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Hot and Spicy Chicken with Ackee Ratatouille

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Hot and Spicy Chicken with Ackee Ratatouille is a dish with plenty of Caribbean flavour. It is great for a mid-week meal.

This week I have been experimenting with Caribbean food to mark Caribbean food week. Grace Foods kindly sent me some ingredients to experiment with and I have managed to make a couple of different recipes.

First I made a one pot chicken curry that used up a number of different herbs and spices as well as including sweet potato and butternut squash. It was delicious. I then made a coconut rice pudding using up a tin of coconut milk.

I had been rather intrigued by a tin of ackee and I had to make a recipe using them, just to see what it was. It is a fruit that is used in the traditional Jamaican dish, ackee and saltfish. I decided to try making a fusion dish, ackee ratatouille. To accompany this I fried up some chicken in a hot and spicy seasoning. The resulting hot and spicy chicken with ackee ratatouille was delicious.

Hot and spicy chicken

The hot and spicy chicken was really easy to make. I cut some chicken breast into pieces and then dipped them into a bowl containing beaten egg. I then covered them in the hot and spicy chicken spice and then fried them gently until the chicken was cooked though. They could also be placed on a baking tray and cooked in the oven. The spice flavouring was delicious, a slightly hot taste but not too hot to eat and a lovely flavour. A can of ginger beer was the perfect accompaniment.

hot and spicy chicken

For the ackee ratatouille I used the tin of ackee and added cherry tomatoes, garlic, a spring onion, a red onion, and some chopped mangetout. To add some extra spice I used a teaspoon of garlic, ginger and pimento seasoning and a teaspoon of green peppercorns in brine. These were left over from when I made steak with peppercorn sauce. The ackee is bright yellow in colour which surprised me. It looks a bit like scrambled eggs and has an almost cheesy nutty flavour that works really well with the other ingredients. The ackee ratatouille was a lovely side dish to the hot and spicy chicken.

ackee ratatouille

The whole family enjoyed the meal and the hot and spicy chicken was a big hit. I will definitely be making it again. I really enjoyed experimenting with Caribbean food and it has been fun to try some new foods in the process.

hot and spicy chicken

Have you tried Caribbean food? I would love to find some more recipe to try. Do let me know.

Joining in with the kitchen clearout linky on Madhouse Family Reviews as I used up the green peppercorns lurking in my cupboard.

August 26, 2015 · 8 Comments

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  1. Galina V says

    August 26, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    I have heard of ackee, but have never actually seen it or cooked with it. You’re a brave cook, experimenting with new flavours. The chicken looks delicious. Not sure about the ackee, it looks quite weird. 🙂

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    • Dragons and Fairy Dust says

      September 1, 2015 at 9:51 am

      Thank you. It did look strange but was actually very tasty

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  2. tanya says

    August 26, 2015 at 9:56 pm

    It looks good! I am ALWAYS looking for new chicken recipes.

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    • Dragons and Fairy Dust says

      September 1, 2015 at 9:50 am

      It was lovely, I definitely recommend that chicken spice. So tasty

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  3. Cheryl Pasquier says

    August 27, 2015 at 9:39 pm

    Wow, what a fab dish – very exotic, just my kind of thing 🙂 Thanks for linking up to #KitchenClearout xx

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    • Dragons and Fairy Dust says

      September 1, 2015 at 9:49 am

      It was lovely, would definitely make again

      Reply
  4. Chris says

    September 14, 2015 at 10:40 am

    That looks all very lovely. I have never tried ackee. So I first need to see a place where I could buy it, of course.

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    • Dragons and Fairy Dust says

      September 14, 2015 at 5:04 pm

      I hadn’t tried it before either, it was really tasty.

      Reply

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