Pepperpot
A Caribbean vegetable stew: a staircase of additions into one pot, aromatics fished out before the coconut milk goes in.
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kcal per person · of the recipe as written
Turn on a checklist above the table to tick things off
prepPeel and dice the potatoes and sweet potato; dice the carrots, celery and onion; strip the thyme leaves or keep sprigs whole to fish out later.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||
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| 🫒oil | 1–2 tbsp | 🍳sauté until translucent | ➕add | 🍳sauté 5 min | 🥄stir in | 🧂add · season | ♨️cover with broth simmer covered ~25 min | 🥢remove thyme, orange peel, cinnamon, scotch bonnet | 🔥stir in heat gently, don' t boil | 🍽️stir in until wilted serve hot |
| 🧅oniondiced | 1 | |||||||||
| 🧄garlic | 3 cloves | |||||||||
| 🫚ginger | 1 tbsp | |||||||||
| 🌶️scotch bonnetwhole · comes out at step 7 | 1 | |||||||||
| 🥕carrots | 2 | |||||||||
| 🥬celery | 2 stalks | |||||||||
| 🥔potatoes | 2 | |||||||||
| 🍠sweet potato | 1 | |||||||||
| 🌿fresh thymecomes out at step 7 | 6 sprigs | |||||||||
| 🌿oregano | 1 tbsp | |||||||||
| 🪵cinnamon stickcomes out at step 7 | 1 | |||||||||
| 🍊orange peelcomes out at step 7 | 2-inch piece | |||||||||
| 🧂salt & pepper | to taste | |||||||||
| 🍲vegetable brothenough to cover | 4–8 cups | |||||||||
| 🫘kidney beans | 1 can | |||||||||
| 🥥coconut milk | 1 can | |||||||||
| 🥬spinach | 2 cups | |||||||||
stepfinished dishdone2 ingredients without a calorie figure, so the total is a floor.
Scaled. Amounts only. Sizes and "to taste" stay as written. Times do not change, except reductions and browning. Salt and strong spice: use about three quarters, then taste. Leavening scales exactly. Yeast does not scale.
Steps, in words
- Sauté the onion in the oil until translucent.
- Add the garlic, ginger and the whole scotch bonnet.
- Add the carrots and celery. Sauté 5 minutes.
- Stir in the potatoes and sweet potato.
- Add the thyme, oregano, cinnamon stick and orange peel. Season with salt and pepper.
- Cover with broth. Simmer, covered, about 25 minutes.Use enough broth to cover: 4 cups for a thick stew, up to 8 for a soup.
- Fish out the thyme, orange peel, cinnamon stick and scotch bonnet.
- Stir in the kidney beans and coconut milk. Heat gently. Do not boil.Coconut milk splits if it boils.
- Stir in the spinach until wilted. Serve hot.
Notes
Whole aromatics. The chilli, thyme, cinnamon and peel go in whole at steps 2 and 5 and come out at step 7. They stay as rows because they are on the shopping list, and the removal is written into step 7 rather than drawn, which is the one thing this notation cannot draw.
Broth. The recipe gives a range. Both ends scale, but at 2× use a wider pot rather than a deeper one, or the potatoes at the bottom cook long before the top.