Meaning
A warm, creamy breakfast porridge made from ground roasted peanuts blended with cornmeal or flour, milk, sugar, vanilla, and grated nutmeg. Rich, nutty, and filling, it is a favourite Jamaican morning meal, sold steaming from the porridge vendor's flask on the street and made at home to start the day well. It belongs with cornmeal, hominy, and green-banana porridge in the beloved family of Jamaican porridges, and a good cup of peanut porridge is warm, sustaining comfort food that carries you through a long morning.
Examples
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A cup a peanut porridge fill yuh up fi di whole mawnin.
A cup of peanut porridge fills you up for the whole morning.
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Di vendor sell peanut porridge hot inna di mawnin.
The vendor sells hot peanut porridge in the morning.
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She sweeten di peanut porridge wid condensed milk.
She sweetened the peanut porridge with condensed milk.
Origin
One of several Jamaican breakfast porridges (cornmeal, hominy, banana, peanut) — this one built on ground roasted peanuts for a rich, nutty base.
How it’s used
A staple breakfast porridge, one of a family that includes cornmeal and hominy porridge.