50+ Friends Club Cookbook
Fish and Shellfish

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Bouljol

A Trinidad Recipe
From the Kitchen of:  Trini

1	pack	Saltfish (salted cod), preferably without bones
		Pepper
		A little sugar
1		Hot pepper
		Lots of lime juice
		Vegetable oil
		Onion
		Tomato
		Cucumber (optional)
1		Hard-boiled egg
		Chive
		Sweet pepper
1		Leaf chadon bene, cut up finely (optional)

1. Boil salt fish in water to extract some salt, then drain and clean, if necessary. Cut up very small.
2. While fish is boiling, cut finely the onions, tomatoes, chive, sweet pepper and hot pepper, chadon bene and crush hardboiled egg with a fork.
3. Peel and remove seeds from cucumber and cut up finely.
4. Add vegetables to salt fish and season with pepper, lots of lime juice and oil (it takes several tablespoons of oil), and a little sugar.