I do repair/DIY content that I would consider evergreen - they never "Go viral" but each video gets a few hits/views every day.
The key to a channel that focuses on long term content are keywords and SEO. Evergreens need to be watered like any other video type, but they take longer to establish on a good trendline. When doing a recipe video, use TubeBuddy's Keyword system to find a good major, main title for your video that has low (or very low) competition and do not worry about their scale regarding how many searches or views the content gets unless its absolutely zero.
The idea is that there is going to be a pretty consistent number of people every day searching for that specific keyword either by Google Search or YouTube Search. It may be 50, 100, or 500 people a day, but you want to rank well for that major keyword (use it in title, description, and tags) along with any others.
Since your focus is Jamaican cooking, you'd want to use that phrase + major dish keywords in every title, optimally. That way you'll rank really high for the dish, then do well on the larger keyword which would be Jamaican cooking in general. I do this with repair videos, and it seems to work really well: You want to capture the majority of dish search views, then a minority of Jamaican cooking (but as you grow, you'll start going after the entire keyword).
Beyond that, you'll use other descriptive tagging/description keywords that would surround that genre of cooking - ingredients or other components. Eventually, videos with good CTR/average watch time will attract a following via Browse Features (general audiences that like cooking) and Suggested Videos (viewers watching similar cooking videos that are recommended). These will grow the videos into a titan.
However, I will warn you: Don't expect such videos to blow up overnight. When you're combatting for YT Search results, it can take weeks or months to get ranked well. Use TubeBuddy's tag ranking system to see what tags rank, and where they grow and expand to over time. Of course, cooking videos can be binged, so your channel would grow exponentially as you add to a library of cooking videos, so it may start out slow but eventually grow into something very large.
