If you love fish dishes, Tortola is a culinary paradise for you. Old wife is a delicious fish fillet cooked with vegetables and fruit, or pancakes made of fish or seafood. Shark soup and grilled fish with vegetables and okra are also popular. Local restaurants usually serve snapper, wahoo, grouper, mahi-mahi and tuna, but you can find here fried, boiled or stewed almost any inhabitants of the sea. Don’t miss the chance to try dishes from local lobsters, which have a different structure of the body from lobsters from other regions and are considered to be the most delicious in the world. Different fish soups are served in local restaurants. They often have a quite difficult and strange recipe, with the addition of vegetables, okra, herbs and sometimes even meat. Mussel pie is also a delicious dish.
As a side dish, you can order different vegetables, okra and local grains, which are somewhat similar to the Italian polenta called funghi. Fish is usually served with potato pudding, fried bananas and vegetables. Johnny-cake is quite a popular local dish. It has a lot of variations of cooking, and it consists of fried dough. Most of the local desserts are fruit platters. Indian dates, papaya, pineapples, guava, mango, and passion fruit are popular here. The most popular fruit dish is a Virgin dessert, which consists of a large number of different fruits, seasoned with a light sauce.
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