Salt pork with spinach rice and fish curry with mango: Keshia Sakarah’s recipes for Caribbean main courses

Keshia Sakarah’s bhaji rice with salted pork. Photograph: Rita Platts/The Guardian. Food styling: Ellie Mulligan. Prop styling: Louie Waller. Food styling assistant: Katie Smith.

Starting with the Bahamas in the north and ending with Trinidad and Tobago just above Venezuela, the islands of the Caribbean are particularly unique because they have been influenced by different communities from across the world, from Africa, India, China, Syria, Lebanon and beyond. All of which helps make our cuisine so eclectic, yet somehow also so similar right across the culinary culture.

Bhaji rice with salted pork (pictured top)