Comida Caribeña

Caribbean Food

Caribbean cuisine absorbed aspects from English, Spanish, and Indian food. These countries employed a plantation system in the Caribbean to cultivate sugar. Countries included in the Caribbean are Trinidad, Tobago, Aruba, Jamaica, Cuba, Bahamas and more. Caribbean dishes are often colorful due to the array of tropical fruits and vegetables growing in the area, as well as sweet due to the abundance of sugar from the sugar plantations and enslavement. This cuisine is a mixture of African, Creole, Cajun, Amerindian, European, East Indian/South Asian, Persian, Arab, Chinese and Javanese/Indonesian cuisine. Unlike Italy and India, there is no structure to a traditional meal. Caribbean foods are typically seafood or meat with distinctive spices found in the area. When you think of the Caribbean you think of someone on the street cooking jerk chicken right in front of your eyes, but there is so much more than that. Traditional Caribbean cuisine is hard to find outside of the islands.  

Traditional Foods:

• Jamaican Meat Pie- Like a turnover but filled with meat and spices.

• Trinidad Chicken Roti- Curry stew meat and potato folded tightly within a Dhalpuri or Paratha roti, A layered tortilla originating in India.

• Key Lime Pie

• Barbecued Ribs served with guava sauce- Guava sauce contains water, guava paste, vinegar, rum, tomato paste, lemon juice, onion, ginger, soy sauce, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, and scotch bonnet pepper simmered in a saucepan. 

• Chicken Kabobs

• Jerk Chicken

Sources:
“CaribbeanPot.com | The Best Caribbean Recipes Online!” CaribbeanPot.com | The Best Caribbean Recipes Online!, caribbeanpot.com/.​
“History of the Caribbean.” Caribbean History | Caribya!, 
caribya.com/caribbean/history/.​

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