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A plate of jerk chicken, with rice, plantains, carrots and green beans. This is a list of Jamaican dishes and foods.Jamaican cuisine includes a mixture of cooking techniques, flavors, spices and influences from the indigenous people on the island of Jamaica, and the Africans and Indians who have inhabited the island.
Popular Jamaican dishes include curry goat, fried dumplings, ackee and saltfish. Jamaican patties along with various pastries, breads and beverages are also popular. Jamaican cuisine has spread with emigrants, especially during the 20th century, from the island to other nations as Jamaicans have sought economic opportunities in other countries.
Mannish water is a goat soup in Jamaican cuisine.It is believed to be an aphrodisiac and is made from various goat parts.. The soup has been sold packaged since 2006 when it competed for Best New Food Idea in a competition covered by The Jamaica Observer.
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 technique of jerking (or cooking with jerk spice) originated from Jamaica's indigenous peoples, the Arawak and Taíno tribes, and was adopted by the descendants of 17th-century Jamaican Maroons who intermingled with them.
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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.
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Banana – in Jamaican cuisine, boiled green bananas are served as a breakfast side dish. [1] Banana nut bread Banana bread [14] [15] Barley honey – a Japanese product prepared with barley starch, typically combined with rice flour [16] Bear claw – Pastry with almond paste filling [17] Bhakri – Flatbread of western and central India [18]