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Solomon Gundy is a Jamaican pickled (with salt) fish pâté usually served with crackers as an appetizer. The pâté is made with smoked red herring (although other fish such as mackerel and shad are also sometimes used [1]) and is minced and spiced with Scotch Bonnet peppers and seasonings. [2] The dish appears on the menus of Jamaican ...
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 ...
A water biscuit (Commonwealth English) or water cracker (American English) is a type of savoury cracker. They are thin, hard and brittle, and usually served with cheese or wine. [1] Originally produced in the 19th century as a version of the ship's biscuit, water biscuits continue to be popular in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland ...
Jerk (cooking) 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 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 ...
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. 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 ...