Bajan Chicken Soup
Bajan Chicken Soup is a Saturday staple in almost every Bajan household. This is why it's called "Saturday Soup" on sometimes.
Fresh pumpkin is the foundation of a wonderful Bajan soup. It can be pureed and put to salt water whole or pureed and added whole to salt water. The pumpkin is simmered with the chicken pieces of your choice, as well as pig tails and quartered onions, until the meat is cooked and the pumpkin has completely dissolved. The bright, characteristic color of this soup comes from the pumpkin! Sweet potatoes, squash, broccoli, yams, English potatoes, and a few more vegetables are steamed or boiled separately to serve with the soup. The dumplings are the last thing to be added. Flour, brown sugar, vanilla, nutmeg, and cinnamon are used to make these delectable treats.
- Ingredients
- 1 Ripe or half ripe Breadfruit,(peeled and cubed)
- 15 Okras (cut in half)
- 2 lbs English Potatoes peeled cubed
- 2 lbs sweet potatoes peeled and cubed
- 2 lbs Eddoes peeled ans cubed
- 3 lbs pumpkin cubed
- 1 lb pig tails chopped in small pieces
- 1 medium Onions minced
- 1 Stalk Celery finely chopped
- 1 sweet pepper finely chopped
- 1 Dash Pepper, black
- 1 large maggi cube flavor of your choice
- 3 lbs Chicken (thigh, wing, ribbs, backs or feet)
- 1/2 package of slit peas yellow or peas of your choice
- 1 tsp thymesalt to taste if need
Instructions
- Seasoned meat and prepared all vegetables in a large bowl.
- Place a large pot on the stove with water, combine Seasoned chicken, pigtails, onion, celery, sweet pepper, thyme, and peas in the pot cover and let cook for 45 mins or until meat and peas are fully cooked.
- Add vegetables and cube. Allow to simmer for 45 minutes add additional spices. Add additional water if required.Now add your okras and dumplings and allow to cook for a further 10 to 12 mins for okras n dumplings don’t take long to
- cook but if so desired okras can be cooked with vegetables
