Foil roast curry conch with pumpkin and okra
original blog post: https://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2018/03/foil-roast-curry-conch-with-pumpkin-and.html
Ingredients
For the marinade
2 lb cleaned conch
¼ cup chopped Onion
¼ cup chopped Sweet pepper
¼ cup chopped Tomato
3 Garlic cloves shredded
1 teaspoon Salt
¼ teaspoon Black pepper
½ teaspoon ground Allspice
1 teaspoon Lemon juice
For the foil roast
2 tablespoon coconut oil
1 tablespoon curry powder
2 cups chopped pumpkin
1 cup chopped okra
1 fish flavored bullion
1 Scotch bonnet pepper
3 tablespoon salted butter
3 garlic cloves shredded
Instructions
- Clean the conch so that it’s all white meat
- Place in plastic film and pound as flat as possible to tenderize
- Cut into bite size pieces
- Season with onion, sweet pepper, tomato, garlic, salt, black pepper, allspice and lemon juice.
- Marinate in the refrigerator overnight
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- Wash and peel the pumpkin chop into cubes, wash and slice the okra
- Place the coconut oil in a pan to heat up on medium high heat
- Add the curry powder and cook for a minute
- Add the entire mixture of marinated conch and sauté for a few minutes
- Add the pumpkin and okra and stir to completely incorporate
- Season with the fish bullion cube, or salt to taste
- Pour the contents onto a thick ply sheet of foil
- Slice the hot pepper over top
- fold the foil in half sealing the edges to create a pouch with the conch inside
- Place in the oven on a sheet pan and cook for 50 minutes
- In a bowl mix together, the shredded garlic and butter into a paste
- After 50 minutes remove from the oven, cut open the top of the foil
- Place dollops of garlic butter all over the conch
- Put back in the oven for another 10 minutes
- Remove from the oven stir and serve