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Jamaican cuisine includes a mixture of cooking techniques, flavours and spices influenced by Amerindian, West African, Irish, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Indian, Chinese and Middle Eastern people who have inhabited the island. It is also influenced by the crops introduced into the island from tropical Southeast Asia, many of which are ...
Coco bread, made to sandwich the Jamaican patty. Cornbread bun-like pastry. Cow foot, stewed. Curry goat. Curry chicken. Dumpling, served boiled, fried, and/or baked. Escoveitch fish. Green bananas, eaten boiled, or sliced and fried to make banana chips. Jamaican festival, similar to a hushpuppy.
The ackee fruit (Blighia sapida) is the national fruit of Jamaica. [1] It was brought to the Caribbean from Ghana before 1725 as 'Ackee' or 'Aki', another name for the Akan people, Akyem. The fruit's scientific name honours Captain William Bligh who took the fruit from Jamaica to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England in 1793 and introduced ...
Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica, in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet marinated with a hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice.. The art of jerking (or cooking with jerk spice) originated with indigenous peoples in Jamaica from the Arawak and Taíno tribes, and was carried forward by the descendants of 17th century Jamaican Maroons who intermingled with them.
Jamaican patty. A Jamaican patty is a semicircular pastry that contains various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. [1] It is made like a turnover as it is formed by folding the circular dough cutout over the chosen filling, but is more savoury and filled with ground meat.
Run down, also referred to as rundown, [ 1 ]run dun, [ 2 ]rondón, fling-me-far, and fling mi for, [ 3 ] is a stew dish in Jamaican cuisine and Tobago cuisine. [ 4 ] The traditional Jamaican dish is eaten in several Latin American countries that share a coast with the Caribbean Sea. It consists of a soup made up of reduced coconut milk, [ 2 ...
Callaloo (/ ˌkæləˈluː / KAL-ə-LOO, [1] Jamaican Patois: [kalalu]; many spelling variants, such as kallaloo, calaloo, calalloo, calaloux, or callalloo) [2][3] is a plant used in popular dishes in many Caribbean countries, while for other Caribbean countries, a stew made with the plant is called callaloo. Cuisines, including the plant ...
Ackee and saltfish, a traditional Jamaican dish. Imported to Jamaica from West Africa before 1773, [2] [14] the use of ackee in Jamaican cuisine is prominent. Ackee is the national fruit of Jamaica, [8] whilst ackee and saltfish is the official national dish of Jamaica. [15] The ackee is allowed to open fully before picking in order to ...