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🇬🇩 Traditional dishes from Grenada

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

What can you cook from Grenada? 3 traditional Grenada dishes, from Bake and shark (150 min, the quickest) to Oil down (830 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.

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Bake and shark

2 hours and 30 minutes · medium · 12 ingredients

Bake and shark, a traditional dish from Grenada

Trinidadian beach sandwich in which a yeast dough disc is fried until it puffs, then split and filled with lime and garlic marinated shark.

  • 600 g shark fillet
  • 500 g all-purpose flour
  • 7 g instant yeast
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 limes
  • 6 clove garlic
  • 1 bunch culantro
  • 1 scotch bonnet pepper
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1000 ml vegetable oil
  • 50 g tamarind

Callaloo soup

3 hours and 35 minutes · easy · 11 ingredients

Callaloo soup, a traditional dish from Grenada

Taro leaves and okra beaten with coconut milk into a thick green soup, usually cooked with crab and salted pork.

  • 400 g dasheen leaves
  • 10 okra
  • 400 ml coconut milk
  • 300 g salted pigtail
  • 2 crab
  • 1 onion
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 1 bunch thyme
  • 1 scotch bonnet pepper
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper

Oil down

13 hours and 50 minutes · medium · 12 ingredients

Oil down, a traditional dish from Grenada

Grenada one-pot dish where breadfruit, salted meat and dumplings are packed in layers and cooked until the coconut milk is completely absorbed.

  • 1 breadfruit
  • 400 g salted beef
  • 300 g salted pigtail
  • 800 ml coconut milk
  • 300 g dasheen leaves
  • 2 tsp turmeric
  • 200 g all-purpose flour
  • 1 onion
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 1 bunch thyme
  • 1 scotch bonnet pepper
  • 1 tsp black pepper

What do people eat in Grenada?

Copper documents three dishes from Grenada: Bake and shark, Callaloo soup and Oil down. Garlic and scotch bonnet pepper each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are simmered. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 22 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Grenada?

The three recipes need 22 ingredients between them, of which 8 are shared by more than one dish. Dasheen leaves and salted pigtail the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 5 use dasheen leaves and 5 use salted pigtail. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Grenada take?

Bake and shark is the quickest at 150 minutes. Oil down is the longest at 830 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 215 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Grenada is easiest to make at home?

Callaloo soup is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.

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