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Barbadian Cuisine (Bajan)

↳ from Bridgetown, Barbados

Cou-cou (cornmeal and okra) with flying fish is the national dish. Rum is part of life, and the island claims to be its birthplace.

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Specialties

History

Barbados was a major sugar colony in the 1600s. Enslaved Africans cooked cornmeal and okra dishes with English and local ingredients.

Ingredients

Flying fish
Cornmeal
Okra
Breadfruit
Sweet potato
Macaroni
Thyme

How it's made

Steam flying fish with spice sauce
Stir cornmeal and okra into cou-cou
Serve with gravy
Add pepper sauce

to drink

What Barbados drinks

Mount Gay rum, Banks beer, Mauby, Falernum

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