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🇧🇲 Traditional dishes from Bermuda

3 dishes people actually cook in Bermuda: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

What can you cook from Bermuda? 3 traditional Bermuda dishes, from Bermuda fish sandwich (35 min, the quickest) to Hoppin' john (810 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.

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Bermuda fish sandwich

35 minutes · easy · 11 ingredients

Bermuda fish sandwich, a traditional dish from Bermuda

Bermuda fries wahoo in a double flour crust and stacks it on sweet raisin bread, whose rum-soaked fruit is the whole point of the sandwich.

  • 8 slice bermudian raisin bread
  • 600 g wahoo fillets
  • 200 g all purpose flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 120 ml tartar sauce
  • 300 g white cabbage
  • 3 tbsp mayonnaise
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 4 slice cheddar cheese
  • 2 tsp hot sauce
  • 500 ml frying oil

Fish chowder

2 hours and 10 minutes · medium · 12 ingredients

Fish chowder, a traditional dish from Bermuda

Bermuda's national soup is a dark, brothy tomato chowder with no dairy at all, finished at the table with black rum and sherry peppers sauce.

  • 2 tbsp sherry peppers sauce
  • 60 ml black rum
  • 600 g white fish fillets
  • 800 g fish heads and bones
  • 400 g tomatoes
  • 1 onion
  • 2 stick celery
  • 2 carrots
  • 400 g potatoes
  • 2 tbsp worcestershire sauce
  • 1 bunch fresh thyme
  • 50 g butter

Hoppin' john

13 hours and 30 minutes · easy · 10 ingredients

Hoppin' john, a traditional dish from Bermuda

The standard Bermudian side of black-eyed peas and rice, built on bacon fat and tomato paste and scented with whole sprigs of thyme.

  • 250 g black eyed peas
  • 300 g long grain rice
  • 150 g bacon
  • 1 onion
  • 1 bunch fresh thyme
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • 800 ml chicken stock
  • 30 g butter
  • 1 tsp black pepper

What do people eat in Bermuda?

Copper documents three dishes from Bermuda: Bermuda fish sandwich, Fish chowder and Hoppin' john. Butter and fresh thyme each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are simmered. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 30 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Bermuda?

The three recipes need 30 ingredients between them, of which 3 are shared by more than one dish. Fresh thyme the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 6 use fresh thyme. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Bermuda take?

Bermuda fish sandwich is the quickest at 35 minutes. Hoppin' john is the longest at 810 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 130 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Bermuda is easiest to make at home?

Bermuda fish sandwich and Hoppin' john are rated easy — start there. The full method is on each recipe page, step by step, free to read.

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