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salt fish balls like Guyanese?

I've only seen them in Guyana or in Guyanese homes elsewhere.

Lawks dem taste good yuh see -dat was breakfast wid some 'salad', cucumber and avocado and two slices of roast breadfruit.

In reply to Chrissy



Sounds delicious

In reply to Chrissy

Is it similar to Bajan fish cakes? How is it made?

In reply to Chrissy

This Jamaican girl used to make salmon balls for me, along same lines as saltfish balls.

In reply to Chrissy

Damn Chrissy, you killing me here.
I had something similar for breakfast two weeks ago Sunday.
Salt fish balls not hard to make, but sometimes with certain people it just taste different and much much better.

In reply to Oilah
1lb potatoes, yam or breadfruit
1/2lb saltfish
one onion,
black pepper
ground pimento1/2 tomato
scotch bonnet or wiri wiri
1/2 tsp soy sauce
one egg
1 carrot
2oz breadcrumbs
Japanese breadcrumbs
Soak or boil saltfish
boil (with hot pepper) and crush potatoes, yam or breadfruit.

In food processor place saltfish, onion, tomato, soy sauce, egg, black pepper and pimento.

Mash starch and grate carrot
add stuff from food processor - mix well, add 2oz of regular breadcrumbs.

Form into balls or egg shaped if you like.
Meanwhile heat pan with coconut or olive oil.

Dust saltfish balls in cornstarch and then roll in Japanese breadcrumbs.
Fry until golden brown.

You can make salt fish burgers the same way - good fi drunks late in di night. You can make them tiny for appetizers.

Enjoy

In reply to goofballs

I had some of those but they don't taste as nice. Fish balls are made the same way but my snapper is way to precious fi dat

In reply to embsallie

Split peas flour with some geera is also an alternative to Japanese breadcrumbs

In reply to Chrissy

Thank you...I shall make it and let you know how it do

In reply to Chrissy

Anything with breadfruit is excluded from my plate.
Is must be among the worst eatable foods.

Your recipe with potato is similar to making Crab cakes.

In reply to openning

What the heck is wrong with you?

What did Breadfruit coo coo do to you?

In reply to Chrissy

True. Too softie compared to the hard, strong aroma and taste of salt fish on the palate.

Maybe the salting/drying or consistency/hardness of the salt fish. (Over here they sell salted cod fish).

I don't usually use pepper but had to always have something to get the balls to go down.

In reply to openning

Breadfruit is an all time classic food.

In reply to TheTrail

I hated Breadfruit the first time I tasted it.
I can eat the real coucou, every day for lunch.

In reply to goofballs

Not in my house, my wife is Antiguan, she dislike it also.

In reply to openning

something wrong, you calling the wrong thing breadfruit

In reply to methodic
Not eating it.
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In reply to openning

Crab and other fish cakes.
I love breadfruit.
Still I was wondering aloud why only Guyanese make salt fish balls.

In reply to Chrissy

Guyanese also make Aloo (Potato) Balls- very tasty. In Trinidad and other parts people make Aloo Pie with the identical taste, so yes, it is curious why in Guyana they prefer the "ball" style vs the Pie.

In reply to Chrissy

Interestingly enough you can get Salt Fish balls in Portugal and the Catalan region of Spain.

In reply to Larr Pullo

Yes indeed - note I said in the Caribbean - salt fish came to our hemisphere with the Portuguese and folks from Northern Spain.
Salt fish balls are a national dish in Portugal.

In reply to Emir

Excellent observation but I never saw salt fish pie in T&T outside of a Guyanese home.

In reply to Chrissy
is the saltfish ball or cake considered low class food in colonial days?

remember the old rhyme

In reply to nickoutr

Didn't remember that and yes anything salt fish was low class food

In reply to Chrissy
but very delicious crispy fried salt fish as garnish for metemgee or cook up rice

In reply to nickoutr

It is the so-called low class food across the globe that is the most popular food everywhere.

Long time I haven't made metemgee

In reply to Emir

You just bunning because they names it after the Goof's last name.


Shanta's was noted for the dhall puri with a potato/aloo ball inside like a sandwich for lunch or snack.

I can't remember people ordering the curry at all to go with/inside the roti, Trini style, in Georgetown.

Maybe it was less messy, smelly or just a westernized adaption.

