Jamaican fish tea

Original post:

http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2015/03/jamaican-fish-tea.html

Ingredients

2 whole snapper (cleaned, gutted, scaled)

10 cups water

1 chopped onion

2 stalk chopped scallion

2 garlic cloves shredded

2 sprigs of thyme

1 whole hot pepper (do not cut up)

1 tablespoon ground allspice

1 ½ teaspoon salt (plus more depending on your taste)

¼ teaspoon black pepper

3 cups cubed pumpkin

1 cho-cho chopped

2 cups sweet potato chopped

Dumplings/spinaz

1 cup flour

½ teaspoon salt

¾ cup water

Instructions

• Place the water in a pot to boil
• Once boiling turn the heat on medium/low and add the two fish cook for 30 minutes
• Remove the fish and set aside to cool
• To the water turn the temperature back to medium high
• Add chopped onion, scallion, garlic cloves, thyme, hot pepper, allspice, salt and black pepper
• Allow that to simmer together then add the pumpkin, sweet potato and cho-cho
• While that’s cooking prepare the dumplings but mixing ingredients together and rubbing small piece of dough between your hands to create long stringy dumplings, add to the pot
• Once the fishes are cooled, de-bone the entire thing leaving only the meat of the fish.
• Finally add the fish meat to the soup and give it a last stir and simmer for 5 minutes
• Check for seasoning to make sure the salt levels are to your liking, then serve.

Greedy Tips:

• If you want a more of a broth than a thick soup you can leave out the starchy veggies like the pumpkin and sweet potato, even the dumplings. You can go with carrots and cho-cho the color will also be different.
• Some persons add butter to the soup, I think that’s unnecessary as fish naturally has fat in it. And once you boil the fish in the water the fat is released so there is no need for extra fat.