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Oil Down

Oil down

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⚠ A METHOD NAMED AS A DISH. Breadfruit, salted meat (pig tail, salt beef), chicken, callaloo, dasheen, green banana, dumplings, carrot and celery, all layered in a big pot with COCONUT MILK and TURMERIC and cooked until the coconut milk is entirely absorbed and the oil separates out at the bottom — "oiled down". Cooked outdoors over wood, in quantity, for a crowd: a beach lime, a fête, a cooperative workday. ⚠ EVERY HOUSEHOLD’S DIFFERS and no ingredient list is recorded as definitive; breadfruit, coconut milk, turmeric and salt meat are the constants. Related to Vincentian and Trinidadian oil down and to Tobago’s, and recorded as a Grenadian national dish within a shared Windward practice.

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Languages: Grenadian Creole English

What is recorded

  • Oil down is defined by method rather than by a fixed ingredient list: layered provisions, salt meat and greens cooked in coconut milk with turmeric until the liquid is fully absorbed. Breadfruit, coconut milk, turmeric and salt meat are recorded as the constants; no definitive ingredient list is recorded. It is Grenada’s national dish within a shared Windward practice. documented

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