Favourite Jamaican Dishes

ackeebee
ackeebee Posts: 1,042 Member
edited October 5 in Social Groups
come on guys, tell us your what your favourite jamaican dishes are and also feel free to share some "low fat" recipes :-)

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  • chrisja
    chrisja Posts: 380 Member
    I love rice and peas, with either fish, chicken or oxtail. Love white rice and curry chicken or curry goat. Ackee and saltfish....almost everything really...lol.

    Is there such a thing as a Jamaican low calorie dish?....lol
  • ackeebee
    ackeebee Posts: 1,042 Member
    I love me some stew peas and white rice, cow foot, curry goat, even salt mackerel and banana lol
  • Stew peas (has to have pig's tail), oxtail, fried plantain, plantain tarts....ackee and saltfish with jonnycakes (sp).
  • Kaybee1011
    Kaybee1011 Posts: 21 Member
    Bulla cake and cheese too guys.................I love everything Jamaican..........except rundung......yuck
  • msenior
    msenior Posts: 171 Member
    Lawd a massy:
    Roast breadfruit and ackee and saltfish.
    Fried dumpling and tin mackerel
    Curry chicken and green banana, plantain and pear.
    Rice and peas and brown stew chicken.
    Stew peas and rice
    Rundung and green banana with a piece of white yam.
    Red peas soup.

    i better stop now, its too late to raid the kitchen
  • chrisja
    chrisja Posts: 380 Member
    How could I have forgotten the stew peas and white rice....and the fried dumpling with tin mackerel or beef liver....saltfish fritters....and the list goes on and on.
  • ackeebee
    ackeebee Posts: 1,042 Member
    lol, now you guys are making me hungry. it seems like i am the only one on here who don't eat ackee and saltfish. hopefully one day i will be brave enough to try it
  • jamaka1
    jamaka1 Posts: 412 Member
    I am hungry2, anyway I only eat fish now but ackee & saltfish anytime with some calaloo
  • maxxmore
    maxxmore Posts: 25 Member
    My mom made some green bananas and ackee and bacon (didnt have any saltfish) and it was sooooo good.... do any of you remember eating green bananas and butter only.
  • msenior
    msenior Posts: 171 Member
    I had loads of dumpling and butter, especially when it rains. You all know when it rains in Jamaica, it goes on for days non stop.
  • chrisja
    chrisja Posts: 380 Member
    Lol...never had it personally but I know of people who have had banana and butter, yam and butter and especially dumpling and butter.
  • ackeebee
    ackeebee Posts: 1,042 Member
    roast yellow yam and saltfish.....nice :-)
  • somehow "low fat" doesnt go with Jamaican food ....lol
  • How could I have forgotten the stew peas and white rice....and the fried dumpling with tin mackerel or beef liver....saltfish fritters....and the list goes on and on.

    yes... yess and yesss :-D
  • ackeebee
    ackeebee Posts: 1,042 Member
    oh, devon stout ice cream :-)
  • chrisja
    chrisja Posts: 380 Member
    All Devon House ice cream for that matter...lol
  • Devon House was ranked 4th in the world for best ice cream parlours to go to :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

    http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/top-10/ice-cream-parlors/
  • Kaybee1011
    Kaybee1011 Posts: 21 Member
    I may be the one to do all the voting for that......I want some right now.:laugh:
  • jamaka1
    jamaka1 Posts: 412 Member
    OMG........ u guys are making me crazy hungry. I feel so bless to come from such humble beginnings bc even when things get rough we know how to survive even if it's with some dumpling & butter.... i remember the days when we use to run "boat" & mek some cartwheels, u bellyful wid some water. I thank God for those days even though i did not appreciate them then bc now i can survive any tide. Have a gr8 THANKSGIVING every1
  • ackeebee
    ackeebee Posts: 1,042 Member
    OMG........ u guys are making me crazy hungry. I feel so bless to come from such humble beginnings bc even when things get rough we know how to survive even if it's with some dumpling & butter.... i remember the days when we use to run "boat" & mek some cartwheels, u bellyful wid some water. I thank God for those days even though i did not appreciate them then bc now i can survive any tide. Have a gr8 THANKSGIVING every1

    lol, your cartwheel comment made me buss out laugh at my desk lol.

    we hated some of the things we went through as kids but now looking back, it was good for us. i was probably eating more healthily back then than now. all those fruit and veg you could pick in your backyard or your neighbours lol and never go hungry. it might not have been what you wanted at the time, but it had its benefits. now everyone going on about 5 a day, we were eating about 10 a day back then lol.

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING !

    It's work as normal here in the UK
  • chrisja
    chrisja Posts: 380 Member
    Remember the days when those of us from country got up in the morning, did our chores then you were free for the day to play or do whatever...so nuff dolly-house outside, chinese skip, shooting and roasting birds etc...and we filled our bellies all day with whichever tangerine, orange, mango, grapefruit, starapple, roseapple, naseberry, cashew etc we could find in our roamings...and like ackeebee said, it didn't matter if it was on the neighbour's property. We were all kids who were doing the same thing. Just make sure you get home and bathe in time for dinner..........and dinner was some nice dry yellow or white/ saaf yam, coco, dumpling with whichever saalting (lol) was on the menu that day. Those were the good old days...never watched what we ate but obviously what we were eating then was much better for out bodies.
  • ackeebee
    ackeebee Posts: 1,042 Member
    lol, you got that right. and we were not fat then either so we must have been doing something right :-)
  • Kesh2DaWorld
    Kesh2DaWorld Posts: 4 Member
    There are so many Jamaican dishes that I love. And, even thought I don’t eat beef if oxtail dey pon de table the gravy will be on my rice and peas! My only problem is when I am in JA I can eat all that stuff to my hearts content. But, as soon as mi reach back a foreign one taste of the same food will make me gain 30 ponds. Bowy foreign life hard!
  • chrisja
    chrisja Posts: 380 Member
    Lol @ QBKesh....spoken like a true Jamaican, where the gravy doesn't necessarily match the meat we are eating...lol
  • Kaybee1011
    Kaybee1011 Posts: 21 Member
    Yeah.........nothing like rice and peas with fry chicken and curry or oxtail gravy.......mmmmmmmmm
  • ackeebee
    ackeebee Posts: 1,042 Member
    It's been ages since I had fry chicken...yum yum
  • JamCubeChi
    JamCubeChi Posts: 378 Member
    OMG-I can't even BEGIN to name a favorite-Anything curry, ox tail, dahl; red peas soup, jerk anything.........
    that's the problem why I'm here! I did WW for a while but had a hard time encorporating "our foods" into the program. Actually checked MFP's data base 2 days ago for home made rice & peas and when I saw the calorie count, had to opt for the white rice-bummer!!!
  • Angel1066
    Angel1066 Posts: 816 Member
    There is too many to mention but of course ackee and salt fish, pattie any kind and jerk chicken. Damn I'm hungry now
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