Culture of Barbados

Cuisine

Bajan cuisine includes a unique blend of foods with African, Indian and British influences.

The national dish of Barbados is Cou-Cou & Flying Fish.

In addition to flying fish, many other varieties of fish are found in the waters surrounding Barbados, including kingfish, swordfish, red snapper, yellow-fin tune, albacore tuna, marlin, shark and dolphin. Staples include sweet potato, yam, breadfruit, cassava, rice, English potato, pasta and cou-cou.

Other very popular dishes include fried fish cakes, fish & chips, souse (a pickled pork dish), black pudding, macaroni pie, and sweet desserts such as tamarind balls and baked custard.

Food sold by street vendors is popular on the island, and key locations include Baxter's Road near Bridgetown, and Oistins, with its Friday Night Fish Fry.

Barbadian cuisine

Staples / Entrée	Bay leaf Breadfruit Garlic Green onion Onion Parsley Peas Potato Pumpkin Rice Scotty bon peppers Yam

Common Barbadian dishes	Bakes Cou-cou and flying fish Fish cakes Fried fish Macaroni pie Peas and rice Pelau Black pudding and Souse Proper pork

Soups / Stews	Cow heel soup Curry goat stew Lamb stew

Salads / Wraps / Cutters	Lime and Salt Roti wrap

Snacks / Desserts	Banana bread Black bitch Cassava Pone Coconut bread Conkies Jug-Jug Great cake Lead pipes Rum cake Salt bread Sugar cakes Sweetbread

Beverages	Banks beer Claytons Kola Tonic Falernum Ginger beer Mauby Rum Sorrel

Condiments	Bajan pepper sauce Bajan herb seasoning

Utensils	Cou-cou stick Swizzle stick

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