Jamaican Roasted Banana and Sweet Potato

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Ghillie Basan

Published 2019

  • About

Vegetarian and Rastafarian, this dish is wrapped in the aroma of allspice, a berry that is indigenous to Jamaica and a handful of other regions in the New World. Often referred to as ‘Jamaican pepper’, the berry has a lovely aromatic, resinous flavour. Marijuana, rather than whisky, might be the natural accompaniment to this dish as Rastafarians don’t drink alcohol, but the bananas and sweet potatoes are just crying out for a little honey-scented spirit trickling with ginger, cinnamon, nutm