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Glossary of Jamaican Food Specialities
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Glossary of Jamaican Food Specialities
 
Johnny Cakes
A popular bread used in Jamaica, a main side dish served with… everything!

Seafood Brown Stew Fish
Whole red snapper seasoned and pan fried in herbs and spices. Served with rice and peas, and fried plantains

Escovitch Fish
Whole red snapper cooked and pickled in a tasty sauce of vinegar and spices and garnished with onions, carrots and peppers.

Curried Shrimp
Jumbo shrimp cooked in a Jamaican curry sauce and serve with rice and peas.

Jerk porc, poultry or fish
A technique thought to originate with the Maroons, descendents of slaves who escaped from their Spanish masters to the island's most remote mountain areas, "jerked" meat is marinated for hours in an incendiary mixture of scallions, onions, thyme, Jamaican pimento, cinnamon, nutmeg, peppers, a special blend of fruit juices and more... then cooked over an outdoor pit lined with pimento wood or grilled simply over an open flame. The low heat allows the meat to cook slowly, so it loses little of its natural juices while becoming saturated with the flavor of the wood. You will love it!

Jerk Shrimp pon a stick (kabob)
Large jumbo shrimp marinated in a tangy and spicy Jerk sauce, grilled with peppers, okras and tomatoes.

Ackee and Saltfish
Jamaica's national dish featuring the mild ackee fruit teamed with dried salted cod fish. The tasty combination is cooked up in a savory sauce of tomatoes, onions, peppers and spices.

Callaloo and Saltfish
Jamaican greens and dried salted cod is cooked up in a savory sauce of tomatoes, onions, peppers and spices.

Steamed Callaloo
A Jamaican staple. Callaloo is a Jamaican greens like spinach, with a slightly firmer texture. The greens are sautéed with peppers and onions then simmered in a mixture of aromatic herbs and spices.

Ackee
Jamaica's national fruit and dish.

Bammie
a toasted flat cake eaten with fried fish.

Brown Stew Chicken
Also known as Fricasseed Chicken is actually the most popular way of cooking chicken in Jamaica. Chicken is marinated with a wild combination of herbs and spices then fried to a golden brown. Additional peppers vegetables and spices are then added and cooked to create the rich gravy (stew).

Curry Chicken
Chicken marinated in spicy Jamaican curry along with a host of other herbs spices and vegetables then cooked. This dish is typically served with steamed white rice.

Curry Goat
A party is not a party if curried goat is not served; that's Jamaican! Curried goat, a popular island dish often served with rice and peas, dates to 1845 when -- following the abolition of slavery -- plantation owners began importing indentured laborers from India and later China; the new arrivals quickly added their own contributions, including curry and other spices, to the island's expanding palette of exotic flavors.

To prepare curry goat, cut meat into small cubes and marinate in spicy Jamaican curry, thyme and other herbs and spices. Cook until the meat just fall off the bones.

Mackerel Run-Down
whole salted mackerel simmered in coconut milk, tomatoes, onions, scallions, thyme and hot peppers, and served with boiled green bananas or yams

Pepper pot soup

Ox Tail
A Jamaican favorite! Marinated and cooked in a sauce of herbs and spices then simmered in a tasty blend of buttered beans to create the best tasting gravy you ever had.

Rice and peas
Red beans and rice with a Jamaican twist.

Wash
Jamaican lemonade made with Brown sugar and lime.

Fish Tea
A Soup made of fish and vegetables.

 
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