Jamaican Foods

2. Known as avocado to everyone else except Jamaicans!
5. This food is a member of the squash family. It is considered a must in beef soup, is used as a garnish for escoveitched fish and is essential for pickles.
6. Its main ingredient is salted mackerel which is simmered in coconut milk.
8. less common name for ‘Blue Drawers’.
11. In Jamaica, it is not Christmas if we do not have bottles of this red drink brewed with rum and ginger.
12. Jamaica’s national fruit
14. This popular spice is grated in eggnogs, cake batters, custards, buns, and porridge.
16. This is citrus fruit made by Jamaican agronomist, is a cross between an orange and a grapefruit.

1. Bombay, East Indian, Julie, Stringy, Rusty.
3. cake These fried delicacies go well with a serving of callaloo, or ackee and salt fish.
4. This large fruit has a spiky rough green skin and a cottony white pulp. Its flavour is rather a mix of sour and sweet and makes a delicious ice-cream.
7. This gingery, flat round cake, makes a nice snack when accompanied with a slice of pear (avocado).
9. It makes one of the most bitter teas you will ever taste. This tea is sometimes used to get rid of sugar in body, after you have eaten a lot of food high in sugar.
10. Captain Bligh brought this fruit, which can be cooked, roast or fry, on his second voyage to Jamaica in 1793.
13. This spice is used to give curry and brown stewed meat dishes their iconic flavour. Accidentally biting into a piece isn’t a pleasure at all. This spice is also used as a folk medicine and is also used to make one of the most common Jamaican teas.
15. More popular in Jamaica than lemons and is the key ingredient in that nice cool refreshing Jamaican-style lemonade or wash.