About the Jamaican Roast Fish

After the jerk pork and jerk chicken, roast fish is maybe the third most popular street food in Jamaica. However, the roast fish can be quite expensive so is sold only in some popular areas.

It takes skill to prepare your fish and your ingredients have to be on point.

Roast fish today is not what it used to be in years gone by. Previously, fish was just placed on a piece of zinc on hot coals and when it was cooked, you dunk it in some salt water. There were no spices used and most people would use the sea water as their dunking sauce. Personally, I prefer the old fashioned method except for the sea water part. I would make my own salted water concoction and add some pepper.

These days the roast fish is prepared with lots of spiced and stuffing. Placed in a foil paper in a grill and steamed to perfection.

Roast fish isn't served with anything in particular but just in case you want a side, you can get festival or bammies with your fish. Like the steamed fish, the roast fish is also priced according to sizes; small, medium large or by the pound.

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About Jamaican Steamed Fish

A very popular dish in Jamaica, steamed fish is really more like a light fish stew. The place most known for it's steamed or fried fish is Healthshire Beach. People will drive miles upon miles to go get some seafood there, well I can imagine, since the seafood come fresh out of the sea right there.

Some restaurant owners even have you pick out your own fish. The food is sold by the the size of the fish. So you can order a 1/2 lb or 1 lb fish.

Bammy is the usual starch that is served with the fish but if you don't like bammy then for some boiled banana, yam and dumplings. on rare occasions the housewife will make rice to be served with the steamed fish. Personally I like my fish with boiled bananas or bammy. But steamed fish without some sort of steamed veges like the okra and carrots is not really steamed fish at all.

You can make you steamed fish as simple as you like or elaborate as you wish. Add more vegetables or no vegetables at all.

You can also choose to slice the pepper to make the sauce spicy, but remember that Jamaican scotch bonnet peppers are hot, hot, hot!

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Enjoy!