Original Flava: Caribbean Recipes from Home

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This cookbook definitely delivers on what it promises in that every recipe is packed with spices, peppers, and other flavourful foods to guarantee meals that will leave your taste buds happy. It also features a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables like plantain, yams, jackfruit, guava, and plenty more, making it perfect for vegan recipes. Think Potato and chickpea curry with roti, Jerk cauliflower wings, Coconut, black-eyed pea and sweet potato stew, and Plantain cookies. I work with students from the Caribbean, so I was always curious about the foods they grew up eating. I think if you’re more familiar with Caribbean cooking this won’t be a problem for you, but if you aren’t, just be prepared for it.

I mention it only because I feel if I alter anything in someone’s recipe, I feel it is only polite to say so! A vibrantly designed Caribbean vegan cookbook from the internationally celebrated duo behind Original Flava. There's lots of interesting recipes for plantains, a squash wellington that I've never seen before, some porridge bowls, and more! Mackerel Run Down a traditional dish that combines tender fresh and dried mackerel with sautéed vegetables and a rich spiced coconut sauce.

I can’t wait to try making some of the recipes and see for myself what my students were talking about. So I prescribe myself the Kitchen Cure, which is to say I lose myself in cooking and eating good things full of bright flavour. They have since been featured on the BBC, Buzzfeed, BET Network, London Live and Reprezent Radio, and successfully self-published their first cookbook Caribbean Cookbook in 2017.

We also like to twist it up a likkle to give dishes our modern spin, so you can find recipes for Honey roastedjerk-spiced salmon, Plantain beanburgers and Banana fritter cheesecake. We also like to twist it up a likkle to give dishes our modern spin, so you can find recipes for Honey roasted j erk-spiced salmon, Plantain beanburgers and Banana fritter cheesecake.I received an ARC of this book from the publisher, and I have to say that for someone in the Caribbean, this would probably be a good recipe book. Other recipes we have tried and liked from this recipe book are; Jerk-spiced Lentil Bolognese (pictured below) Chicken Fried Rice, Da Jerk Burger, and Curry Prawns. There are recipes that are a spin on popular dishes which will have the keen meat eater licking their lips.

Essentially Jamaican cooking without salt, meat, or additives, Ital is just as tasty but with the power to promote overall health and wellness. Some recipes just say to "cook the ingredients" while others actually provide temperatures, but those temperatures are sometimes in Fahrenheit and sometimes say "Gas 3" or "Gas 6" etc.There are tons of stew recipes, but there are also unique pastas, burgers, curries, stuffed vegetables, and much more.

We also like to twist it up a likkle to give dishes our modern spin, so you can find recipes for Honey roasted jerk-spiced salmon, Plantain beanburgers and Banana fritter cheesecake. We also like to twist it up a likkle to give dishes our modern spin, so you can find recipes for Honey Roasted Jerk-Spiced Salmon, Plantain Beanburgers, and Banana Fritter Cheesecake. But the recipe I’m sharing with you today, because it would be an act of unspeakable cruelty not to, is for the Rum-Roasted Potatoes.In April 2016, they launched the Original Flava brand, sharing videos of them cooking simple Caribbean recipes. True, there’s an argument for the blanketing stodge of Beige Food, too, but it’s not a case of either/or).