This is an AI-generated image.

Conkies

Name: Conkies
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Barbados
Ingredients: 200g Corn grits; 200g Pumpkin; 1/2 Sweet potato; 100g Shredded Coconut; 50g All-purpose flour; 120g Brown sugar; 50g Raisins; 200ml Milk; 60g Butter; 1/2 tsp Nutmeg; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; 1 tsp Vanilla Extract; To taste Banana Leaves

Dessert

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Cornmeal, pumpkin, and coconut steamed in banana leaves — a Barbadian Independence Day sweet.

📱 Open in Storage App

🚧 The Storage app is currently in development. Please check back soon.

📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Conkies are a traditional Barbadian sweet: cornmeal is mixed with grated pumpkin and sweet potato, coconut, raisins, and spices, wrapped in banana leaves, and steamed. Originally a sweet for Guy Fawkes Day of British tradition, they're now made for Independence Day on November 30.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On Independence Day in Barbados, small banana-leaf parcels pile up on the kitchen table and unwrap to reveal orange dough.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

Corn grits 200g
Pumpkin 200g
Sweet potato 1/2
Shredded Coconut 100g
All-purpose flour 50g
Brown sugar 120g
Raisins 50g
Milk 200ml
Butter 60g
Nutmeg 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Vanilla Extract 1 tsp
Banana Leaves To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Grate the pumpkin and sweet potato.
Mix the corn grits, flour, coconut, dark sugar, and spices.
Add the grated vegetables, raisins, melted butter, milk, and vanilla and mix.
Soften banana leaves by passing them briefly over a flame, place 3 tbsp of batter on each, and wrap into squares.
Steam for 1 hour.

← More Barbados recipes 🗺 Explore another country