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Food for the Soul: 13 Aug 08

Caribbean Red (Quick, grab him!)

While we’re on a homey theme here, thought you might like this local (Creole?) recipe for chicken soup. (It appears on a Maggi soup mix packet). At least you can’t say we’re not thinking of you!

Chicken Foot Soup

Add 227g of chicken foot (yes, really!) to 2.5 litres of boiling water with a clove of garlic and few grains of pimento. Simmer 10 mins. Add 454g pumpkin and simmer for 15 mins more. Add 1 sliced carrot, 1 small cho cho (christophene) (still wondering?… for the Queenslanders amongst us it’s choko!), 3 small potatoes, chopped and 114g of yellow yam diced. Add 3 sprigs of thyme and 3 sprigs of escalion (chives). Season with spinners (I believe that’s small dumplings – no recipe for that!) and 1 scotch bonnet (a hot pepper). Continue cooking until vegetables are tender. Add 2 packets of Jamaica Cock Soup Mix with Pumpkin. Remove pepper before serving.

Roti Hut, a lunchtime snack bar, Antigua

Well, good luck. At least the vegies will be nice. Reminds me of that old story about cockatoo & stone soup? When the bird is cooked, throw it out and eat the stone.  

Oh yes, they really do have frozen packets of chicken foot here in the supermarkets if you need some! The Cap’n & I tasted this “local delicacy” of chicken’s feet in Hong Kong many years ago – I wasn’t going back for seconds then….