Mackerel Rundown

This recipe is from episode 5 of There’s No Taste Like Home.

Total Prep Time: 30minutes
Total Cooking Time: 1hour 30minutes

Ingredients

• 2 Large salted mackerel
• 2 coconuts
• 1 large onion (thinly sliced)
• 2 spring onions
• Black pepper
• 1 scotch bonnet pepper
• ½ Yam
• 325g Cornmeal
• 200g plain flour
• Salt
• Tea spoon sunflower oil
• 600g Okra (lady’s fingers)

Directions

1. Place the mackerels in boiling water for 20mins
2. Drain and re-fill pan with fresh cold water and re-boil for another 10-15mins
3. Drain and pour new cold water onto the mackerels
4. De-bone mackerel and flake
5. Release coconut from shell, wash and grate into a bowl
6. Pour half a pint of water over the grated coconut and squeeze for 2/3 mins to release cream
7. Strain coconut into a large pan.
8. Repeat process for coconut
9. Gently heat the coconut for 20-30mins to create custard
10. Finely chop a large onion and place into custard along with spring onions, scot bonnet pepper and black pepper. Stir gently and leave for 3 mins.
11. Place mackerel into custard and simmer for 7-10 minutes.
12. For dumplings place cornmeal and white flour and salt into bowl.
13. Pour in water, a little at a time to create a thick dough.
14. Roll dough together into a sausage shape and divide into 8.
15. Make dough into 8 dumplings.
16. Place dumplings into hot salty water and add a tea spoon of sunflower oil.
17. Peel yam and divide into 8.
18. Place into pot with dumplings.
19. Top and tail the okra and cut remainder into half. Place into the pan with the yam and cook for 10mins.
20. Serve the mackerel and coconut custard with a dumpling, yam and okra.