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Every Sunday

Sunday rice and peas

Jamaican Sunday dinner is rice cooked with beans and coconut milk, with chicken or oxtail.

Cooked Basmati Rice and peas (beans), with pineapple juice, tomato paste, parsley, diced sun dried tomatoes and topped with a sun dried tomato.
Photo: Lili, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Sunday rice and peas

Sunday dinner in Jamaica is the largest meal of the week, and its base is always rice and peas. The peas are red kidney beans or gungo peas, cooked with rice in coconut milk with thyme, scallion and a whole Scotch bonnet pepper. It is served with brown stew chicken, fried chicken, curry goat or oxtail, and often with a cold glass of carrot juice or sorrel.

The dishes

Rice and peasRice and beans in coconut milk, the base of the meal.Curry GoatA usual Sunday meat.Oxtail stewBraised with butter beans.Fried plantainOn the side.
About this page

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

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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