Please help with Caribbean cook ahead recipes to serve 50!

adelight

What about patties?! Think of them as extra tasty spicy pasties. You can cook a load on the wednesday and keep them in the fridge or freezer(oven/micro to heat up) until friday. You could do some beef and some veg, and like the chicken pieces idea you can just chuck them all on a big plate and people can just grab one.
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/396221/Levi-Roots--vegetable-patties Simple veg recipe with cheap ingredients.

You could look up some more recipes from levi Root's bbc series "caribbean food made easy".

purpleheather2810

Omnomnom this thread is making me HUNGRY! Awesome! Can I come to your party please, OP?

RAS

One dish that might work is kidney beans with thyme and coconut - sounds strange but is wonderful.

You could cook the kidney beans until almost done earlier and then heat them up on the night. Drain, add loads of thyme leaves and creamed coconut - chop that in advance.

adelight

RAS wrote: »

One dish that might work is kidney beans with thyme and coconut - sounds strange but is wonderful.

You could cook the kidney beans until almost done earlier and then heat them up on the night. Drain, add loads of thyme leaves and creamed coconut - chop that in advance.

Great idea I've had that but with rice in it as well, so easy to cook wed/thurs then heat up!

GIRLPOWER_2

RAS wrote: »

One dish that might work is kidney beans with thyme and coconut - sounds strange but is wonderful.

You could cook the kidney beans until almost done earlier and then heat them up on the night. Drain, add loads of thyme leaves and creamed coconut - chop that in advance.

This does indeed sound very strange... can not imagine what it would taste like but I am intrigued now so will give it a go.. do you used tinned kidney beans?

GIRLPOWER_2

adelight wrote: »

What about patties?! Think of them as extra tasty spicy pasties. You can cook a load on the wednesday and keep them in the fridge or freezer(oven/micro to heat up) until friday. You could do some beef and some veg, and like the chicken pieces idea you can just chuck them all on a big plate and people can just grab one.
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/396221/Levi-Roots--vegetable-patties Simple veg recipe with cheap ingredients.

You could look up some more recipes from levi Root's bbc series "caribbean food made easy".

Excellent idea!!:T

GIRLPOWER_2

purpleheather2810 wrote: »

Omnomnom this thread is making me HUNGRY! Awesome! Can I come to your party please, OP?

Get ya grass skirt on and come on over.... will you cook whist I drink punch?

RAS

GIRLPOWER wrote: »

This does indeed sound very strange... can not imagine what it would taste like but I am intrigued now so will give it a go.. do you used tinned kidney beans?

I would not, which is why I suggest cooking them in advance. I find tinned beans too soft and pulpy for this dish.

It does sound strange, very strange and you need say a couple of tsps at least of thyme for enough beans for 4. I found it it in a Times cookbook about 30 years ago and it is really good.

Finefoot

Can you get caribbean food easily?
You could do fried plantain as an accompaniment.
You could make a dish from salted cod, onions, cabbage. It is quite quick to make as you can prepare all the ingredients before hand, and just saute them on the day, as you would with a stir fry.
lamb curry can be made in the slow cooker. You can prepare it and marinate on wednesday.
I agree about cooking the rice on fri.


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emiff6

Rum Punch:
1/2 cup icecubes
one & a half fl oz rum (light or dark)
1/2 fl oz Triple Sec
2 dashes Angostura bitters
juice 1/2 lime
2 dashes grenadine
2 fl oz each of:
orange juice
pineapple juice
guava juice

Shake ingredients together vigorously until thoroughly chilled. garnish with a slice of lime, maraschino cherry and grated nutmeg.

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