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Jamaica
nutty buddy
A ice cream snack packaged in a hard cone, with the crown covered in chocolate and chopped nuts.
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Jamaica
nyammins
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Trinidad & Tobago
nyanmaments
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Antigua & Barbuda
Belize
Dominica
Guyana
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
St. Vincent
okro
A green fruit bearing on plants up to 6 ft tall. The fruit are fingerlike with a pentagonal cross section and taper to a long point. It is often cooked by boiling or steaming and in some areas is regarded as an aphrodisiac.
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Trinidad & Tobago
orinoco
A type of plaintain.
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Jamaica
ortanique
A Jamaican hybrid of the tanderine/mandarin orange and orange. The tangor is valued for it's sweet pleasant taste.
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Jamaica
otaheite apple
Otaheite apple; Pear shaped fruit with red skin and white flesh. Typically, they contain a single large seed. However, they may occasionally be seedless. The fruit is sweet and is usually eaten raw or used to make drinks.
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Haiti
pacay
Inga feuilleei is a legume that produces a podded fruit with a smooth textured, sweet, edible white pulp surrounding the seeds.
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Trinidad & Tobago
padoo
Inga feuilleei is a legume that produces a podded fruit with a smooth textured, sweet, edible white pulp surrounding the seeds.
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Trinidad & Tobago
pak choy
Bok Choy
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Belize
panades
Traditional Belizean dish made with corn maize and shark meat
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Puerto Rico
panapen
Tree and fruit native to the Pacific Islands and Malaysia that was brought to the West Indies in the 18th century. The fruit is large with a rough green skin with small hexagonal markings. Some varieties have a spiky exterior. The flesh is white, cream coloured or yellow and has a high starch content. It is eaten boiled, roasted, or fried as a staple food.
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Bahamas
pancake
A fried bread typically made from baking powder leavened dough.
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Jamaica
panganat
Pomegranate. Botanical name Punica granatum, is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing between 5 and 8 m (16 and 26 ft) tall
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Jamaica
pap
A breakfast porridge made with cornmeal as a primary ingredient. It may also include milk, coconut milk, sugar, and spices like nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla.
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Jamaica
pap chow
Bok Choy
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Puerto Rico
papa
Potato
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Barbados
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
papaw
A torpedo, oval, or pear shaped fruit. The fruit bears on a large leafed tree up to 10m tall. When green, it is cooked as if a vegetable. The flesh contains an enzyme named papain that serves as an effective meat tenderiser. When ripe it is yellowish-orange in colour. The flesh is bright orange, soft, and sweet. The insides are hollow containing a lots of seeds with each seed contained in a small liquid filled sac. The seeds and the fluid surrounding them have a bitter taste.
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Belize
papaya
A torpedo, oval, or pear shaped fruit. The fruit bears on a large leafed tree up to 10m tall. When green, it is cooked as if a vegetable. The flesh contains an enzyme named papain that serves as an effective meat tenderiser. When ripe it is yellowish-orange in colour. The flesh is bright orange, soft, and sweet. The insides are hollow containing a lots of seeds with each seed contained in a small liquid filled sac. The seeds and the fluid surrounding them have a bitter taste.
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Trinidad & Tobago
paratha roti
A roti made with butter, usually ghee. Oil is rubbed on both sides, then it is cooked on a tawah. This gives the roti a crisp outside. When it almost finished cooking, the cook begins to beat it, causing it to crumble
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Jamaica
parrot
Parrotfish
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Trinidad & Tobago
parsad
A sweet dessert made from flour and cream of wheat.
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Jamaica
passion
Passion fruit
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Puerto Rico
pastel
A dish consisting of mixed meat stewed with capers, olives, raisins and prunes, wrapped in cornmeal, then wrapped in banana or plantain leaves and boiled.
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Trinidad & Tobago
pastelle
A dish consisting of mixed meat stewed with capers, olives, raisins and prunes, wrapped in cornmeal, then wrapped in banana or plantain leaves and boiled.
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Jamaica
patty
A light flaky pastry filled with a savoury filling. Traditionally they were filled with ground beef, but modern incarnations can have a variety of fillings including chicken, callaloo, cabbage, or ackee and saltfish.
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Jamaica
patty and coco bread
A lunch or snack item consisting of a patty sandwiched inside a coco bread.
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St. Lucia
Trinidad & Tobago
payme
A dessert item similar to bread pudding that is made from any combination of cassava, coco, sweet potato, or cornmeal along with flour, sugar and spices like nutmeg and cinnamon. The mixture is traditionally wrapped in leaves (banana or taro) or cloth and then boiled until cooked.
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Antigua & Barbuda
Barbados
Belize
Jamaica
pear
Avocado. Edible pear shaped or round fruit with an egg shaped seed. The flesh is green on the outside and turns yellow closer to the seed.
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Barbados
Belize
Guyana
British Virgin Isles.
US Virgin Islands
peas and rice
A dish made from rice and peas or beans. Red kidney beans and gungo are commonly used. The dish is typically prepared with coconut milk and lots of seasoning.
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