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Breadfruit Balls

Name: Breadfruit Balls
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Saint Lucia
Ingredients: 1/2 Breadfruit; 100g Salt Cod; 50g Melting Cheese; 2 Green Onion; 1 Egg; To taste Breadcrumbs; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Boiled breadfruit mashed, wrapped around salt cod or cheese, and fried — a Saint Lucian snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Breadfruit grows all over Saint Lucia and is boiled, roasted, or fried and eaten almost like a staple. Breadfruit balls are boiled, mashed breadfruit mixed with salt cod or cheese and herbs, rolled into balls, coated, and fried.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Under a breadfruit tree in a Saint Lucian yard, fresh fried balls are piled in a basket as the family nibbles.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Breadfruit 1/2
Salt Cod 100g
Melting Cheese 50g
Green Onion 2
Egg 1
Breadcrumbs To taste
Black Pepper A pinch
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Remove the skin and core from the breadfruit, cut, boil until soft, and mash.
Mix in the desalted, flaked salt cod, cheese, chopped green onion, and pepper.
Roll into golf-ball-sized balls.
Coat in beaten egg and breadcrumbs.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.

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