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Join Kwame Onwuachi, the award-winning chef and best-selling author, on a journey to Jamaica as he explores his Afro-Caribbean culture, cuisine, and heritage. Get a true taste of Jamaican recipes and ingredients when you learn the secrets to making iconic dishes like jerk chicken, oxtail, rice and peas, curried goat, and beef patties with coco bread. Kwame’s classically trained chef background will feed your culinary knowledge as he teaches fundamental techniques that every great home cook needs to know, like tips for prepping your pantry with the utmost essentials and how to make the most incredible soup stock recipes. Prepare for an immersive and flavorful joyride through the beautiful island of Jamaica and learn game-changing skills like layering and building flavors and how to cook with intention. Kwame’s class will give you a new repertoire of recipes and empower you with the tools to elevate every dish you ever make.
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My Afro-Caribbean Kitchen
Story: Documentary ● Jamaica
Kwame's Pantry
Learn: Jerk Paste ● Marination ● Spice Blends ● Curry Powder ● "Salt on Steroids"
Learn how to make jerk paste, marination, curry powder, and Kwame’s famous AP (all-purpose) seasoning, which he calls “salt on steroids” and puts on everything! This lesson is the building block for almost every recipe Kwame will make.
18:43
Stocks: Chicken, Vegetable & Shrimp
Learn: Roasting ● Chicken Stock ● Shrimp Stock ● Vegetable Stock
Looking for the secret of how to get your food to taste better than everyone else’s? Kwame will show you how. Stocks are the foundation of cooking, the building blocks of flavor and cuisine. Learn how to make chicken stock, shrimp stock, and vegetable stock, and you’ll instantly elevate your food.
28:56
Pepper Shrimp
Learn: Sauce ● Snack ● Preservation
Pepper shrimp is one of Kwame’s favorite snacks. Growing up in the Bronx, he’d always chow down on the electrifying dish. In Jamaica, he looks forward to eating on the road from Montego Bay to Kingston, and on the beautiful beaches. Learn how to make this easy shrimp recipe, which is preserved in a spicy and electrifying sauce.
07:11
Marinades
Learn: Marinating Oxtails ● Marinating Goat ● Marinating Chicken
Jamaican recipes are famous for their long overnight marinades. In this lesson, Kwame teaches how to pack a whole lot of flavor into any dish and shows how to make marinades for three dishes: Brown stew chicken, oxtails, and curried goat.
25:36
Patties with Coco Bread
Learn: Patty Dough ● Coco Bread Bake ● Patty Bake ● Patty Filling ● Patty Assembly ● Coco Bread Dough
Beef patties are Jamaica’s ubiquitous fast food. While growing up in the Bronx, Kwame used to eat the flaky meat-filled hand pie nearly every day after school and church. The quintessential Jamaican snack goes hand in hand with pillowy soft coco bread. Kwame teaches how to make the patty pastry dough, the beautifully seasoned beef filling, and delicious coco bread.
36:28
Escovitch Fish
Learn: Shallow-Frying ● Escovitch Sauce ● Brown Stew ● Drenching
Transport yourself to the beaches of Jamaica and make Kwame’s favorite fried dish. The freshly-caught snapper is rubbed with marination and all-purpose seasoning, shallow-fried until the skin crisps, then is drenched with Escovitch sauce, a mixture of vinegar, carrots, onions, all-spice, and spicy Scotch bonnet peppers.
14:22
Jamaican Stew Peas
Learn: How to Choose: Red Peas, Pigeon Peas ● How to Soak
Comfort food at its finest. Kwame grew up eating this “pot of wonderful magic liquid” with his father: a stew dish with gungo peas (pigeon peas), red peas (kidney beans), salted meats, and coconut peas.
13:42
Brown Stew Chicken & Fried Plantain
Learn: Browning ● Calypso Aioli ● Fried Plantain ● Plating
This comforting dish reminds Kwame of home. The chicken is braised in a rich brown gravy with a hint of spicy Scotch bonnet pepper. Kwame serves it with fried plantains and calypso aioli, making it a fantastic dish that will be a total crowd-pleaser.
Jamaican Breakfast
Learn: Saltfish
It’s not breakfast in Jamaica without ackee and saltfish, a dish that Kwame’s Grandma Gloria would serve him as a child. Kwame teaches all about Jamaica’s national dish which reminds him of comfort and heritage.
Braised Oxtail with Rice & Peas
Learn: Braising ● Rum Punch
Kwame’s mom is in town and they cook together for the first time in Jamaica. Learn how to make this classic Jamaican dish and a delicious rum punch cocktail.
Curried Goat with Green Potatoes
Learn: Curried Goat ● Green Seasoning Potatoes Green Seasoning ● Aioli White Rice ● Caramelization ● Layering Flavors
When Kwame thinks back to his childhood, curried goat is his earliest food memory, a dish that his grandfather used to make. Kwame not only teaches how to make his favorite Jamaican recipe, but he also shares important cooking skills like caramelization, cooking with thought and intention, and layering flavors. He serves them with the most perfect green seasoning potatoes.
Jerk Chicken
Learn: Jerk Chicken ● Jerk Chicken ● Jerk Marinade ● Jerk Brine ● BBQ Sauce ● Braising ● Fire Setup
No Jamaican food cooking class would be complete without an excellent jerk chicken recipe. Kwame has been eating jerk chicken his whole life and shares with you his secret recipe. What’s even better? The jerk paste is the building block to so many other dishes, and can be used in soups, stews, stocks, salad dressings, dips, and marinades.
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Story: Documentary ● Tel Aviv & Mattat, Israel
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