Jamaican cuisine is "involved" in English, African, Spanish, Indian, Chinese culinary traditions, and is based on the use of pork, poultry, vegetables, seafood and various spices.
National cuisine of Jamaica
If we talk about everyday Jamaican food, then it is based on thick broths on meat or fish, which are poured over vegetables or rice. To give dishes a spicy and spicy taste, ginger, cardamom, thyme, nutmeg, curry, and Jamaican pepper are often added to them.
Vacationers on the island are advised to try Jamaican dishes in the form of baked and fried bananas; beef with rice; fried pineapple with sauce; marinated seafood fried with onions and peppers; a stew made from sweet potatoes, cassava, corn, yucca, and other tropical fruits and vegetables. If you wish, you can taste Rastafarian food - dairy products, salt, meat and alcohol are not used for its preparation: it is based on grains, fruits and vegetables, freshly squeezed juices.
Popular Jamaican dishes:
- “Riceandbeans” (a rice and red bean dish made with coconut milk, peppers and onions);
- "Jerkchicken" (grilled chicken, but pre-marinated in a spicy and aromatic sauce);
- “Currygoat” (kid fried in olive oil, pre-marinated in lemon juice with spices);
- “Patties” (pies with meat, vegetables, cheese, seafood or fish filling);
- “Calallosoup” (a rich soup based on a plant like tops or spinach);
- “Manishwater” (soup from the head, giblets and hooves of a goat, boiled with yams, potatoes, carrots, bananas and hot spices).
Where to try Jamaican cuisine?
If in the restaurants that you decide to visit, the tip will not be included in the bill, then you can leave a monetary reward in case of good service in the amount of 10-15% of the order amount.
Is your goal to satisfy your hunger with national dishes? In Kingston, check out “Strawberry Hill” (the establishment serves Jamaican dishes in the form of smoked chicken, bammy cakes, lamb curry), in Negril - in “Ras Rody's Roadside Organic” (an institution will appeal to lovers of organic food - they prepare dishes in Rastafarian style, namely rice and beans, vegetarian curry, soup with local vegetables).
Cooking classes in Jamaica
Gourmet tourists will be able to go on a culinary tour of Jamaican restaurants: for example, they will visit the “Pimento Porch Clubhouse” (there will be a lecture on Jamaican cuisine and a lesson on cooking jerk) and “One One Coco” (here the participants of the gastro tour will be taught how to cook roast goat head and legs with yams and bananas, and mix tropical cocktails properly).
Arrival to Jamaica can be timed to coincide with the Festival of Wine and Food (September, Kingston), the Festival “Caribbean Rum” (autumn, Montego Bay), where participants are offered to taste different types of rum and products prepared on the basis of this drink, as well as the Festival Jamaican coffee (September-October, Kingston).
