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Ackee and Codfish
This dish is regarded as Jamaica's national dish. The fleshy, yellow portion of a seed pod from the ackee fruit is cooked with cod fish. Cooked ackee resembles scrambled egg. It is normally served with roasted breadfruit, boiled bananas or fried dumplings in Jamaica.

Callaloo
This plant is closely related to collard green and spinach. It is consumed as green hot cooked vegetables and makes an ideal accompaniment for pickled mackerel, and cod fish. This dish is normally served with boiled green bananas. It can be used in soups. Nowadays it can be blended and taken as a drink.

Pepper pot soup
Similar to spinach soup, this soup contains Callaloo instead of the spinach. It is quite spicy with plenty of ground provision. When cooked in a broth of salt beef, it becomes tastier. Jamaicans prefer it seasoned with scotch bonnet peppers.

Escoveitch Fish.
This dish consists of fresh fish fried with a sauce of vinegar, sliced onions and hot peppers poured on the fish.

Jerk Pork or Chicken
A Jamaican dish native of Boston Beach near Port Antonio Jamaica, it consists of meat seasoned with peppers, other Jamaicans spices, and pimento leaves. This mixture is then cooked slowly on an open fire of pimento wood.

Jamaican Pumpkin soup
A thick creamy soup, made from the local pumpkin, it tastes very nice. It is customary for many Jamaicans to enjoy their pumpkin soup Friday or Saturday evenings.

Red Peas soup
Another Jamaican popular soup, it is made from red beans and is normally cooked in broth of pig’s tail or corned beef. It is spicy and is available in plenty on the streets.

Festival
A dumpling that is normally cylindrical in shape, it is basically made from cornmeal. Sugar, flour, spices milk or water, are added and then fried till they turn golden brown. It is an excellent accompaniment for jerk meats and fried fish.

Roasted yam
This dish contains roasted special yams like the yellow yam, white yam or Negro or Lucea yam and served along with roasted cod fish or rundung or ackee and codfish.

Peanut Porridge
This is one of the latest food craze in Jamaica. Peanut porridge is boiled along the street sidelines and many people think their day is complete when they eat this dish. It is an excellent energy food and remains for hours.

Coconut Rundung
It is a dish made from coconut milk boiled in custard, with mackerel, codfish, or vegetables included. Sometimes there are seasonings added.

Curried Goat
One of Jamaica's traditional dishes, it is an apt choice for any special or memorable events. This dish serves to complete any occasion. It is normally served with plain white rice but nowadays it is served with rice and peas as another accompaniment.

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