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Breadfruit in Butter Sauce Recipe

Breadfruit in Butter Sauce Recipe

Dessert · world favourite.

120 min500 kcalserves 3

Ingredients

Method

  1. Continue cooking — Captain William Bligh was chosen to lead an expedition to the South Seas to bring the breadfruit to the Caribbean.
  2. Continue cooking — His devotion to the breadfruit saplings and neglect of his crew’s water needs lead to the famous “Mutiny on the Bounty” on his first attempt.
  3. Continue cooking — Cast overboard; Captain Bligh made his way hundreds of miles to safety in an open boat.
  4. Continue cooking — On his second attempt in 1793, he sailed into Jamaica’s Port Royal Harbour with a ship so crowded with beautiful leafy breadfruit saplings that the Jamaicans rowed out toward “the ship that has bush.”
  5. Continue cooking — Today large, lush breadfruit trees grow throughout the Caribbean, bearing the football-like starchy staple that has kept hunger away from many a door.
  6. Continue cooking — Breadfruit may be difficult to find outside the Caribbean.
  7. Continue cooking — You will need the following ingredients: 1/2 medium breadfruit
  8. Continue cooking — 1/2 small onion 1 tablespoon olive oil 4 oz/125g butter
  9. Prep and chop — 3 medium onions, cut into rings 1 tablespoon garlic finely chopped
  10. Drain — 1 medium 16floz/500ml tin whole tomatoes, drained and sliced
  11. Continue cooking — 1/4 cup or 3 tablespoons parsley, diced 1 tablespoon lime juice
  12. Continue cooking — Salt and pepper to taste 1 cup 8oz or 250ml water

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