Famous Recipes: Luscious Caribbean Recipes
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As you take a trip through the Caribbean you might probably get to taste some 'Soul food' dishes. Now let me open the secret behind the Caribbean soul foods. The three ancient tribes Taino, Carib along with Arawak that belongs to India, traveled the Caribbean and introduced the diet full of vegetables and fruits. These nutritive foodstuffs became the every day meal of Caribbean natives and they termed them 'soul foods'. Delicacies made up of these vegetables and fruits give travelers a true essence of Caribbean recipes.
However, meat dishes and fish preparations were also eaten by the Taino tribe in the meal containing soul foods. They use to cook meats in large vessels made up of clay. The amalgamation of flavoring agents and herbs with the meats offer a divine eating experience. Jamaica, a distinguished Island of Caribbean, boasts of an exclusive range of Caribbean styles of cooking and ingredients.
After Tainos, came the Arawaks who introduced one of the most popular method of cooking meats and vegetables. They used wood to cook meat and other dishes on low fire. When meats were cooked directly on the wood, the murky flavor of the wood infused in the meat and makes the delectable dishes. Caribbean food lovers immensly like this flavor and relish Craibbean recipes cooked with this method. The flavor and fragrance straightforwardly reaches to the soul. You must be surprised that this is the beginning of the popular cooking method called 'barbeque' that was famous at that time as 'barbacoa'.
One of the most entertaining and enthralling feature of Caribbean recipes is the variety of food and flavorings. Caribbean is a cluster of religions and various traditions, consequently all of them has their own styles of cooking that can be modified according to individual palate. The most influencing tribe was the Carib who are credited for introducing the spices and peppers to the Caribbean soil. The 'soul food' brought by them is still the highlights of the superb Caribbean recipes. Soul recipes mainly contain Okra, yam, plantain, salted cod, banana, mangoes and sweet potato to name a few.
Most of the Caribbean soul food recipes are derived from Indian food culture, but Chinese and Spaniards are also credited for their contribution to the Caribbean recipes that still rules the Caribbean menu.
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For further details on Great Caribbean recipes please look at Caribbean Recipes. You may also take a look at some fantastic Jamaican recipes by clicking Jamaican Recipe.
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By :
kevin nairvij
Submitted
2010-10-25 06:02:03 |
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