Jamaican Rice and Peas Recipe
Jamaican rice and peas: boil the red peas first, cook the rice in that water with coconut milk, thyme and pimento.
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Jamaican Pepperpot Soup Recipe
Jamaican pepperpot soup: thick green callaloo with salted beef, pigtail, yam and coconut milk. Not the Guyanese cassareep stew.
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Jamaican Bammy Recipe
Jamaican bammy: cassava wrung dry and cooked flat, then soaked in coconut milk and fried golden. The oldest bread in the region.
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Jamaican Festival Recipe
Jamaican festival: sweet cornmeal and flour dough rolled long and fried crisp outside, soft inside. The standard side for jerk and escovitch.
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Jamaican Stew Peas Recipe
Jamaican stew peas: red kidney beans, salted pigtail and coconut milk simmered thick, with hand-rolled spinners doing the thickening.
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Jamaican Escovitch Fish Recipe
Jamaican escovitch fish: whole snapper fried crisp under a hot vinegar pickle of onion, carrot, sweet pepper, Scotch bonnet and pimento.
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Jamaican Brown Stew Chicken Recipe
Jamaican brown stew chicken: citrus wash, overnight seasoning, hard browning. Why Jamaican cooks disagree about how to get the color.
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Jamaican Beef Patty Recipe
Jamaican beef patties with a laminated turmeric crust and a blended, juicy filling. The temperature rules that make the crust flake.
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Jamaican Oxtail Recipe
Jamaican oxtail braised to falling off the bone in brown gravy with butter beans. Stove and oven methods, both traditional.
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Jamaican Ackee and Saltfish Recipe
Jamaica's national dish, made right: three-boil saltfish, ripe ackee folded not stirred, and the safety rule that comes with the fruit.
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Jamaican Jerk Chicken Recipe
Jamaican jerk chicken marinated in Scotch bonnet and pimento, then smoked over pimento wood. Marinade, fire, and the Maroon history.
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Jamaican Coco Bread Recipe
Jamaican coco bread: soft coconut-milk dough folded into a half-moon so it bakes in two layers and opens around a beef patty.
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Jamaican Jerk Pork Recipe
Jamaican jerk pork: pimento seasoning worked into the cuts, marinated overnight, cooked slow until the bone pulls free. Oven and grill routes.
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Jamaican Fried Dumplings Recipe
Jamaican fried dumplings: plain flour dough fried over steady medium heat until golden and light. Why they are not festival.
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Jamaican Roti Recipe
Jamaican roti: a plain dough layered with oil, cooked on a hot pan in minutes and clapped to release the folds that catch curry.
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Jamaican Gizzada Recipe
Jamaican gizzada, or pinch mi side: freshly grated coconut cooked in dark brown sugar and spice, in a thin pastry shell with a pinched wall.
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Jamaican Toto Recipe
Jamaican toto: a dense, moist coconut cake spiced with nutmeg, traditionally baked from the coconut left after squeezing milk for rice and peas.
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Jamaican Cornmeal Porridge Recipe
Jamaican cornmeal porridge: spice the water first, slurry the cornmeal so it never lumps, and cook it long enough for the grains to soften.
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Jamaican Solomon Gundy Recipe
Jamaican solomon gundy: smoked red herring boiled out and chopped fine with onion, pepper and pimento, sealed under oil and eaten on water crackers.
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Jamaican Mannish Water Recipe
Jamaican mannish water: goat head, feet and tripe boiled thin with yam, coco and green banana, finished with spinners and Scotch bonnet.
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Jamaican Rundown Recipe
Jamaican rundown: coconut milk boiled until it breaks into oil and custard, with salt mackerel simmered in it. The reduction is the whole dish.
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Jamaican Steamed Fish Recipe
Jamaican steamed fish: whole snapper cooked under a lid with coconut milk, pumpkin and okra until the liquid turns to gravy.
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