Dining Out: Caribbean Cuisine
Restaurant-Specific Strategies
-- By SparkPeople
Characteristics:A combination of African and Spanish cooking, spices and fruits are its signature.
Common Ingredients:
Variety of seafood, spicy meats, tropical fruits, hot peppers, and root vegetables.
Hidden Dangers:
- Rice and beans—If it’s plain and basic, that’s fine. But this is often coated in high-fat coconut milk.
- Callaloo dishes usually contain salt pork and coconut milk.
Healthy Finds:
- Jerk Chicken—smoked and seasoned with peppers, and served with a number of tropical fruits.
- Stew Peas & Rice—pork or beef with kidney beans over rice. Often comes with flour dumplings called spinners.
- Escoveitch Fish—marinated with vegetables, peppers and vinegar, and served over rice with plantains and fruit chutney.
The Big Tip:
Scotch bonnet peppers should throw up a red flag. Unless you LOVE the hottest of hot peppers, your mouth may regret it!
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