Akra and Bakes

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Saltfish Akra

Author

David Farnum + Fatima Farnum

Ingredients

Ingredients

• 4-5 cups salt fish/salted cod
• 2 cups sifted flour
• 2 tbsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp yeast
• 2 tbsp all purpose seasoning or fish seasoning
• 1 small onion chopped coarsely 
• 2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
• 1 cup colored bell peppers and banana pepper coarsely chopped
• 2 tbsp green seasoning
• 1 tbsp shadow beni/ culantro
• 1 1/2 cup lukewarm water
• 2 tbsp oil

Instructions

Instructions

1. Soak or boil saltfish until desalted then drain and flake your saltfish checking for missed bones.
2. heat oil in pan, add onion, bell pepper, garlic, shadow beni/culantro and cook until tender. 
3. Once tender go ahead and add in your salt fish all purpose seasoning/fish seasoning and combine and cook down, once combined well let it sit to the side off of the heat and cool down.
4. In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, yeast, all purpose or fish seasoning, green seasoning and mix, then add salt fish mixture that has cooled. Combine mixture and work until you have formed a medium texture adding water to achieve this result. Key, only add water a little at a time to ensure you do not end up with a runny mixture.
5. Heat oil in pan, add my either a table spoon or a small ice cream scoop, ensure the instrument of choice is dipped in oil or sprayed with cooking spray so the mixture does not stick when dropping balls into the hot oil. Fry your akra until nice and golden brown, make sure to keep moving when you first drop them so they do not stick together and become clumped. 
6. These should be served hot with a nice sauce of your choosing, personally we use a mixture of sweet and sour, sweet chilli, oyster sauce, and ketchup.
7. Lastly ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!

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