African Foods - A Brief Commentary On Caribbean Cooking And Its Origin
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Caribbean recipes represents the style of African, French, American Indian, East Indian, Chinese, Dutch, Indian and Spanish food cultures. Migrants introduced this food culture to the island. Later these migrants developed their own food culture , which have today assumed the status of regional foods.
Caribbean's are fond of rice and they prepare various dishes using it. A rice preparation is incomplete without a tasty accompaniment. Generally various types of sauces and beans are savored along with the rice. Although rice is a staple diet of the island, still the method of preparation varies from region to another. Peas, beans and coconut are usually used for seasoning the rice. The brown and yellow colored rice is mainly served as the side dish.
Caribbean cuisine is also famous for its fare of meat recipes Goat meat is savored throughout the island with much fancy and love. Jamicans, Guadeloupean, Haitian and other French Caribbean populations enjoy goat meats. Caribbean goat meat stew has been chosen as the official national dish of Montserrat. This tomato based goat meat stew is also the signature dish of St. Kitts and Nevis. Other than goat meat, dumplings (droppers), breadfruit and green pawpaw or papaya are the other substances used in the preparation of the stew. Similarly Callaloo is a throughout vegetarian recipe, which is prepared and savored throughout the island. Vegetables like okra and other greens are used in the preparation of the dish. Anglophone Caribbean, or Cook-Up or Pelau is another popular meat dish which is enjoyed throughout the Caribbean Islands. The fleshy ingredients like beef, pigeon peas, chicken, saltfish, or vegetables are used in preparation of the dish. Other than that goat curry and chicken is popular throughout the Anglophone Caribbean islands.
Caribbean's are fond of sharp and spicy flavors and most of the dishes are tilted towards either of these flavors. Caribbean's largely use the left over meats to prepare several dishes and they spike it with sharp spices to make them tasty and appeasing. Caribbean's use allspice, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and lime to flavorise their food preparations.
Caribbean's are also fond of seafood and various dishes are prepared using conch, shark, and lobster. A fried shark sandwich is served throughout Trinidad and Tobago, other than that cascadura fish and crab preparations are also famous throughout the island. Similarly conch preparation is popular throughout Belize, Haiti, and Bahamas. Deep fried fritters is considered to be the signature dish of these islands.. The batter for the fritter is prepared by combining minced meat, dough and seasonings. |
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For further information on some fantastic African recipes please look at African Recipe. You may also take a look at Pakistani recipes by visiting pakistani recipes
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By :
kevin nairvij
Submitted
2010-12-09 09:37:33 |
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