
🇭🇹 HaitiCatalog recipe
Rice cooked jet-black in the soaking liquor of Haitian djon djon mushrooms — earthy, aromatic and reserved for occasions that matter.
For 6 servings.
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Steep the mushrooms in hot water 20 minutes, then squeeze and strain, keeping the black liquor.
💡 The liquor is the dish — the spent mushrooms give their all to it.
Sauté garlic, spring onion and thyme; add rice and coat.
Pour in the mushroom liquor plus water, add peas and the whole pepper, and season.
Cover and cook low 25 minutes; rest 10 before fluffing.
Serve black and proud, next to griot or poul an sos.
Djon djon mushrooms grow in northern Haiti and dye the rice a deep black while perfuming it. The dish signals celebration — weddings, baptisms, honored guests — and diaspora suitcases carry the dried mushrooms across the world.
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