Jamaican Dishes and Bakery

Specialised

RICE AND PEAS — kidney beans or gungo (pigeon) peas cooked in coconut milk with thyme, scallion and a whole Scotch bonnet left unbroken, the Sunday dish. BROWN STEW chicken or fish. ESCOVITCH fish, fried and drowned in vinegar, onion and pepper — Iberian escabeche by way of Sephardic settlement. RUNDOWN, mackerel in reduced coconut milk. MANNISH WATER, the goat soup. PEPPERPOT SOUP with callaloo and okra — ⚠ A SOUP, and not the Guyanese cassareep stew of the same name. OXTAIL with butter beans. CURRY GOAT. BAMMY, the Taíno-descended cassava flatbread. FESTIVAL, the sweet fried dumpling. And the bakery: the JAMAICAN PATTY with its turmeric crust, COCO BREAD, BUN AND CHEESE at Easter, gizzada, toto, grater cake and the plantain tart.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Jamaican Patois

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Sephardi Foodways documented

    Escovitch is escabeche, arriving with Sephardic settlement in Jamaica.

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