French Guianan cuisine or Guianan cuisine is a mixture of Creole, Bushinengue, and indigenous cuisines, supplemented by influences from the cuisines of more recent immigrant groups. Common ingredients include cassava, smoked fish, and smoked chicken. Creole restaurants may be found alongside Chinese restaurants in major cities such as Cayenne, Kourou and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.
Common ingredients[edit]
Spices and condiments[edit]
- Bélimbi
- Allspice
- Cinnamon
- Clove
- Turmeric
- Ginger
- Kwabio (condiment)
- Cayenne pepper
- Green pepper
- Roucou
Vegetables[edit]
- Garlic
- Onion
- Shallots
- Eggplant
- Yellow and green banana (cooking banana)
- Calou (pepper)
- Zucchini
- Chestnut
- Pumpkin
- Cucumber
- Dachine
- Spinach
- Breadfruit
- Yardlong bean
- Red bean
- Yams
- Cassava
- Turnip
- parépou
- Sorossi
- Yam
- Pigeon peas
- Pea
- Tayove
- Green bean
Common fruits[edit]
- Apricot country
- Acerola cherry
- Cayenne cherry
- Mango
- Passion fruit
- Orange
- Clementine
- Mandarin
- Chadeck
- Lemon
- Papaya
- Apple Cinnamon
- Kythira plum
- Rambutan
- Tomato
- Banana
Meats[edit]
Game (hunting)[edit]
Seafood[edit]
- Sardines
- Tuna
- Machoiran
- Acoupa
- Snapper
- Mangrove crab
- Mangrove oyster
- Shrimp
- Atipas
- Aymara
- Pirai
- Coumarou
- Pacou
- Pacoussine
- Tiger torch
- Snail
- Shark
- Line
- Mule
- toadfish
- Palika
- Croupia
- Ti-Djol
- Patagaï
Local cuisine[edit]
Creole cuisine blends flavors of tropical products Amazonian many from the forest as cassava, awara the comou and game. But many dishes have their roots deep in Africa, Asia and Europe. What gives it that spicy and subtle flavor. On the local market, instead of obligatory passage, the Creole merchant advise and make taste their products. This ranges from couac, cassava flour, essential for the realization of fierce lawyer, which draws all its power from the cayenne pepper. The cassava, long reserved for the poor, becoming a sought-after commodity, it is used in the stuffed restaurants in the Kalawanng or sweetened either with coconut jam, or with grated coconut or guava paste. As for Kontès, which consume a starter or an aperitif, they accompany the famous Ti' Punch.[1]
Drinks[edit]
- Ti' Punch (little punch)
- Saint-Maurice Rum
- Roselle syrup of Roselle (plant)
- Planter
- punch various (coconut punch, comou punch, maracudja punch ...)
- Comou or Açaí juice
Starters[edit]
- Creole pudding
- Shrimp marinade
- Cod fritters
- Stuffed crab
- soup z'habitant(s) (popular creole soup)
- Mangrove oysters (from Montsinéry)
Dishes (food)[edit]
- Fish or chicken blaff
- Awara broth
- Calou (smoked meat and/or shrimp and pig tails with spinach)
- Kalawang (green mango salad)
- Guianan colombo (stew of meat and vegetables with curry: potato, green arricot, etc.)
- Pig, chicken, beef, or iguana fricassee
- Giraumonade (mashed pumpkin)
- Pawpaw, cucumber, dasheen, or couac gratin
- Pig-tails and beans ("haricot rouj ké la tcho cochon" in creole)
- Pimentade (fish in tomato sauce)
- Fish sauce maracudja
- Yam puree
- Couac salad
- Creole steak
- Smoked fish, chicken, pork ribs...
- Lentils with pig-tails ("lanty ké la tcho cochon" in creole)
- Smoked dishes
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Smoked fish -
Smoked chicken -
Smoked pork ribs
Desserts, sweets, pastries[edit]
- Angou (desserts)
- Coconut Jam,
- Sweet potato jam,
- Conserve (coconut tablet)
- Couac coconut (sweetened semolina)
- Creticus (candied coconut)
- Frozen sorrel
- Lotcho (sweet pulp coconut)
- Pistachio Nougat (black nougat)
- Ramiquin (pulled candy sugar)
- Barley Sugar
- Wang (sweet or savory powder)
- Zoa (semolina sugary cereal)
- Zorey Milat (fruit in syrup jam)
- Coconut sorbet
- French toast
- Sispa
- Banana salad
- Eggs with milk
- Lanmou chinwa (cake)
- American (cake)
- Bindingwel,
- Countess
- Dizé milé (donut)
- Dokonon (poached cake in foil)
- Cramanioc cake (pudding)
- Marzipan,
- Banana pulp (slipper)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Gastronomie en Guyane française". Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
