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Every Saturday

Saturday soup

Jamaican households cook a big pot of soup on Saturday, thick with yam, dumplings and meat.

Jerked pork and chicken served with hard dough bread, jerk sauce, festival, fried pressed plantain and coleslaw at Tracks & Records, Kgn, Jamaica.
Photo: Xaymacan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Saturday soup

Saturday in Jamaica is soup day. After the morning market a large pot goes on, and it serves as lunch and dinner. The soup is thick enough to be a meal: beef, chicken foot, goat or red peas, with pumpkin, yam, green banana, carrots and long flour dumplings called spinners, seasoned with thyme, scallion and Scotch bonnet. It leaves the cook free for the rest of the day and clears the way for the big Sunday dinner.

The dishes

Mannish waterGoat soup, one of the Saturday pots.

Also part of it, and being written: Dumpling (Long flour spinners cooked in the soup.), Yam (Cut in chunks to thicken the pot.).

About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Jamaican cuisine" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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