Stuffed Christophene

Name: Stuffed Christophene
Prep time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves 2 as a main course or 4 as a side dish
Cuisine: Jamaica
Ingredients: a dash of hot pepper sauce; ¼ tsp grated nutmeg; 2 slices of fresh white bread, trimmed and whizzed into crumbs; 1 spring onion, chopped; 1 tbsp butter; 2 christophenes; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; 75 g/¾ cup grated Cheddar cheese

Preparation info

Serves
2
as a main course

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

Eat Caribbean

By Virginia Burke

Published 2005

About

A delicious starter, side dish or main vegetarian course. Christophenes (cho-chos) are usually eaten steamed with butter or in soups. They are great in salads, raw, but that is not a traditional use. They are popular stuffed with meat, but we won’t discuss that in this chapter.

Ingredients

2 christophenes
1 tbsp butter
1 spring onion, chopped

Americas
Jamaica
Starter
Side dish
Main course
Caribbean
Vegetarian

Method

Cut the christophenes in two lengthways, place in a pot of boiling, salted water and cook until tender. Remove from the heat, drain and leave to cool.
Sauté the chopped spring onion in butter until softened. Then add the breadcrumbs and fry until brown.
Scoop the seed and coarse centre vein out of the christophenes and discard. Scoop out the rest of t