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Antiguan & Barbudan Cuisine

↳ from St John's, Antigua and Barbuda

Island food: ducana (sweet potato dumpling) with saltfish, fungie (cornmeal), pepperpot and the sweet Antigua black pineapple.

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Specialties

History

Enslaved Africans on sugar estates combined African cooking with English and local ingredients, hence the cornmeal dishes like fungie.

Ingredients

  • Sweet potato
  • Coconut
  • Saltfish
  • Cornmeal
  • Okra
  • Black pineapple

How it's made

  1. Grate sweet potato with coconut and spices
  2. Wrap in banana leaf and boil as ducana
  3. Stew saltfish with onion and tomato
  4. Serve together
to drink

What Antigua and Barbuda drinks

English Harbour rum, Wadadli beer, ginger beer

Ratings & notes

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