Food of Dominica

Dominica, the Nature Island, cooks with rich volcanic-soil produce: provisions such as yams, dasheen and plantains, with fresh river crayfish and seafood. Callaloo soup, bakes with saltfish and bush teas are local favorites, flavored with thyme, scallion and pepper.

Callaloo soup
National dish

Callaloo soup

Green leaf soup with coconut.

Staples

  • dasheen
  • yam
  • plantain
  • crayfish
  • fish
  • coconut
  • citrus
  • breadfruit

Signature flavors

  • thyme
  • scotch bonnet
  • scallion
  • nutmeg
  • cinnamon
  • lime

Main dishes

Callaloo soup
Callaloo soup

Green leaf soup with coconut.

Key ingredients: dasheen leaves, coconut milk
Bakes and saltfish

Fried bread with seasoned saltfish.

Key ingredients: flour, saltfish
Provisions

Boiled yam, dasheen and plantain.

Key ingredients: yam, dasheen, plantain
Crayfish

River crayfish stew.

Key ingredients: crayfish, thyme
Stewed chicken

Chicken stewed with herbs.

Key ingredients: chicken, herbs
Goat water

Goat stew.

Key ingredients: goat
Breadfruit and fish

Breadfruit with stewed fish.

Key ingredients: breadfruit, fish

Street food

Bakes

Fried dough pockets.

Key ingredients: flour
Roti
Roti

Curried flatbread.

Key ingredients: roti

Desserts and sweets

Coconut sweet bread

Sweet loaf.

Key ingredients: coconut, flour
Guava cheese

Guava candy.

Key ingredients: guava, sugar

Drinks

Bush tea

Herbal infusion.

Key ingredients: herbs
Passion fruit juice

Fresh.

Key ingredients: passion fruit

Fruits and produce

Grapefruit
Grapefruit

Sweet local variety.

Mango
Mango

Many varieties.

Passion fruit
Passion fruit

Grown wild.

Cocoa

Local crop.

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About this page

Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.

Photo credits
  • Callaloo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/67276179@N08/, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • 2020-05-08 19 34 28 Chapati being made in a pan in the Franklin Farm section of Oak Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Grapefruits - whole-halved-segments: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Mangos - single and halved: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Passiflora edulis forma flavicarpa: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)