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Pom

Name: Pom
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Suriname
Ingredients: 800g Taro root; 600g Chicken Thigh; 2 Onion; 2 Tomato; 150ml Orange juice; 2 tbsp Lemon juice; 60g Butter; A pinch Nutmeg; 1/2 Celery; 2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 1 tsp Sugar; 1 Chili pepper

Main Dish

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Citrus-braised chicken layered between grated root vegetable and baked — Suriname's celebration casserole.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pom is Suriname's national dish, essential for birthdays and other celebrations. Pomtajer, a root vegetable (American taro), is grated, and chicken stewed with orange and lemon juice is layered between it and baked. It's said to have emerged from a blend of Jewish and Creole cooking.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a birthday party in a Surinamese home, a golden casserole in a big ovenproof dish is cut and handed out tucked into bread.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Taro root 800g
Chicken Thigh 600g
Onion 2
Tomato 2
Orange juice 150ml
Lemon juice 2 tbsp
Butter 60g
Nutmeg A pinch
Celery 1/2
Salt 2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Sugar 1 tsp
Chili pepper 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces and rub with salt, pepper, and lemon juice.
Sauté the onion, celery, and tomato in 30g butter, add the chicken, orange juice, sugar, and chili, and simmer 30 minutes.
Peel and grate the taro and mix with melted butter, nutmeg, salt, and a little of the chicken liquid.
Spread half the taro in an ovenproof dish, add the chicken, and cover with the remaining taro.
Bake at 180°C for 1 hour until golden on top.

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