns River Tropical seasoning
  • Dunns River all purpose seasoning

Grace Foods Caribbean seasonings

I had never heard of Ackee before and was very curious to try working with this ingredient. Ackee, the national fruit of Jamaica, is consumed in a traditional dish with salt fish. AK is not fond of salt fish though I decided to create a side with vegetables and Dunns River Tropical seasoning. I am so pleased with the results, the dish is truly sunshine in a plate.

Canned ackee

It is always fun to try out new and exotic flavours but mind you this one comes with a warning. The unripe fruit can prove fatal and causes Jamaican vomiting sickness. But the ripe fruit has many nutritional benefits including being a digestive aid, helping to lower blood pressure and is high in unsaturated fats which help to maintain heart health.

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Celebrate Caribbean Food Week with Grace Foods
 
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Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
15 mins
Total time
25 mins
 
This dish is truly summer in a plate
Author: Ackee and vegetable side
Recipe type: Side
Cuisine: Caribbean
Serves: 4 portions
Ingredients
  • Dunn Rivers can of ackee
  • 6 tsp Dunn Rivers Tropical seasoning
  • ½ a red onion chopped lenghthwise
  • 2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
  • 3-4 small sweet peepers
  • 2 tbsp rapeseed oil
Instructions
  1. Heat oil in a wok
  2. Saute' the chopped garlic until they brown
  3. Add the Tropical seasoning and mix well
  4. Add the chopped onions and saute' them until they go soft
  5. Then add the green beans and stir fry for about 2 minutes
  6. Then add the peppers and saute for about a minute
  7. Drain and wash the ackee under running water
  8. Add the ackee and cook on low heat for atleast 4 minutes
  9. Ensure the ackee mixes well with the vegetables and spices and serve hot
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Ackee and vegetable side

As the ackee cooks it breaks down like soft gooey scrambled eggs and takes up the flavours in the seasoning very well. Mix the ackee very gently or it will turn into a lump.

I paired this dish with a hearty brown rice mixed with peas and beans.

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Caribbean rice with peas and beans
 
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Prep time
2 mins
Cook time
25 mins
Total time
27 mins
 
Delightful mixture of spices add a different dimension of flavour to this simple dish, make it healthier by using brown rice
Author: Manjiri
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Caribbean
Serves: 4 serves
Ingredients
  • 1½ cup brown rice
  • 1 can of Dunns River peas and Beans
  • 1 small red onion
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 2 tsp olive oil
  • 1 bay leaf
Instructions
  1. Chop the onion lengthwise
  2. Rinse and soak the rice in a big vessel
  3. Heat the olive in a medium sized vessel
  4. Add the bay leaf and then saute' the chopped garlic until it browns
  5. Add 2 heaped tbsp of all purpose seasoning and mix well and saute for under 30 second stirring continuously so that the seasoning does not bu4n
  6. Drain the water used to wash the rice
  7. Then add the washed rice and saute it for a under a minute stirring continuously
  8. Drain the water from the canned peas and beans and transfer them to a sieve and wash them under running water, to get rid of the salt
  9. Add the peas and beans and add exactly twice the amount of water as the rice and cook on a medium flame with lid on
  10. Granish with some chopped spring onion
  11. Serve hot
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Caribbean brown rice with peas and beans

Ideally I would cook up a fiery chicken curry to go with this rice but I had some white fish in my freezer and decided to grill them with some jerk seasoning.

Grilled jerk fish

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Grilled jerk fish
 
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Prep time
2 mins
Cook time
8 mins
Total time
10 mins
 
Spicy grilled fish is great paired with the brown rice with peas and the ackee and vegetable side
Author: Manjiri
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Caribbean
Ingredients
  • 2 fillets of white fish
  • 3 heaped tbsp of Dunns River Jamaicanjerk seasoning mariande
  • 2 tsp of olive oil
  • ¼th of a lime
Instructions
  1. Wash the fish fillets and coat thoroughly with the marinade
  2. Heat a grill pan and pour the oil
  3. Grill the fish until done
  4. Ensure you do not overcook as the white fish is generally very delicate and will break easily. Overcooking will render it dry and not much fun to eat!
  5. Squeeze the lime and don't be shy with it, the lime will cut through the spice and elevate flavours
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Grilled jerk fish

Get creative in your kitchen or just go with the recipe suggestions on the packs, if you need more recipe inspiration head over the Grace Foods recipe section.

Caribbean street food party

If you are in London join the festivities at Caribbean Food Week Festival at Windrush Square in Brixton.

Caribbean Food Week poster

Caribbean street food party

 

Disclaimer:  With thanks to Grace Foods for sending me a selection of products to experiment with. As always, all opinions expressed are my own. I was not required to write a positive review and was not compensated monetarily for this post. 

 

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