Oildown
08 June 2007
Behold, Grenada's National Dish: Oildown.
Everyone's got a variation on a family recipe but here's the basic contents:
1/2lb salt meat (pre-soaked)
1 medium onion chopped
1 large breadfruit
8-10 young dasheen leaves
2-4 cups coconut milk
1 sprig celery, chive and thyme
2 medium carrot chopped
2 seasoning peppers chopped
1 lb dumplings
2 tbsp. tumeric (saffron)
Mount Nesbit, Grenada.
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Looks delicious.
Now I'm hungry.
What are salt meats, bread fruit, and young dasheen leaves?
that oildown looks like it's lacking!!! something's wrong with it! But the recipe's good though. by the way, salted meats are mostly pig tail or pig snout(nose), that have been cured i salt, so you usually need to boil them separately before putting them in the pot with everything else. you may also find beef that's salted. Bread fruit is found in the caribbean, it's a rather large, starchy fruit that grows on very large trees. The flesh of it is hard when uncooked, but very soft when properly cooked, it's cream coloured and the skin is green. young dasheen leaves are simply callaloo leaves. you can google it. that's pretty much it.
Looks Tasty!!!