Steamed Cabbage And Saltfish Recipe | (2024)

This steamed cabbage and saltfish recipe makes a great midweek dinner. Quick and easy to make and very tasty. Cabbage, flaked saltfish cooked together with onion, bell pepper, thyme and scallion. Yummy!

Steamed Cabbage With Saltfish

I love steamed cabbage because it is so easy to prepare and it is very cheap to purchase. What makes this dish so good (at least for me) is the sweet taste from the cabbage combined with the salty taste from the saltfish. A hint of scotch bonnet pepper and I have the perfect dish.

I sometimes cook with coconut oil to add more sweet taste to the cabbage.

Soaking The Saltfish

Traditionally the saltfish is soaked overnight to get rid of the excess salt from the fish and help soften the fish. But these days there are many different types of saltfish and way of preparing the fish have change.

For example skinless and boneless saltfish isn’t as hard as the saltfish with the bones so you make not need to soak it overnight. If you do soak it overnight you won’t need to boil it before cooking it down with the other ingredients.

For this recipe, I am using the saltfish with its bones and I did not soak it overnight so I had to boil it first.

What You Need For Steamed Cabbage with Saltfish

Here’s what goes in this steamed cabbage dish.

• White cabbage: White cabbage with the light green leaves are best. They are easier to shred and cook unlit the cabbage with the white leaves.

• Saltfish: I always use saltfish that have bones and fish scale. This type of saltfish takes a little more time to prepare but I am ok with that. You can use boneless and skinless saltfish if you want less preparation time. If you use boneless and skinless slatfish you don’t have to boil it before you cook it down with the cabbage – given that you soaked it overnight.

• Carrot, scallion, onion, garlic, thyme, tomato, scotch bonnet pepper: Essential ingredients

• Bell pepper: You can use multiple colours or a single colour. I am using green and red.

• Salt (not in photo): Depending on how much of the salt you wash away, you may have to add a little salt back to the pot. Soaking some saltfish overnight with remove so much of the salt that you may have to add salt to the pot. Just make sure the pot is fully cooked before deciding if it wants more salt.

• Cooking Oil (not shown in the image): Butter is commonly used in Jamaican steamed cabbage. However, I never used it, I use either coconut oil or olive oil.

How To Make It Jamaican Steam Cabbage

Prepare the saltfish first. I did not soak the saltfish so I had to boil it to get rid of some of the salt. I then sauté it with the onion, scallion, garlic and thyme before adding the cabbage and the vegetables.

What To Serve It With

Steamed cabbage and saltfish is best served with hard food – boiled ground provisions such green banana, yam and pumpkin.

It also goes well with pumpkin rice, or coconut rice.

Other Cabbage Recipes

• Jamaican steamed cabbage

• Tuscan Cabbage

Related Recipes

• Callaloo with saltfish

• Spinach with saltfish

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Steamed Cabbage And Saltfish Recipe

Simple, tasty and goes with your favourite rice dish

5 from 10 votes

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Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Jamaican

Keyword: Fish, Steamed Vegetable

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 5 Servings

Calories: 201kcal

Author: Lesa

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Ingredients

• 1 lb Saltfish
• 1 Medium Cabbage Shredded
• 1 Bell pepper Chopped
• 1 Large carrot Shredded
• 2 Small tomatoes Diced
• 1 Stalk scallion Chopped
• 3 Sprig Thyme
• 1 Small onion Chopped
• 2 Cloves garlic
• ½ Scotch bonnet pepper Seed removed and finely chopped
• ¼ tsp Black pepper
• 2½ tbsp Olive Oil
• Salt (optional)

Instructions

• If you did not soak the saltfish, wash away the excess salt from the saltfish, place it in a saucepan with fresh water and put to boil for 10 minutes.

• Pour way the boiling water, add fresh clod water to cold the saltfish.

• Remove the skin and debone. Fake the saltfish and set aside.

• In a pot add the cooking and the chopped onion, garlic, scallion, scotch bonnet pepper and sauté on medium heat for two minutes.

• Stir in the flaked saltfish and cook for another 2 minutes.

• Add the tomato and thyme

• Stir in the bell pepper and cabbage. Cover and steamed on low heat for about 5 minutes.

• Add the carrot, cover and steam for another 5 minutes.

• Add the black pepper and any salt that you need. Turn the heat of and let it rest for 3 minutes. Serve with your favourite side

Notes

• You may way to add a bit of water to prevent the cabbage burning. I didn’t have to in this case because the pot created it’s own water.
• I add the carrot last because I like my carrot crunchy, if that is not your taste, add it when you add the bell peppers.

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Steamed Cabbage And Saltfish Recipe

Amount per Serving

Calories

201

% Daily Value*

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.