15 Best 30 Minute Jamaican Meals
“She watches over the ways of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness.” (Proverbs 31:27 NKJV)
Busy weeknights call for dinners that are fast and still full of flavor. These are our 15 best Jamaican meals that are ready in 30 minutes or less, from jerk salmon and crispy curry fried chicken to tacos, pasta and rice dishes the whole family will ask for again.
Chicken Dinners
1. Jamaican Curry Fried Chicken
Ready in 25 minutes. Golden, crispy and full of curry flavor.
2. Jerk Chicken Fried Rice
Ready in 30 minutes. Leftover rice, jerk chicken and veggies in one pan.
3. Honey Jerk Chicken Skewers
Ready in 30 minutes. Sticky, sweet and made in the air fryer.
4. Jerk Chicken Tacos
Ready in 30 minutes. Smoky jerk chicken piled into warm tortillas.
5. Air Fryer Jerk Wings
Ready in 20 minutes. Crispy wings with jerk flavor, no deep fryer needed.
6. Air Fryer Jerk Chicken Pasta Salad
Ready in 30 minutes. A cold pasta salad with jerk chicken, great for busy nights.
Salmon and Fish
7. Jerk Blackened Salmon
Ready in 15 minutes. Bold jerk spices and a blackened crust on flaky salmon.
8. Honey Garlic Salmon
Ready in 20 minutes. Sweet, garlicky and ready in a single pan.
9. Cajun Salmon Bites
Ready in 20 minutes. Seasoned salmon bites with a little heat.
10. Escovitch Fish Tacos
Ready in 20 minutes. Crispy fish topped with tangy escovitch veggies.
Steak, Pasta and Rice
11. Pan-Seared Jerk Herb Crusted Steak
Ready in 20 minutes. A herb crusted steak seared in a hot pan.
12. Penne alla Rum
Ready in 30 minutes. Creamy pasta with a Caribbean twist.
13. Jamaican Corned Beef and Cabbage
Ready in 30 minutes. A classic Jamaican skillet dinner.
14. Jamaican Style Fried Rice and Peas
Ready in 20 minutes. A quick Jamaican style fried rice for busy nights.
15. Curry Rice
Ready in 20 minutes. Fragrant curry rice that pairs with almost anything.
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.”
John 15:4 NKJV
A Word of Wisdom
Jesus Christ is all we need in this life. As He said, He is the tree and we are the branches. If a branch is broken off the tree, it no longer lives but starts to die and dry out. An what do we do with dead branches? We burn them for fire. This is what will happen to anyone that is not attached to Jesus. The end of that persons fate is hell fire. But if we abide in Him, or stay attached to Jesus, we will have eternal life. He lives forever, He has already been immortalized, and He promises this to us believers.
So how do we abide in Him? By keeping His words in us. He is the Word of God that became flesh. All the words that He spoke come from our Father in heaven Yah. Jesus is Yah in the flesh. God is a Spirit. So in order for us to know Him, He came as a human being through Jesus, and called Him His only Son. Jesus is in Yah and Yah is in Him. All His words bring life. For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of Yah.
Every single word that Jesus spoke came from Yah. If we abide in what Jesus told us, we shall never die, but we will all live. Love Him and keep His commandments. Keep His sayings. Hold on to His words of life. His parables, everything we read in the gospels, keep them in your memory, to the point where you start to speak just like Him. An as He said, out of your belly shall flow living waters. Why? Because the words you will start to speak will be His words of life, for us to share to others as well.
Abide in Jesus, He will manifest Himself to you and bless you with the Holy Spirit, that seals us with His promises and gives us the power to overcome death unto eternal life.
Rum Cream Espresso Martini
Ingredients
- ½ cup Jamaican rum cream
- ½ cup vodka
- ½ cup strong Blue Mountain coffee , brewed and cooled
- ¼ cup Kamora Coffee Liqueur
- 2 cups ice
- 6 coffee beans , for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Brew the coffee. Make it strong and let it cool completely. Hot coffee will melt your ice and water the drink down.
- Chill your glasses. Pop two martini glasses in the freezer for a few minutes.
- Add everything to a shaker. Pour in the rum cream, vodka, coffee, and Kamora, then add the ice.
- Shake hard. Shake for about 20 seconds, until the shaker is very cold. This is what builds the foam on top.
- Strain and pour. Strain evenly into the two chilled glasses.
- Garnish. Float three coffee beans on top of each glass and serve right away.
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