Grenada

🇯🇲Jamaica

Mauby

Antiguan Mauby

A Dominican drink of mauby bark, water, sugar, and spices, fermented slightly and served cold. A bitter-sweet, earthy, refreshing Caribbean beverage.

🇬🇩Grenada

Oil Down

Breadfruit cooked down in coconut milk with salted meat, dumplings and callaloo until the milk is absorbed and oil separates.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Pelau

Rice browned in caramelised sugar with chicken or beef, pigeon peas, coconut milk and pumpkin, cooked down in one pot.

🇭🇹Haiti

Pikliz

Shredded cabbage, carrot, onion and scotch bonnet packed into a jar of vinegar with cloves and left to sharpen for days.

🇨🇺Cuba

Plátanos Maduros

A Cuban fried sweet ripe plantains, caramelized and soft, a daily and essential side

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Rice with Pigeon Peas

Arroz con gandules

Medium-grain rice cooked in one pot with pigeon peas, sofrito, cured pork, olives and annatto until a toasted crust forms on the bottom.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Roast Breadfruit

Whole breadfruit roasted directly on coals or a fire until the skin is black, then peeled and sliced as a starch alongside ackee or fish.

🇬🇩Grenada

Roast Breadfruit and Herring

Roasted breadfruit paired with salt herring, a classic Grenadian combination: charred, smoky breadfruit with sautéed herring, onions, and peppers. Grenadian roast breadfruit and herring is a plated fish meal, not a raw ingredient.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Rum Punch

Rum, lime, sugar syrup, fruit juice and grenadine mixed to the old rhyme — one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Rundown

Run dun

Coconut milk boiled down until the oil separates and it 'runs down' into a curd, then cooked with salted mackerel or fresh fish, onion and pepper. Cayman Fish Rundown cooks coconut milk down with fish and ground provisions; the Jamaican canonical also carries its mackerel preparation.

🇬🇾Guyana

Sada Roti

Plain unleavened flatbread cooked on a tawa and clapped between the hands to soften, eaten with chokas at breakfast.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Sorrel

Dried hibiscus calyces steeped with ginger, pimento and cloves, sweetened and often spiked with rum — drunk at Christmas.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Souse

Pig's trotters or chicken feet boiled, then pickled cold in lime juice, cucumber, onion, pepper and shadon beni.

🇲🇶Martinique

Sweet Potato Pudding

Grated sweet potato baked slowly with coconut milk, brown sugar, nutmeg and raisins into a dense dark pudding with a custardy top.

🇬🇩Grenada

Tania Log

A Grenadian boiled pudding of grated tania (dasheen) and coconut, seasoned and wrapped in leaves, similar to a savory log. Tania log is a leaf-wrapped Grenadian dumpling or pudding log commonly served with saltfish.