Dominican cuisine

Dominican cooking is Caribbean and filling: plantain, root vegetables, rice and beans, and meat marinated in lime.

The weekday lunch is called "la bandera dominicana", the Dominican flag: rice, stewed beans and meat on one plate, nearly every day.

Plantain is eaten at every stage of ripeness and in every form: green ones boiled and mashed, ripe ones fried, firm ones flattened into tostones.

4 dishes

  • Dominican sancocho

    A thick soup of several meats and root vegetables. Celebration food, cooked for a crowd.

    165 min · Medium · Soup

  • Mangú

    Mashed boiled green plantain with pickled onion, egg, fried cheese and salami.

    50 min · Easy · Breakfast

  • Pollo guisado

    Chicken braised in caramelised sugar with vegetables, the Dominican weekday lunch.

    80 min · Easy · Main course

  • Sweet cream of beans

    A sweet dessert cream of red beans with coconut milk, sweet potato and biscuits.

    115 min · Easy · Dessert