
Breadfruit in Butter Sauce Recipe
Dessert · world favourite.
120 min500 kcalserves 3
Ingredients
- 1/2 Breadfruit
- 1/2 Onion
- 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
- 125g Butter
- 3 Onion
- 1 tablespoon Garlic
- 500ml Tinned Tomatos
- 3 tablespoons Parsley
- 1 tablespoon Lime juice
- To taste Salt
- To taste Pepper
- 250ml Water
- To taste Red Pepper Paste
- Garnish Parsley
Method
- Continue cooking — Captain William Bligh was chosen to lead an expedition to the South Seas to bring the breadfruit to the Caribbean.
- 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.
- Continue cooking — Cast overboard; Captain Bligh made his way hundreds of miles to safety in an open boat.
- 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.”
- 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.
- Continue cooking — Breadfruit may be difficult to find outside the Caribbean.
- Continue cooking — You will need the following ingredients: 1/2 medium breadfruit
- Continue cooking — 1/2 small onion 1 tablespoon olive oil 4 oz/125g butter
- Prep and chop — 3 medium onions, cut into rings 1 tablespoon garlic finely chopped
- Drain — 1 medium 16floz/500ml tin whole tomatoes, drained and sliced
- Continue cooking — 1/4 cup or 3 tablespoons parsley, diced 1 tablespoon lime juice
- Continue cooking — Salt and pepper to taste 1 cup 8oz or 250ml water
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