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. It is also influenced by the crops introduced into the island from tropical West Africa and Southeast Asia, which are now grown locally. Jamaican cuisine includes dishes from the different cultures brought to the island, while other dishes are novel or a fusion of techniques and traditions. A wide variety of seafood, tropical fruits, and meats are available.
Jamaican dishes and foods
Ackee and saltfish, made from the local fruit ackee and dried and salted cod (saltfish). This is the national dish of Jamaica. It is often served with bread, Jamaican Cassava 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 Hard dough bread (hardo bread) Jamaican patty, a savoury and spicy pastry filled with meats (such as beef, curried chicken, shrimp, lobster), or other ingredients like ackee, callaloo, cheese, soy, steamed vegetables and more Jerk meats usually jerked: chicken, and pork Oxtail with (broad beans) Pan chicken (jerked chicken prepared and sold by street food vendors along with hard dough bread) Peanut, available raw, or hot and roasted as street food Peg bread Peppered shrimp, spicy seasoned and cooked (red in colour) Plantain, eaten green or ripe as is; can be boiled or fried. Usually served as side dishes. Porridge, popular flavours include oatmeal, cornmeal, peanut, banana, plantain, and hominy corn porridge. Rice and peas, the most popular style of rice for everyday use, and is a Sunday staple of most Jamaican households Roast yam and saltfish (either 'cooked up' or roasted as well) Roast conch Roti Run down, a dish consisting of pickled mackerel, coconut milk, herbs and spices Solomon gundy, a salt herring pâté Stamp and Go, dried and salted cod (saltfish) fritters Stew peas, a stew of red peas (kidney beans) which may be vegetarian or have pieces of meat added such as cured pig's tail Sugarcane, peeled, which is chewed to obtain the juice, or can be bought as bottled sugarcane juice Sweet bread, softer than normal bread with a slight sweetness Sweet potato Taro, locally known as dasheen and coco Taro dumpling Tripe and beans Water crackers Yam
Fruits
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Acerola cherry
Breadfruit
Coconut- young green coconuts provide coconut water and jelly, while the older coconuts are grated to make Jamaican desserts, sweets and coconut milk Custard apple Guava Guinep Jackfruit June plum (Tahitian apple) Mango, many species available locally. The popular species are locally called East Indian, Number 11, Julie, Milli, Stringy, Tommy Atkins, Blackie, Bombay and Graham. Naseberry (known as Sapodilla throughout the rest of the Caribbean) Otaheite apple (Malay apple) Paw-paw (papaya) Passion fruit Pineapple Pomegranate Soursop Starapple Starfruit Sweetsop Tamarind
Desserts and sweets
Asham
Blue Draws, also called tie-a-leaf because it is cooked in tied banana leaves
Bulla cake
Busta coconut sweets (Bustamante Backbone) Cocktion Coconut drop (Cut cake) Cornmeal Pudding Devon House Ice Cream (variety of quality flavours) Gizzada, also called Pinch-Me-Round sex Peanut Drops Plantain Tart Rock cake Rum cake Spice Bun / Easter Bun, a popular sweet loaf (sometimes includes raisins or fruit), regular Bun is eaten all year, Easter Bun is often eaten around Easter Sweet Potato Pudding Tamarind Balls, tamarind fruit rolled into balls and lightly coated with sugar Toto
Herbs, spices and condiments
Allspice, known locally as pimento
Cinnamon
Cloves
Curry powder, Jamaican or Indian, which features a blend of turmeric, coriander, fenugreek, cumin, allspice, black pepper and cloves. Turmeric is the predominant spice and accounts for curry powder's yellow colour. Escallion Garlic Ginger Jamaican jerk spice, a blend of spices featuring allspice, locally known as pimento Nutmeg Pickapeppa sauce (usually made from small amounts of scotch bonnet pepper, and vinegar) Rosemary Scotch bonnet pepper Soya sauce Thyme leaves Turmeric