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Sherlie's Kitchen – 263 Court St., Brockton Sherlie's Kitchen, on the east side of Brockton near the BAT Center, serves Haitian food the way the people know best: fried, steamed, and boiled.
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It’s served with fried plantains. Potato salads – Creamy potato salad with peas, peppers and other good veggies. You get a scoop of white and a scoop of pink that includes beets.
The mother-daughter duo behind a Spring Branch restaurant serves Haitian home cooking with heart and family tradition.
Thankfully, I took comfort in knowing that my grandmother stood as a resource to teach me. Fried plantains show up on every occasion in our community, with a variety of dishes.
Both come with diri djon djon (a traditional Haitian black mushroom rice), two fried plantains and a side salad. Griot is fried pork shoulder. Ours was tender if a tad fatty.
Under a tent overhang, Mirlande Daniel, owner of Norwich-based Mommy’s Delicious Food restaurant, set up serving trays filled with black rice, fried plantains and jerk chicken.
Popular Haitian dishes include fried pork (griot), turkey (kodenn), beef (tassot), and goat (cabrit), served with rice, beans, plantains, and pikliz (a spicy pickled vegetable coleslaw).