Jamaican Beef Soup Recipe
Saturday Soup | Jamaican Beef Soup
For as long as I can remember, Saturday's meant soup was on the menu! Even if we we visiting family or friends, we'd be offered Soup on a Saturday.
It's a Jamaican tradition, that I continue to this day.
Here's my recipe for Saturday soup.
The longest thing is preparing all the veg - the bit I don't like, but once that's out of the way, you can just add, stir and leave until ready.
You'll Need
- Water
- 3 spring onions (scallion)
- 2/3 sprigs of thyme
- 2 cloves of crushed garlic
- 1/2 whole scotch bonnet peppers
- 2 Maggi Chicken cubes
- Dunns River All Purpose Seasoning
- Beef or chicken.
- 2/3 carrots, washed, scraped and cubed
- Pumpkin or butternut squash, peeled and cubed
- 1 medium cho-cho, peeled and cubed
- Yellow yam, peeled and cubed
- 4/5 Irish potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 packet of noodle soup mix - Grace Chicken, Cock Soup, Beef & Pumpkin or Pumpkin are my personal faves
- 1 tablespoon(s) all purpose seasoning
- couple of pimento seeds (to your preference)
Saturday Soup/Beef Soup Directions
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Add water to your soup/stock pot - approx. 3/4s full.
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Add some of the chopped pumpkin, garlic, thyme, spring onion and Maggi cube to the pot. (add a scotch bonnet if you like it hot)
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Add the meat/chicken, some all purpose seasoning and leave to boil.
- Once the meat has started to soften, add your hard veg, the tougher the veg, the earlier you add it.
- Add the remaining pumpkin, carrots and cho-cho and cook until the meat is tender.
- Taste your pot! Add seasoning if required.
- When the meat is tender, add your yam, dumpling and potatoes
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When it looks almost ready, add in your soup noodle mix, corn cobettes, keep stirring so the noodles don't burn at the bottom of the pot.
- Let it simmer for another 10-15 minutes.
Enjoy.
PS I don't eat dumplings, but here's a recipe for those that need it!
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Combine flour, a pinch of salt with about half a cup of water and knead until it's a smooth dough texture.
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Leave it for about 15 minutes.
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Take some of the dough and make it the shape you want.