Meaning
A sweet Jamaican pastry of spiced, mashed ripe plantain folded into a half-moon of flaky dough and baked — the crust often tinted a giveaway pink. A favourite of the bakery, the school canteen, and the lunchtime shop, the plantain tart encloses its warm, sweet, spiced plantain filling in a crisp shell, and it is eaten as a snack or a treat. Homely and much-loved, it turns the everyday ripe plantain into a small baked indulgence.
Examples
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Buy a plantain tart from di bakery fi mi.
Buy a plantain tart from the bakery for me.
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Di plantain tart sweet an di crust flaky.
The plantain tart is sweet and the crust is flaky.
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She mek plantain tart wid ripe plantain an nutmeg.
She made plantain tarts with ripe plantain and nutmeg.
Origin
A local pastry using very ripe plantain as a sweet filling, in the family of Jamaican baked treats alongside gizzada and grater cake.
How it’s used
A common bakery pastry, distinct from the fruit itself; the pink-tinted crust is traditional.