Guyana
Metemgee
Ground provisions — cassava, eddoe, plantain, yam — boiled down in coconut milk with salt fish or meat and topped with flour dumplings called duff.
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Mithai
Strips of enriched dough fried and tossed in sugar syrup or a hard sugar crust, sold by the bag.
Trinidad and Tobago
Peanut Punch
Peanut butter blended with milk, condensed milk, nutmeg and bitters into a thick, sweet drink.
Guyana
Pera
Milk powder cooked down with sugar and cardamom into a dense fudge shaped into small flattened rounds.
Guyana
Pholourie
Phulourie
Split-pea batter dropped in spoonfuls into hot oil and fried into soft balls, eaten with tamarind or mango chutney.
Guyana
Pine Tart
A triangular pastry sealed around crushed pineapple cooked down with sugar and spice.
Guyana
Piwari
Piwari is an Amerindian cassava beer fermented from baked cassava bread and a community culture, shared from calabashes at gatherings.
Guyana
Plait Bread
A soft, faintly sweet white loaf braided before baking, the bread eaten with pepperpot at Christmas.
Guyana
Prasad
Semolina toasted in ghee with sugar, raisins and cardamom until it clumps, distributed after Hindu prayers.
Guyana
Red cake
Salara
A soft bread dough rolled around bright red sweetened coconut and baked, sliced to show the spiral.
Guyana
Roti
A soft, thin Guyanese flatbread served with curried chicken, goat or vegetables in Indo-Guyanese homes and roti shops.
Guyana
Sada Roti
Plain unleavened flatbread cooked on a tawa and clapped between the hands to soften, eaten with chokas at breakfast.
Guyana
Sawine
Fine vermicelli toasted and simmered in sweet spiced milk with raisins and almonds, made for Eid.
Guyana
Seven Curry
An Indo-Guyanese Hindu feast of seven different vegetarian curries—pumpkin, callaloo, eggplant, eddoe, breadnut, mango, potato and chickpea—served on a water lily leaf with rice and puri.
Trinidad and Tobago
Sorrel
Hibiscus calyces steeped with clove, cinnamon, ginger and orange peel, sweetened, and often spiked with rum at Christmas.
Guyana
Sorrel Drink
Guyanese sorrel drink steeps hibiscus calyces with ginger, clove and cinnamon, then is strained and sweetened.
Guyana
Tennis Roll
A small, slightly sweet enriched bun sold hot from the bakery, split and filled with cheese or eaten plain with tea.
Guyana
Tomato Choka
Tomato choka chars tomatoes over flame, then mashes them with roasted garlic, onion, chili and oil into a smoky relish.
Guyana
Tuma Pot
Tuma pot is an Amerindian stew of fish or legally sourced bush meat cooked in cassava water with peppers, served with cassava bread or farine.
Guyana
Wiri Wiri Pepper
Wiri wiri
A cherry-sized round red chilli grown almost only in Guyana, aromatic and very hot, used whole in souse, pepper sauce and curry.