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Haitian Cuisine

↳ from Port-au-Prince, Haiti

A Creole cuisine of African, French and Taíno heritage: fried pork (griot) with spicy pikliz slaw, rice with beans and pumpkin soup (soup joumou), which is eaten on New Year's Day for independence.

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Specialties

History

Haiti's soup joumou was once forbidden to enslaved people. After the 1804 revolution it became the symbol of freedom, and UNESCO listed it in 2021.

Ingredients

  • Pork
  • Rice
  • Beans
  • Plantain
  • Pumpkin
  • Scotch bonnet
  • Epis (herb paste)
  • Lime

How it's made

  1. Marinate pork in epis and sour orange
  2. Boil then fry the pork
  3. Make pikliz of cabbage and Scotch bonnet
  4. Serve with rice and fried plantain
to drink

What Haiti drinks

Barbancourt rum, Prestige beer, kremas, clairin

Ratings & notes

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