Seafood Soup - (Jamaican -Style)

coconut milk

🥗Healthier: light coconut milk

💰Cheaper: evaporated milk

Light coconut milk reduces calories while maintaining creaminess.

shrimp

🥗Healthier: chicken breast

💰Cheaper: canned tuna

Canned tuna is a more affordable protein option.

Add 2 cups of pumpkin to a pot of cold water along with a medium sized onion and fresh garlic cloves.

Cover the pot and bring the water to a rapid boil on high heat.

Cook the pumpkin for about 15 to 20 minutes or until fork tender.

Remove a few pieces of pumpkin and mash them to check tenderness.

Mash the pumpkin against the side of the pot until about 90% is mashed down to enhance the color of the soup.

Prepare dumplings by mixing 2 cups of all-purpose flour with 3/4 cups of water until a soft but firm dough forms.

Shape half of the dough into flat dumplings and the other half into cylindrical spinners.

Reduce heat to medium and add potatoes and white yam to the pot.

Pull apart the layers of the onion and add it back to the pot.

Carefully add the dumplings to the pot one by one and cover to cook for about 10 minutes.

Add corn, okra, carrots, Cho Cho, scallion, thyme, and scotch bonnet pepper to the pot.

Cover and cook for another 10 minutes.

Add fish flavored soup mix and pumpkin flavored soup mix to the pot.

Cover and cook for another 10 minutes.

Taste the soup and add 3 tablespoons of all-purpose seasoning, 2 teaspoons of onion powder, 2 teaspoons of garlic powder, and 2 teaspoons of salt.

Cover and cook for 5 minutes.

Add shrimp and clementa seeds to the pot and cover to cook for 2 to 3 minutes.

Cooking Techniques

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