List of Jamaican dishes and foods

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 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.

A plate of jerk chicken, with rice, plantains, carrots and green beans

Jamaican dishes and foods

Ackee and saltfish, national dish of Jamaica
Cassava cakes (Bammies)
Callaloo originated in West Africa
Coco bread, sandwiching a Jamaican patty
Jamaican patties served with Red Stripe beer
Run down is a stew dish in Jamaican cuisine and Tobago cuisine

Fruits

Guinep fruit

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
  • Grater cake
  • 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

Soups

Soups play an important role in the Jamaican diet, not only as appetizers, but also as main lunch and dinner dishes because they are filling on their own with tubers/staples (such as yam, sweet potato, white potato, breadfruit, Jamaican boiled dumplings, dasheen and coco), vegetables (such as carrot, okra and cho-cho/chayote) and meat. Many Jamaican families enjoy soup for lunch and dinner. Soup is often had alone, but may be served with hard dough bread or Jamaican water crackers. Soups are almost always served piping hot.

  • Chicken Foot Soup
  • Conch or Janga (crayfish) Soup
  • Cow cod soup
  • Fish Tea
  • Gungo Peas Soup, made with pigeon peas (locally known as gungo peas)
  • Mannish Water (Goat soup)
  • Pepperpot Soup
  • Red Peas Soup, made with kidney beans, pigstail, beef or chicken, tubers such as coco, yam, potato & sweet potato, vegetables and spices
  • Pumpkin Soup, made with butternut squash, chicken, chayote (locally known as chocho), and various other vegetables depending on the region.

Beverages

A mug of Horlicks malted milk
Milo instant chocolate malt powder

Hot beverages

Most Jamaicans begin the morning with a hot drink, either alone, with Jamaican tough water crackers, bread or along with a breakfast dish.

  • Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
  • Chocolate tea (Hot chocolate), traditionally made from chocolate balls
  • Herbal Tea, can be made using packaged tea bags, but is almost always brewed from fresh local herbs. The commonly consumed ones include ginger, and mint. These are the most popular types of beverages served with breakfast dishes.
  • Horlicks
  • LASCO Food Drinks, instant powdered drinks made by adding hot or cold water, (Lasco Jamaica) with flavours such as vanilla, creamy malt, peanut punch, carrot, almond, etc.
  • Milo

Juices and cold beverages

Juices often include local fruits such as pineapple, Otaheite apple, june plum (Tahitian apple), acerola cherry, mango and guava, or combine them to make medleys such as guava-carrot and fruit punch.

  • Brown Streak beer - a popular beer brand in Jamaica
  • Ginger beer
  • Jamaica Nog - a popular exotic cocktail with bell peppers, olives, cheese, and potatoes blended with egg puree, best to drink raw during Pancake Tuesday
  • Jamaican rum
  • Red Stripe beer
  • Roots wine
  • Sorrel (drink), made from Jamaican sorrel (roselle), is enjoyed all year round but also drunk around Christmas holidays as a Christmas drink. White rum or wine is often added at Christmas.

See also

References

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