# The best Surinamese dishes

Pom, roti, moksi alesi, peanut soup and bara: the Creole, Hindustani, Javanese and Chinese flavours of Suriname.

- 18 votes · 20 items
- Nov 14, 2021 · sophie_saucy
- https://even.best/en/l/3430/the-best-surinamese-dishes

## Top 20

1. **Pom** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Creole-Jewish oven dish of tayer root and chicken, the party dish.
2. **Roti** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Hindustani flatbread with chicken, potato and vegetable masala.
3. **Peanut soup** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Peanut soup with rice or tom tom cassava balls.
4. **Moksi alesi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Creole yellow rice with meat, fish and vegetables.
5. **Bara** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hindustani fried dough ring spiced with cumin and garlic.
6. **Moksi meti** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Plate of mixed Chinese roast meats.
7. **Nasi goreng** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Javanese fried rice.
8. **Bami** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Javanese fried noodles.
9. **Beans and rice** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Brown beans with rice, Jewish-Creole.
10. **Bakabana** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Battered fried plantain.
11. **Pastei** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Creole chicken and vegetable pie.
12. **Afingi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Soup with cassava balls and peccary meat, a Maroon dish.
13. **Shaved ice** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Shaved ice with syrup from a street cart.
14. **Chow mein** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Surinamese chow mein.
15. **Berkat** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Javanese festive parcel of rice, noodles, serundeng and chicken in banana leaf.
16. **Peanut rice** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rice cooked in coconut milk and peanut butter, a Maroon dish.
17. **Fiadoe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jewish cinnamon fruit cake with raisins, almonds and rum.
18. **Dawet** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Javanese pink coconut milk drink.
19. **Telo with salt fish** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Fried cassava with stewed salt cod.
20. **Cassava pone** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Cake of grated cassava and coconut.

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