Jamaican Ackee Rundown

Name: Jamaican Ackee Rundown
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Jamaican
Ingredients: 2 cups coconut milk; 400g salted fish, soaked and flaked; 1 onion, sliced; 1 scotch bonnet pepper, whole

Run Down/run down/

Also known as: Rundown

About this dish

Fish or ackee simmered in a reduced coconut milk sauce until thick and creamy.

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Ingredients

🥥2 cups coconut milk

🐟400g salted fish, soaked and flaked

🧅1 onion, sliced

🌶️1 scotch bonnet pepper, whole

Method

Serves 3

Simmer the coconut milk over medium heat until it thickens and the oil separates.

Add onion and tomato, and cook until softened.

Add the flaked fish and scotch bonnet, and simmer until well combined.

Remove the whole pepper before serving.

Serve with boiled green bananas or bread.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Rundown is a traditional Jamaican dish, named for the process of 'running down' coconut milk until it reduces into a thick, oily sauce.

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