The Caribbean

Saint Kitts and Nevis

17 dishes documented

Black PuddingStreet Food

Black Pudding

A Caribbean blood sausage in which fresh pork blood is combined with mashed sweet potato and green aromatics, packed into cleaned pig intestine casing, and gently poached until set.

Breadfruit and Saltfishmain

Breadfruit and Saltfish

A Caribbean staple of cooked breadfruit — roasted in its skin or boiled until tender — paired with sautéed, desalted salt cod flaked through aromatics of onion, tomato, and hot pepper.

Cane Spirit Rothschild Rum Punchdrink

Cane Spirit Rothschild Rum Punch

A Kittitian rum punch built on CSR (Cane Spirit Rothschild) sugarcane spirit shaken with fresh lime, grenadine, water, and grated nutmeg.

Coconut Tartdessert

Coconut Tart

A Caribbean dessert of short-crust pastry filled with sweetened shredded coconut spiced with cinnamon, baked as small tarts or folded turnovers.

Conch Fritterssnack / street food

Conch Fritters

Deep-fried fritters of minced, tenderized queen conch folded into a spiced batter of flour, egg, and a Caribbean aromatic trinity, scooped or formed into rough balls and fried until golden-crisp.

Conkiessnack

Conkies

A sweet-spiced Caribbean steamed pudding of freshly grated coconut, cornmeal, and pumpkin, mixed with butter and warm spices, wrapped tightly in banana leaves, and cooked entirely by steam.

Dumplingsmain

Dumplings

A northern Chinese filled dumpling of unleavened wheat-flour wrapper pleated around a seasoned pork-and-napa-cabbage filling, cooked by boiling, steaming, or pan-frying and served with a black-vinegar dipping sauce.

Fried Spiny Lobstermain

Fried Spiny Lobster

Fried Spiny Lobster is a Caribbean main dish of spiny lobster seasoned with island spices and either pan‑fried or deep‑fried to a crisp finish, served hot with lime.

Goat Watermain

Goat Water

A slow-simmered bone-in goat meat and breadfruit stew, deeply spiced with whole cloves and finished with rum, constituting the defining feast dish of the Eastern Caribbean islands of Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda.

Johnny Cakebread / side

Johnny Cake

A dense, mildly sweet Caribbean quick bread made from a skillet-baked blend of cornmeal and wheat flour, distinguished by a firm pan-crisped base and a compact, slightly crumbly interior.

Peanut Punchsnack

Peanut Punch

A creamy Caribbean blended drink of peanut butter with milk, condensed milk, vanilla, and a dash of bitters or nutmeg, sold as a rich street-stall tonic.

Peas and Riceside

Peas and Rice

A Bahamian staple side dish of dried or canned pigeon peas slow-cooked in a single pot with rendered salt pork, tomato, onion, thyme, and long-grain rice until the rice is fluffy and fully saturated with savory, smoky, herbal flavor.

Pelaumain

Pelau

A Caribbean one-pot rice dish in which bone-in chicken is browned directly in dry-caramelised sugar, then slow-cooked with pigeon peas, coconut milk, and green seasoning until the rice absorbs all liquid and the bottom of the pot forms a lightly scorched, prized crust.

Roasted Breadfruitmain

Roasted Breadfruit

Whole breadfruit roasted until the skin chars and the flesh becomes soft and fluffy, served hot as a hearty side or main.

RotiBread / accompaniment

Roti

Roti is an unleavened whole‑wheat flatbread cooked on a hot griddle, traditionally served as a daily staple accompaniment in Indian diaspora communities across the Caribbean, Pacific and East Africa.

Stew Chickenmain

Stew Chicken

A richly spiced Caribbean and Central American braised chicken stew built on bone-in chicken browned and slow-cooked with aromatics into a thick, deeply colored gravy — colored by achiote (recado rojo) in the Belizean form or by burnt-sugar browning in the Anglophone Caribbean — typically served over rice or with ground provisions.

Stewed Salt Fish with Spicy Plantainsbreakfast

Stewed Salt Fish with Spicy Plantains

A traditional Caribbean breakfast of dried, desalted cod fish braised with aromatics and spices, served alongside sweet, fried ripe plantains.