How to Cook Perfect Jamaican Saturday soup with spinners and sinkers 🌱

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How to Cook Perfect Jamaican Saturday soup with spinners and sinkers 🌱 Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Jamaican Saturday soup with spinners and sinkers 🌱. Spinners are a type of Jamaican dumpling used primarily in soups and stews. Make them with just three ingredients—flour, water, and salt. These dumplings also are known as "spinners and sinkers" because their long, tapered shape causes them to sink and spin while they cook, whereas traditional.

In a large soup pot add the water and the package of Jamaican Cock soup with pumpkin.

Add the chopped vegetables, herbs, spices and bouillon and bring to a medium boil.

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You can have Jamaican Saturday soup with spinners and sinkers 🌱 using 28 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Jamaican Saturday soup with spinners and sinkers 🌱

  1. You need of For the dumplings.

  2. You need 1 cup of your choice of flour (traditionally plain white).

  3. Prepare of Enough water to make a stiff dough.

  4. You need 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder (optional depending on your flour).

  5. It’s Pinch of salt.

  6. Prepare of For the soup.

  7. It’s 1 of wedge of pumpkin.

  8. Prepare 1-2 of scotch bonnet peppers.

  9. It’s 1 sprig of Thyme.

  10. Prepare 2 of spring onions.

  11. It’s 1 of wedge of yam.

  12. You need 2 of parsnips.

  13. It’s 2 of Sweet potatoes.

  14. You need 1 of wedge of cabbage.

  15. Prepare A few of medium white or yellow potatoes.

  16. You need 2 of Carrots.

  17. You need 1 handful of greens.

  18. You need 1/2 cup of red lentils.

  19. Prepare 1 of Bay leaf.

  20. You need 2 cloves of Garlic.

  21. You need 1 of thumb ginger.

  22. Prepare Pinch of celery salt.

  23. You need 1/2 tsp of garlic or onion powder.

  24. Prepare 1/2 tsp of allspice.

  25. You need 1/2 inch of fresh turmeric root.

  26. It’s 1 of leek.

  27. Prepare 1-2 of onions.

  28. You need 1 pinch of freshly grated nutmeg.

Jamaican Chicken Pumpkin Soup is a traditional Saturday soup enjoyed by all.

Traditional dumplings just bob and float.

Dumplings have two basic shapes round and flat or rolled and long.

The latter shaped dumplings are called spinners.

Jamaican Saturday soup with spinners and sinkers 🌱 step by step

  1. Combine the flour and water until they bake a stiff dough. Knead for a few minutes, cover and allow the dough to rest..

  2. Wash the lentils and boil until the froth rises. Skim and remove. Peel the veggies keeping in large chunks and keeping the potatoes whole. Crush or chop the garlic and ginger and add to the water along with the bay and spice powders..

  3. Add the veggies to the pan (apart fro the greens) and bring to a simmer..

  4. Form the dough into spinners and sinkers. The spinners should be rolled into little long dumplings and the sinkers into flat rounds. This is nice for children to make and the more rustic the nicer they taste! Pop them into the pan pot to boil..

  5. Add the scotch bonnets and thyme to the top of the pan and cover with enough water or stock. Bring the pot to a lively simmer and cook for 30 minutes or until cooked to your liking. Ladle into bowls baking sure everyone gets a spinner and a sinker..

Omit the baking powder and dumplings are then called sinkers because they do not float.

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Add the spinner to the pot, and repeat until you run out of dough.

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