| Whether you are from a West Indian background, | | | | them over a small fire, but today they are |
| or if you are simply looking for a variety of tasty | | | | generally cooked on a barbecue-type grill, or failing |
| new dishes that you can prepare at home, | | | | that can even be baked in a normal kitchen oven. |
| perhaps it is time to consider learning to cook | | | | Other popular Jamaican dishes include curried goat |
| some Jamaican recipes. Jamaican food can be | | | | (goat meal cooked with spices), fried dumplings, |
| wonderfully tasty, and if you love spicy food, it | | | | fried plantains (plantains are a type of banana), |
| may be ideal for you. Additionally, you will discover | | | | and of course rice and peas (which is seasoned |
| that Jamaican food includes a number of | | | | rice with coconut milk, flavorings, and beans or |
| ingredients that you may have previously eaten, | | | | peas). Additionally the national dish of the country |
| and thus can make us a nice change when you | | | | is ackee (also sometimes spelled "akee") and |
| are you feeling like eating something different. | | | | saltfish (cod). Rehydrated salted cod is |
| For non-Jamaicans, perhaps the famous dish from | | | | sautéed with boiled ackee (ackee is a |
| the island, is "jerk". This is based around a style of | | | | type of fruit) and a variety of other vegetables |
| cooking native to Jamaica in which meat | | | | and spices. |
| (traditionally goat or pork, but chicken and other | | | | In this article, I have only touched the surface. |
| meats are often used nowadays as well) is | | | | There are many other popular Jamaican dishes |
| rubbed with a marinade containing a combination | | | | which I expect you will enjoy trying - including |
| of spices known as "jerk spice" and then cooked. | | | | meat, seafood and vegetarian dishes, as well as |
| Historically, jerk dishes were prepared by smoking | | | | soups and Rastafarian dishes. |