Caribbean Stewed Chicken With Butter Beans is a sort of hybrid of Jamaican Brown Stew Chicken and traditional Caribbean Stew Chicken, except we are adding butter beans (lima beans) to the mix to change up the overall texture of the dish. It also does what Caribbean cooking has typically been very good at doing: stretching…
Growing up on the islands meant that whenever we got a fever mom would make us fever-grass tea. Basically we grew up associating being sick with this bush. Fast-forward years later and being new to Canada, I was blown away by this very same fever-grass. My cousin invited me to meet her in Toronto for…
Brown Stew! Nah.. that’s another recipe altogether, but for some it may be how they would recognize or identify this dish. Stew Chicken (don’t say stewed) is as classic a recipe gets, when it comes to Caribbean culinary culture. Loaded with deep flavors of herbs, ginger and caramelized sugar, braised until the chicken is falling…
Two of my favorite dishes combined! Stewed chicken with Spinach, a dish I make with dasheen bush (taro leaves) when I can source it, or more regularly with baby spinach which is readily available at grocery stores here in Ontario, Canada. Basically any of your fav ‘greens’ will work with this dish and if you’re…
A classic dish during pigeon peas season (usually from late December to early April) in the Caribbean. Freshly shelled pigeon peas are pre cooked, then added to traditional stewed chicken for an iconic dish to enjoy with rice, dumplings, roti or a side to ground provisions. Almost the same dish is made with a curry…
A bold twist on Caribbean stewed chicken, this comforting one-pot meal simmers tender chicken with earthy mushrooms and briny green olives in a rich coconut gravy.
If you’ve been reading the blog or getting the weekly recipes sent to you directly you’ll know that I’ve been tagging some recipes as being “Ultimate” (Ultimate Curry Goat | Ultimate Curry Chicken), so today I’ll like to add another classic dish to the “Ultimate” series. I think it was about 4 years ago and…
