About the dish
Conch salad is the most Bahamian of dishes. The conch is a large sea snail with a pink shell, and its firm white meat is finely diced and mixed with onion, green pepper, tomato and hot chilli, then drenched in lime and sour orange juice. The acid firms up the flesh much as in ceviche, leaving it pleasantly springy, slightly crunchy and sweet-tasting of the sea. The salad is made just before serving, usually at waterside stalls where vendors knock the conch out of its shell and dice it in front of their customers. A tropical version adds mango or pineapple. It is eaten with crackers or straight from the cup.
Main ingredients
- conch meat
- lime
- sour orange
- onion
- green pepper
- tomato
- hot chilli
Bahamas: Made in front of customers at waterside stalls, for instance at Arawak Cay in Nassau.
