Traditional Newfoundland Couldn'ts

Yield: 1 pan
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Serving: Family

Traditional Newfoundland Couldn'ts

By Bonita's Kitchen October 9, 2016

Hi and welcome to our website!

If you are new to our channel or just looking for a recipe to use up your jiggs dinner or boiled dinner leftovers.

This recipe is made with your leftover Jiggs Dinner, most Newfoundlanders the next day would take all the left overs and cut up in small pieces and fry in a cast iron pan on their stove top.

Sometimes there is no leftovers but years ago our elders would make enough to have leftovers for a different meal the next day or the third day.

Much like the JIGGS DINNER in PASTRIES we use the leftovers to make another meal.

Ingredients

Butter - 1 tbsp
Olive oil - 1 tbsp
Onion - 1 medium
Vegetable's - Left overs
Salt beef or pork - Left overs
Pinch sea salt
Pinch black pepper

Instructions

Couldn'ts

Means: left over Jiggs dinner you couldn't eat and the next day, for supper you would chop up your veggies and fry in a pan on your stove top.

Preheat your frying pan add 1 tbsp of butter, 1 tbsp olive oil, chop a medium onion in small pieces add to frying pan.

Fry onions until they are transparent, then chop your vegetables in small pieces and add to the frying pan. Pinch of salt and pepper.

Continue flipping your vegetables until they start to turn a light brown, at this point your can add any left over meat, ie: salt beef, chicken, or roast that you may have cooked with your Jiggs dinner.

This is optional, add left over gravy to your mixture or warm it in a saucepan to have over Couldn'ts.

This meal you would serve with mustard pickles and homemade bread covered in butter and a hot cup of black tea.

Could’nts or better known as fried hash is the leftovers from your boiled cooked dinner or Jiggs dinner. This is how the elders would use their leftover veggies, dressing, chicken and gravy years ago.