~539 cal · 10g protein · 73g carbs · 24g fat (estimated, per serving)
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Fried bakes filled with mashed avocado
🇩🇲 Roseau
On Dominica, the Nature Isle, breakfast often centers on bakes — puffy fried dough — split hot and filled. A favorite filling is zaboca, the local avocado, mashed with lime, onion, and pepper. Creamy and bright against the crisp bread, it makes a hearty meat-free start to the day.
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🥚 Egg-Free
Ingredients
Serves 4 —
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2.5 cups all-purpose flour
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2 tsp baking powder
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1 tbsp sugar
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3/4 cup warm water
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2 ripe avocado (zaboca)
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1 lime
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1/2 onion
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to taste hot pepper
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3 cups neutral oil, for frying
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to taste salt
Instructions
1
Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt with warm water into a soft dough; rest 15 minutes.
2
Shape into rounds, flatten slightly, and fry in hot oil until puffed and golden on both sides.
3
Mash the avocado with lime juice, finely chopped onion, hot pepper, and salt.
4
Split the warm bakes and fill generously with the seasoned zaboca to serve.
Dominica Nature Isle home cooking.
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Roseau. A rainforest capital of callaloo and land crab.
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Dominica. The rainforest "Nature Isle" of callaloo and land crab.
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North America. A collision of Indigenous, colonial, and immigrant tables.
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Richard Moore & Kelsey Tucker
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