10 recipes using tomatoes — Jerk chicken, ackee & saltfish, rice and peas — fiery Caribbean soul food.
These 10 jamaican tomatoes recipes are ready in about 52 minutes on average, with 259–460 kcal per serving, and 60% 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 tomatoes, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are boiling, sautéing, simmering and frying.
Sweet-acidic fruit that forms the backbone of sauces, stews and salads across nearly every cuisine. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, garlic, scotch bonnet pepper, fresh thyme, coconut milk and scallions. The dishes here span jamaican classics ready in as little as 35 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Ackee and Saltfish is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.8★ from 1,640 ratings.
Jamaica's national dish — canned ackee fruit sautéed with desalted salt cod, onion, tomato, Scotch bonnet and thyme. Served for breakfast with dumplings or breadfruit.
Jamaica's national dish — creamy ackee fruit sautéed with shredded salted cod, Scotch bonnet, onion and tomato — a breakfast classic with a flavour unlike anything else.
Mackerel cooked in coconut milk with Scotch bonnet and tomatoes until the milk 'runs down' into a rich sauce — a coastal Jamaican classic.
Jamaica's national breakfast — ackee fruit with salt cod, peppers, and onions on dumplings.
Sauteed ackee fruit and flaked salt cod with onion, tomato and scotch bonnet, Jamaica's official national dish, traditionally eaten for breakfast.
Fried cassava bammy topped with grilled fish, tomato and onion, a Jamaican coastal specialty turned into a hearty salad plate.
A hearty Jamaican callaloo and vegetable omelet finished with a tangy tamarind-tomato drizzle.
A crisp Jamaican-style chopped salad with cucumber, tomato, and cabbage, dressed with lime and green chile.
Bell peppers stuffed with coconut rice, thyme and scallion, baked until tender, a Jamaican-inspired supper.
Flaky white fish baked with tomatoes, thyme, scallion and Scotch bonnet in a bright, herby casserole.
Ripe tomatoes smell fragrant at the stem and give slightly to a gentle squeeze. For cooking out of season, good-quality tinned tomatoes often beat pale fresh ones.
Store at room temperature, never the fridge, which kills their flavour and texture. Score and blanch to slip off skins; salting slices draws out excess water for salads.
A low-calorie source of vitamin C, potassium and the antioxidant lycopene — which actually becomes more available when tomatoes are cooked.
Most of these 10 Jamaican tomatoes recipes are ready in around 52 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Jamaican Bammy Salad with Grilled Fish, takes about 35 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 75 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 259 to 460 kcal per serving, averaging 375 kcal — Jamaican Festival Salad with Green Chile and Lime is the lightest option at 259 kcal.
Ackee and Saltfish (Jamaica's National Dish) is a great place to start — it's rated easy and comes together in about 40 minutes. 60% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, tomatoes is most often paired with onion, garlic, scotch bonnet pepper, fresh thyme, coconut milk and scallions. Jamaican kitchens also lean on its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends.
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