Levi Roots’ Reggae Reggae Cookbook

Levi Roots’ Reggae Reggae Cookbook
Levi Roots

Put Some Music in Your Food

For my grandmother and my mother

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

FOREWORD BY PETER JONES

INTRODUCTION

CARIBBEAN INGREDIENTS AND TERMS

REGGAE ESSENTIALS

Levi’s Rice

Boiled Provisions

Boiled and Fried Breadfruit

Boiled Green Bananas

Rice and Peas

Fried Plantain

Fried Dumplings

Festival

Season Rice

LEVI’S STORY, PART 1 MY LIFE IN JAMAICA

EVERYDAY CARIBBEAN

Caribbean Chicken Soup

Ital Red Pea Soup

Salmon St Jago de la Vega

Brown Stew Fish

Fried Escovitch Snapper

Licha Fish

Hot Ital Stew

Brown Down Chicken and Rice

Oxtail and Butter Bean Stew

Brown Stew Chicken with Yard-Style Gravy

Chicken Curry

Caribbean Curry

Spicy Hummus Dip

Reggae Beans on Toast

Reggae Cheese on Toast

Levi’s Curried Noodles

Soca Sardines on Toast

Spice-up Tuna and Sweetcorn Sandwich

Corned Beef Cook-up

Roast Sweet Potatoes

Nice ‘n Spicy Roast Chicken with Lemon and Thyme

LEVI’S STORY, PART2 COMING TO LONDON

RISE AND SHINE

Jamaican Porridge

Cornmeal Porridge

Peanut Porridge

Banana Porridge

Mash-Up Eggs

Ackee and Saltfish

LEVI’S STORY, PART 3 ‘PLAY I SOME MUSIC’ (Bob Marley)

Callaloo and Saltfish

Morning Mango and Passion Fruit Smoothie

Get Up Guava, Papaya and Banana Smoothie

Pineapple Banana and Orange Sunshine Smoothie

Reggae Reggae Bloody Mary

Morning Carrot Juice

LEVI’S STORY, PART 4 HARD TIMES, BIG LESSONS

CARNIVAL

‘Nuff Corn Soup’

Fish Soup

Spiller Dumplings

Seriously Special Reggae Boat Fish

Cook-up Fish

Saltfish Fritters

Stew Beef

Split Pea Roti