🇱🇨 Saint Lucian Cuisine

Provision Platter

Boiled Root Vegetable Platter

Prep Time 40 minutes

Servings 4

Difficulty Easy

Calories 334 kcal

A colourful platter of boiled ground provisions including dasheen, yam, sweet potato, green banana, and breadfruit, served with butter and saltfish.

Ingredients

2 dasheen roots, peeled and quartered
1 yam, peeled and sliced
2 sweet potatoes, peeled and quartered
3 green bananas, peeled
1/4 breadfruit, peeled and sliced
2 tbsp butter
Salt to taste
Saltfish saute for serving

Instructions

1 Peel and cut all provisions into similar-sized pieces.
2 Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
3 Add provisions starting with the hardest: yam and dasheen first, cook 10 minutes.
4 Add sweet potato and breadfruit. Cook another 10 minutes.
5 Add green bananas last. Cook until all provisions are tender, about 8 more minutes.
6 Drain and arrange on a platter. Top with butter.
7 Serve alongside saltfish saute.

Did You Know?

In Saint Lucia, the word provisions specifically refers to root vegetables and starchy fruits. Asking someone to bring provisions means tubers, not grocery shopping.