DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Green Fig and Saltfish
Also known as: Green Banana and Saltfish
Green cooking bananas with prepared salted cod, tomato, onion, garlic and coconut oil.
About Green Fig and Saltfish
Green fig and saltfish brings green cooking bananas together with salted fish, a combination closely associated with Saint Lucia. Chris De La Rosa's Caribbean rendition uses salted cod, tomato, onion and coconut oil.
Garlic, scallions and black pepper give the fish mixture its savoury aroma. Bird's-eye peppers add optional heat, while fresh thyme and bell pepper are further additions offered in his recipe.
The bananas provide a firm, starchy contrast to the flakes of salt cod. Ripe avocado slices are a suggested accompaniment to the complete meal.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Fish.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Green Fig and Saltfish
Chris De La Rosa's Caribbean green fig and saltfish with coconut oil.
- Green cooking bananasBase
- Prepared boned salted codProtein
- Coconut oilCooking medium
- TomatoBase
- OnionAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- ScallionsAromatic
- Bird's-eye peppersSeasoning · Optional
- Black pepperSeasoning
- WaterCooking medium
- SaltSeasoning
- Fresh thymeAromatic · Optional
- Bell pepperBase · Optional
- Ripe avocadoAccompaniment · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Green cooking bananas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual22 named greenfig/cookingbanana, broader cookingbanana mapping, no species/plantain equivalence invented.
- Prepared boned salted cod: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual23 named prepared product, source32 offers boil OR soak without complete written upstream timings/formula; preserve prepared input, no video-view claim.
- Coconut oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tomato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Scallions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Bird's-eye peppers (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual29/31 explicit omission optional, real offered present pepper variety rather than all pepper substitutes.
- Black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual33 banana boiling explicit water.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual35 explicitly traditional boil-salt option selected over author current dietary omission; actual offered branch, not invented restoration.
- Fresh thyme (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual37 method-only expressly offered.
- Bell pepper (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual37 expressly optional, colour unprovided.
- Ripe avocado (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual40 suggested serving slices, parent optional.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Saint Lucia
- DominicaCatalogue link pending review
- GrenadaCatalogue link pending review
- Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesCatalogue link pending review
- Saint LuciaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Caribbean Cuisine
- Grenadian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Saint Lucian Creole CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Vincentian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Dominica Creole CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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