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Bammy

Name: Bammy
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Jamaica
Ingredients: 200g Cassava flour; 200ml Coconut milk; 1/2 tsp Salt; 100ml Water; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Grated cassava pressed into rounds, soaked in coconut milk, and fried — Jamaica's flatbread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bammy is a food handed down from Jamaica's Indigenous Taíno people: grated, squeezed cassava pressed into flat rounds and cooked. Before eating, it's soaked in coconut milk and pan-fried or deep-fried. It's the classic side for escovitch fish.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Jamaican seaside shop, thick rounds of bammy are soaked in coconut milk, pan-fried golden, and set beside the fish.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Cassava flour 200g
Coconut milk 200ml
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 100ml
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Add water a little at a time to cassava flour and salt until moist and crumbly.
Press into rounds 10 cm across and 1 cm thick.
Cook in a dry frying pan over low heat for 5 minutes per side to set.
Soak in coconut milk for 10 minutes.
Heat oil in a frying pan and cook both sides until golden.

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