Jamaican Recipes

Recipes for Jamaican meals

Lots of Jamaican recipes to bring a taste of the island to your home. Below are some video recipes for well know Jamaican dishes such as jerk chicken or beef patties. Recipes for other Jamaican favourites such as escoveitched fish and ackee and saltfish are also included.

Jamaican main course recipes

Jerk Chicken Jerk Pork Patties

Curried Goat Stew Peas Curry Chicken

Meatloaf Brown Stew Fish

Jamaican Breakfast Recipes

Ackee and Saltfish Mackerel Run Down Escoveitched Fish

Saltfish Fritters Callaloo and Codfish Okra and Saltfish

Jamaican Soup Recipes

Red Pea Soup Fish Tea Cream of Pumpkin Soup

Jamaican Dessert Recipes

Gizzada

Recipes for Accompaniments to Jamaican Dishes

No Jamaican meal would be complete without a delicious side dish. Dumplings, bananas, potatoes and yam go well with Jamaican breakfast dishes, festival and bammy are a perfect accompaniment to fish and rice and peas goes well with any main course. Follow the recipes below to make your Jamaican meal complete.

Rice and Peas Festival Bammy

Coco Bread

Jamaican food recipes

Yam, Dumplings, Green Bananas and Irish Potato are collectively known as "food" and make a hearty accompaniment to any Jamaican breakfast.

Green Bananas Irish Potato Dumpling

Yam

Ingredients

Jamaican recipes often feature ingredients which are not commonly used outside of the Caribbean. Scotch bonnet peppers and ackees are prime examples. Some of the more distinctive ingredients of Jamaican recipes are described below.