Delicious Tasty Caribbean Food Recipes

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Here is a summary of tasty Caribbean recipes, rephrased with a specific focus on the unique cooking styles of the U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John).

Tasty Virgin Islands cooking is a distinct and flavorful chapter of Caribbean cuisine, reflecting a rich history of Danish colonial influence, West African resilience, and a deep connection to the sea and land. It's often called "Crucian cuisine" (from St. Croix) or "VI food" and is defined by its unique techniques and local ingredients.

At its heart, Virgin Islands recipes are about:

1. A Fusion of Taino, African, and Danish Flavors

The flavor profile is bold and aromatic, but with its own local twists:

· Local Seasonings: Mash-ups (homemade herb and pepper pastes), sofrito (called recaito), and the generous use of thyme, marjoram, and bullfoot pepper (a unique local variety) are essential.

· Sweet & Savory Balance: Like much of the Caribbean, fruits like tamarind, genip, and mango are used in sauces and drinks, but you'll also find Danish-inspired pickling techniques used on local vegetables and fish.

2. The Foundation: Local Staples & "Ground Provisions"

The cuisine is built on what the land and sea provide:

· Seafood is King: Conch (whelk), spiny lobster, mahi-mahi, and old wife fish are staples, often prepared as stews, fried, or boiled in flavorful broths.

· "Ground Provisions": This refers to root vegetables like yams, sweet potatoes, tania, and cassava, which are often boiled and served as a side with a drizzle of onion-based gravy.

· Fungi: Not the mushroom, but a quintessential Virgin Islands side made from cornmeal and okra, similar to a slightly dense polenta or cou-cou. It's a direct African influence and a must-have with stewed fish.

3. Signature Virgin Islands Cooking Techniques

· Stewing & Braising: This is a cornerstone of home cooking. Dishes like stewed oxtail, stewed chicken, and stewed saltfish are slow-cooked to tenderness in a rich, brown gravy made with caramelized sugar, which gives it a distinctive color and depth of flavor (a technique with Danish roots).

· The "Coal Pot": Traditional outdoor clay cooking pots heated with coal. While less common today, they impart a beloved smoky flavor to soups and stews that is hard to replicate.

· Frying: Pates (pronounced "pots") are the VI's answer to empanadas—fried dough pockets filled with spiced meat, saltfish, or conch. Kallaloo (a hearty soup made from the leafy green callaloo) is another deep-water West African tradition.

4. A Culture of Local Eateries

Food in the Virgin Islands is deeply social, centered around:

· Local "Food Trucks" & Stands: Locally known as "roach coaches" or food vans, these are the heart of the community, serving up heaping plates of authentic, home-cooked meals like stew chicken with rice and peas and fungi.

· Heritage & Celebration: Dishes like jug jug (a savory pigeon pea and guinea corn porridge akin to Scottish haggis, made for Christmas) highlight the blend of African and European heritage.

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In a nutshell, tasty Virgin Islands recipes are about:

Hearty, flavorful, and history-rich dishes that blend African soul with Danish technique, slow-cooked to perfection and served with a side of local culture, always highlighting the fresh bounty of the sea and land.

Classic Virgin Islands examples you'll encounter: Stewed Oxtail, Conch in Butter Sauce, Kallaloo Soup, Pate, Fungi, and Maubi, a beloved fermented bark-based drink.

Here you will learn a little about us. My name is Mariano Amarro I was born on St. Thomas Virgin Islands and raised in St. John USVI on March 03,1970. My beautiful fiancé Evadney Griffth born on the island of St. Croix USVI Virgin Islands, on June 09,1973. We met each other on Facebook, Yes Facebook. We later realized it was destine by God for us to meet this way. I reach out to Evadney a year before and she let me know that is a year later she then responded to me. We started talking and realized we both loved the same things. We both made our food recipes in a similar way. We both was in shock even though our islands did certain recipes in a different way we still had a lot of similarities when it comes to cooking the different styles of food. Evadney and I love to cook and we try different recipes. Some of these recipes are Puerto Rican/Hispanics food and they are also part of our culture as well. We made this page because many people were requesting we write our recipes and sell them because they saw us cooking live on Facebook or YouTube and some are repeated customers that enjoy our food. We are known for making Pates, Johnny Cakes, Conch with spinach, veggie stew chunks,Brown rice, Quinoa, Fish, Peas,. Chicken soup & Freshly made hot Butter Bread. Our recipes will include season rice, mac n' cheese, peas soup. BBQ chicken, sweet potato stuffing , Potato Salad, Coleslaw. Bull foot Soup, Goat water also known as Manish water, Some will say goat water is great to strengthen a man manhood ,Stew Salt fish, Johnny cake also known as fry dumplings, Vienna Cake, Boil dumplings, Steam Fish, Stew Fish, Butter Bread, Meat loaf, Fried chicken ,fried fish, Varity of vegetarian dishes and more. Our best pate sellers Our best sellers or Conch, Saltfish, Chicken, Veggie, Whelks and Beef. Individuals love our different food dishes because of the great tasting seasoning we use That makes us different. We are island people just know we don't really measure our food we just eye it or taste as we cook.

 We want to do more but we want to be in a more bigger kitchen space to show you step by step how we do it. We are selling our recipes for just $39.95 but if you would like to donate extra funds to encourage us to do more lives on our YouTube channel. Really and truly we island people don't measure our food. We just cook to taste or while the food is cooking we taste as we go along. These recipes came from our parents and grand parents and its also consider secret recipes. We hope you enjoyed the recipes as much as we do. Thank you for your support.

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