Dishes made of Okra (this is one of the specific local vegetables), all sorts of seafood and fish dishes, as well as fruit desserts are quite common on the island. However, meat dishes are also cooked here. For example, those who love meat will surely enjoy the sauce of the pork products. It may seem strange that you can get different variations of this dish, just changing its recipe. Nevertheless, there are almost five dozen types of sauce are cooked here, and each cook has his own secret of its creation. Meat is also a part of a well-known callaloo soup. This is a very thick dish, more like a stew, which can be made of pork or chicken with the addition of vegetables, okra, seafood, herbs and spices in quite large quantities.
One of the few surviving dishes of Indian cuisine is roti. This is a flat cake, with a filling of meat or bread. Roti is often eaten on the go as a dish for a quick snack. In general, hasty tourists who do not like to spend a lot of time for lunch or breakfast will love Tortola. Not only roti is very common on the island. Be sure to try a dish called pates. It consists of a thin cake resembling pita bread, which is wrapped with meat and spices, seafood or vegetables and fried in a frying pan. Many islanders eat this dish on the go, and it is cooked very quickly.
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