How to Make Jamaican “Mannish Water” Goat Head Soup
Mannish Water aka Goat Head Soup – what is goat head soup? It is a Jamaican soup made from various goat parts like the goat’s head, intestines, testicles, and feet. The soup is jam-packed with nutrients. It is also believed to lower the intoxicating effects and treat hangovers. The most popular is that mannish water has a reputation across Jamaica for being an aphrodisiac.
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Where is goat head soup from?
Goat head soup originated in the country of Jamaica. It is considered a delicacy, it’s also severed at events and parties.
Is mannish water spicy?
You can control the spice in your goat head soup, we love ours full of spice, meaty, and pungent.
How is goat head soup aka Manish water made?
Goat head soup is prepared using goat meat, spices, herbs, scotch bonnet, seasonings, water, ground provision, and flour.
What is the benefit of goat head soup?
Goat Head Soup is rich in vitamins and minerals its also a good source of Vitamin B12, Zinc, Phosphorus, Selenium, Iron, and Copper. So the next time you eat a nutritious bowl of Mannish water just know that you are drinking a bowl of healthy soup.
Goat Head Soup Ingredients
- Raw Goat Head
- Burnt goat head
- Yellow yam
- Cho Cho (chayote)
- Irish potatoes
- Carrot
- Fresh Pumpkin
- Corn
- Dasheen
- Raw Garlic
- Scallion
- Onion
- Thyme
- Pimento berries
- Water
- Ram Cock Soup
- Ram It Up
- Scotch bonnet pepper
- Black pepper
- Complete seasoning
- Salt
- Turnips
- Raw Ginger
- Green banana
- Okra
Ingredients For Dumplings
- Flour
- Water
How to Make the Goat Head Soup
- Bring a pot of water(your desired amount) to a boil with the goat head, garlic, onion, thyme, scallion, and pimento berries. Also season it with 3 tbsp black pepper, and 4 tbsp complete seasoning.
- After 1-2 hours your goat head should be soft or 30 mins to an hour in the pressure cooker. Remove the goat head and chop it up into pieces.
- Place pumpkin in the pot and boil until soft or dissolved. The pumpkin should have broken down.
- Add back the goat head and ram it up seasoning to the pot.
- While that is boiling chop up your roots and vegetables such as Carrots, Corn, Scallions, Onion, Potatoes, Yellow Yam, Chayote (Cho-Cho), Cocoyam, and Turnip and place them in a bowl of fresh water so that they don’t change color.
- After the pumpkin and goat head is boiled add in the scotch bonnet, Cho Cho, dasheen, carrots, turnip, yellow yam, and thyme.
- Then, season the pot with complete seasoning, adobo, black pepper, and salt.
- Make your dumpling aka spinners.
- Once all of the ingredients have been added reduce the heat to medium, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes until the soup thickens up.
- Add in your corn, okra, banana, potatoes, and ram cock soup mix and simmer for 5-10 minutes.
- Place spinners into the boiling pot of soup.
- And boil for 5 minutes then serve hot.
How to Make the Dumplings/ Spinners
- In a medium bowl, add the flour and salt.
- Add the water and mix to form a dough.
- Knead until the dough is smooth.
- Grab a small (golf ball size) amount of the dough and roll it into the palm of your hands to create “spinners”. To make regular-shaped dumplings form the dough ball into discs.
Is goat soup good for health?
Goat Head Soup contains a high amount of risky components that may include saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. Not to mention it’s a good source of proteins that helps in muscle development by having goat head soup regularly. The soup contains plenty of calcium which is essential for the body’s strengthening needs.
How long does it take to boil goat head?
In a stock pot large or wide enough to fit the head, sweat the onion and garlic for 5 minutes until translucent. Add the head, hominy, stew meat, bay leaves, dried oregano, and water, cover, and bring the mixture to a low simmer, then cover and cook for 3-4 hours.
Is goat head white or red meat?
A goat is classified as a slice of red meat.
How do you boil a goat’s head?
Wash the goat head meat a couple of times in running water. Then add the meat into a pot with pimento berries, thyme, garlic, onions, scallions, and spices, and boil until soft. If you’re using a pressure cooker cook for at least 30 minutes or until soft.
How do you clean a goat head?
Bring the goat head to a boil. And this skull when soft the skin had split on the top of the head and exposed the nose bones and you’ll get the flesh.
How long does it take to boil goat head?
In a soup pot large or wide enough to fit the head, place the meat into a pot with pimento berries, thyme, garlic, onions, scallions, and spices, and boil until soft. If you’re using a pressure cooker, cook for at least 30 minutes or until soft.
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Ingredients
- 1 pack Raw Goat Head
- 1 pack burnt goat head
- 1 lb yellow yam chopped
- 3 cho cho chayote peel and cubed
- 3 medium Irish potatoes chopped
- 1-2 medium carrot s (chopped)
- 1 lb Fresh pumpkin cubed
- Corn cut into pieces
- 2 Medium Dasheen chopped
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 3 scallion chopped
- 1 large onion chopped
- 7 sprigs of thyme
- 7 pimento berries
- Water
- 1 Ram Cock Soup
- 1 Ram It Up Mix
- 1 scotch bonnet pepper
- 3 tbsp black pepper to taste
- 3 tbsp complete seasoning to taste
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 pound turnips diced
- 1/8 cup ginger peeled
- Green banana peel some of the skin off, see video
- 2 cups of okra
- For the dumpling
- 2 cups flour
- ½ cup water add more if necessary
Instructions
- How to Make the Dumplings
- * In a medium bowl, add the flour and salt.
- * Add the water and mix to form a dough.
- * Knead until the dough is smooth
- * Grab a small (golf ball size) amount of the dough and roll it into the palm of your hands to create “spinners”. To make regular-shaped dumplings form the dough ball into discs.
- How to Make the Goat Head Soup
- * Bring a pot of water(your desired amount) to a boil with the goat head, garlic, onion, thyme, scallion, and pimento berries. Also season it with 3 tbsp black pepper, and 4 tbsp complete seasoning.
- * After 1-2 hours your goat head should be soft or 30 mins to an hour in the pressure cooker. Remove the goat head and chop it up into pieces.
- * Place pumpkin in the pot and boil until soft or dissolved. The pumpkin should have broken down.
- * Add back the goat head and ram it up seasoning to the pot.
- * While that is boiling chop up your roots and vegetables such as Carrots, Corn, Scallions, Onion, Potatoes, Yellow Yam, Chayote (Cho-Cho), Cocoyam, and Turnip and place them in a bowl of fresh water so that they don’t change color.
- * After the pumpkin and goat head is boiled add in the scotch bonnet, Cho Cho, dasheen, carrots, turnip, yellow yam, and thyme.
- * Then, season the pot with complete seasoning, adobo, black pepper, and salt.
- * Make your dumpling aka spinners.
- * Once all of the ingredients have been added reduce the heat to medium, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes until the soup thickens up.
- * Add in your corn, okra, banana, potatoes, and ram cock soup mix and simmer for 5-10 minutes.
- * Place spinners into the boiling pot of soup.
- * And boil for 5 minutes then serve hot.
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