the Haitian dialect, the dish draws its name from the small djon-djon black mushrooms that are native to the island. Djon-djon rice is very popular in Haiti, and remains nostalgically so among ...

The mushrooms turn the rice a dark brown or black — thus the Haitian Creole name diri djondjon, or black mushroom rice, that some call the dish. Some people also add blue crabs, shrimp or lobster.

Though affectionately dubbed “Haitian black rice” over the years due to its deep, dark color, chef Natacha Gomez argues that that name does a disservice to diri djon-djon. A visually striking ...

The dish features fried goat meat (called “Taso” in Haitian Creole) and black rice (“Diri Djon Djon”). The second is called “Bang Bang,” named after a popular song in Haiti ...

Sos pwa nwa is a stewy Haitian black bean sauce that combines beans ... Sos pwa nwa is most often eaten with white rice or mayi moulen, a thick and creamy cornmeal-based dish.

She talked him through recipes for Haitian specialties like griyo ... who come by for traditional dishes like djon djon, black rice that gets its color from a mushroom puree, and soup joumou ...

Indeed, a disproportionate number of the country’s dishes involve 20-step recipes, hours of work ... a heavy scoop of diri djon djon, Haitian black rice, which owes its color and much of ...

Among the smattering of islands in the Caribbean, Haitian culture stands alone and ... with a side of black rice and sweet plantains. (LM) I have a weakness for some great fall-off-the-bone ...