Easiest Way to Make Appetizing Carribean Fish Fritters

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Carribean Fish Fritters. A popular Jamaican appetizer made with dried salted cod (bacalau or bacalao). The cod should be soaked overnight before using. Serve the fritters with a spicy dipping sauce.

Serve at a casual party,picnic or as an appetizers at a fancy gathering.

It's one of the most delicious dishes in the Caribbean: Accras de Morue, the signature codfish fritters of the French West Indies.

The team at the Guadeloupe Islands Tourist Board has been kind.

You can cook Carribean Fish Fritters using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Carribean Fish Fritters

1. You need of fish appetizers.

2. It’s 3 cup of all purpose flour.

3. Prepare 1 medium of Scotch bonnet pepper or ground black pepper.

4. You need 3 each of Onions.

5. Prepare 3 large of Tomatoes.

6. Prepare 3 tsp of Baking powder.

7. Prepare 2 lb of Salted cod fish.

8. You need 1 1/2 cup of Water.

9. It’s 1 cup of Vegetable oil.

Obviously the main ingredients in the fritters is the saltfish.

Basically, saltfish is cod fish that is covered in salt and has been cured for a longer preservation.

It is without a doubt a staple in Caribbean cuisine.

Second most important part of this dish is the veggies/seasonings that will be used.

Carribean Fish Fritters instructions

1. Soak the fish in water for 1 hour or more untill fish is soft..

2. place fish into a large bowl pat dry and begin to flake..

3. Dice up onions,pepper and tomatoes..

4. Add the Tomatoes and onions to the cod..

5. Add the flour, baking powder and pepper then stir into the cod..

6. Add the water and stir in until everything is well blended..

7. Heat the vegetable oil in a large pan over medium heat, when the oil is hot using a spoon drop spoonfalls of the batter into the pan..

8. Fry on each side for 5mins until golden brown, drain excess oil with paper towels..

I was not familiar with salted codfish so a little research was in order.

Seems that it is prevalent in the Caribbean as well as Scandinavian countries, around the Mediterranean and Canada, which is where my fish was from.

It just makes sense that preserving fish by a drying method, like using salt, was a natural.

These fried salmon fritters, based on Caribbean accras, get their kick from a filling of jalapeno, parsley, and onion.

These fish fritters are influenced by our time in the Caribbean with a flavouring of ginger, chilli and thyme.