Meaning
Salted or pickled mackerel cooked down in coconut milk until the milk reduces to a thick, oily, richly seasoned gravy — the classic 'run-down'. Made with onion, tomato, scallion, thyme, and scotch bonnet, mackerel rundown is eaten with boiled green banana, dumplings, or roast breadfruit, and it is a deeply loved traditional dish, humble but full of flavour. 'Rundown' is the cooking-down of coconut milk that gives it its name.
Examples
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Mackerel rundown wid green banana a real dinner.
Mackerel rundown with green banana is a real dinner.
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Cook di mackerel dung inna di coconut milk.
Cook the mackerel down in the coconut milk.
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Di rundown thick an oily an tasty.
The rundown is thick, oily, and tasty.
Origin
From 'mackerel' + 'run-down' (coconut milk cooked down); the classic rundown dish. See [[cook-down]], [[tin-mackerel]].
How it’s used
Salted/pickled mackerel cooked down in coconut milk. See [[cook-down]], [[tin-mackerel]].