In reply to goofballs

That's because we didn't really eat out often in those days - the curry was at home waiting. We did buy lots of snacks. Shantas had wicked potato balls and pholourie. The sourie, tamarind or mango sauces were amazing. The best channa was Boyos, opposite the prison on Camp street

The one food we ordered a lot from outside was Chinese but it was mostly take out back in the day.
We used to buy some delish Chinese food from a place on Regent Street.

In reply to Chrissy

All above is very true as I think back to those days.

We didn't eat out!!
When the girls rarely didn't feel like cooking they would send me on my bike to pick up Chinese.
When we cut classes we go to Chinese restaurant or a bob show or both.

There was a wicked chicken in the rough place on Regent street.

In reply to goofballs

Regent Street had plenty good food.
By the way KFC can't compare with di chicken in the rough from Regent Street.

In reply to Chrissy

Sounds good... my favourite appetizer at Caribbean restaurants, so thanks for the recipe.

In reply to RonaldM

You're welcome

In reply to Chrissy

Salt fish balls are ok, really.

For real excitement get 6 well made Bajan fish cakes.

I plan to test 6 Bajan fishcakes on a Guyanese partner soon. Will report.

Watch your salt intake, raises the blood pressure!

I like the recipe!

Mark mi down fi sample at the Guyana township in NY!

In reply to goofballs

Perhaps He hates Breadfruit because when Captain Bligh brought Breadfruit
plants to the Caribbean , the first Place he sailed to was St. Vincent .

This was due to the fact that the Second in Command at the famous Kew Gardens in England was visiting
St. Vincent at that time .
From St. Vincent plants were distributed to other Islands in the Region .

The from St Vincent the next Place
Captain Bligh went to was Jamaica .
During the Journey to the Caribbean
the Plants were cared for by a man who was a Chief , and also a local
Botanist .

He stowed away in the Ship , with the full knowledge of Captain Bligh & his Crew . Unfortunately he died in Jamaica from some disease that these days is curable .

In reply to POINT

So Bligh give he a bligh.

In reply to culpepperboy

In reply to Headley
I like grouper fish cakes - nice and meaty.
Please report back

In reply to XDFIX

I am one of the lucky ones on di planet - my blood pressure has always been low rather than high.

I walk 20K a week and exercise for another 45 minutes after walking.
One day like the rest of humanity dis body will decide it's had enough and stop working -and dat will be dat

In reply to Chrissy

All that sounds mouth watering but in England there's no time,plus breadfruit and selfish too bloody expensive.

In reply to POINT

I don't know enough to directly disagree with you, Point. But when HMS Bounty was mutinied by Fletcher Christian and the boys in 1789 Capt Bligh's mission was to deliver 100 breadfruit plants to Jamaica, a job he successfully completed the year after. So unless he had taken breadfruit saplings to Vincie before, you may be wrong.

--Æ.

In reply to JayMor

Or maybe those guys (from the movie, Mutiny on the Bounty) thought that St Vincent was a parish in Jamaica (like how Americans now think that Trinidad is).

In reply to Drapsey

I don't recall seeing the movie; instead, I learned the history prolly in h.s. May have read the book too.

Tikya Bravos an' dem no come fe yuh, likening T'dad to a parish in Ja.

But, Drapsey, you attended JSA... they ever told of whence cometh our St Vincent yam? Must've had an origin there, no?

--Æ.

In reply to Chrissy

sound like Fish Cakes

and yes we experiment with extra ingredients...

but you know how to make a man mout water

In reply to JayMor

It's from St. Vincent, while renta is from Trinidad.

In reply to JayMor

Point is right. St. Vin still has a very good Botanical Garden.

Very fertile country. Had plenty fruits including sweetsop (sugar apple) and ribbon cane there recently.

In reply to Chrissy

Remember Brown Betty

Cheicken in the rough and ice cream

Chinese Dragon was closeby too

In reply to Narper

Daddy used to take us to Brown Betty on Sunday nights - bro and I were talking about this last week when he was here

In reply to Chrissy
According to Sparrow salt fish balls is an oxymoron.

In reply to Headley

I stop buying Fish cakes in bim, because of the missing Saltfish.
Thanks to my niece, who moved home a few years ago, she makes them with plenty Saltfish in the batter.

One of my sons studied in Spain and my wife been there and they both talked about cod fish balls in Portugal - so U all aint lying