3 recipes using cheese — Jerk chicken, ackee & saltfish, rice and peas — fiery Caribbean soul food.
These 3 jamaican cheese recipes are ready in about 54 minutes on average, with 320–490 kcal per serving, and 0% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
Jamaican cuisine — Jerk chicken, ackee & saltfish, rice and peas — fiery Caribbean soul food — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Jamaican cooks work with cheese, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are baking and boiling.
A concentrated hit of savoury, salty richness used to melt, gratinate, crumble or finish a dish. In this collection it's most often cooked with flatbread dough, olive oil, fine sea salt, allspice and lemon juice. The dishes here span jamaican classics ready in as little as 45 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Spanish Town Lemon Herb Flatbread is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.6★ from 7,905 ratings.
Spanish Town Lemon Herb Flatbread turns jamaican pantry flavors into a complete flatbread with flatbread dough, allspice, thyme, Scotch bonnet and coconut, and a fresh thyme finish.
Jamaican Festival Lemon Herb Flatbread brings jamaican flavor to a practical flatbread built with flatbread dough, allspice, thyme, Scotch bonnet and coconut, and a fresh thyme finish.
Halved chayote squash stuffed with a seasoned ground beef filling and baked with cheese, a comforting Jamaican vegetable dinner.
Buy in blocks and grate fresh — pre-shredded cheese is coated with anti-caking starch that hampers melting. Match the cheese to the job: good melters (mozzarella, gruyère) versus crumblers (feta, parmesan).
Let cheese come to room temperature for the fullest flavour. Add delicate cheeses off the heat to stop them splitting; build a smooth sauce with a roux or a starch.
A calcium- and protein-rich food; it is also high in saturated fat and sodium, so a little sharp cheese goes a long way.
Most of these 3 Jamaican cheese recipes are ready in around 54 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Spanish Town Lemon Herb Flatbread, takes about 45 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 70 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 320 to 490 kcal per serving, averaging 432 kcal — Jamaican Stuffed Christophene (Chayote) is the lightest option at 320 kcal.
Spanish Town Lemon Herb Flatbread is a great place to start — it's rated medium and comes together in about 45 minutes. 0% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, cheese is most often paired with flatbread dough, olive oil, fine sea salt, allspice and lemon juice. Jamaican kitchens also lean on its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends.
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