Fried Roasted Breadfruit

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    16 slices

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      15 min

Appears in
Eat Caribbean

By Virginia Burke

Published 2005

  • About

It was to secure a shipment of breadfruit plants for the West Indian colonies that Captain Bligh sailed the Bounty to the South Pacific in the first place. The famous story of the mutiny on the Bounty has been well documented and romanticised. Breadfruit, which is now a staple in the Caribbean, was finally brought from Tahiti to Jamaica by Captain Bligh in 1793 and from there this starchy fruit was introduced around the islands. It is a tall tree with large and beautiful five-pronged leaves