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Surinamese heri heri

Boiled roots with salt fish

Heri heri is one of the oldest dishes in Suriname, rooted in the plantation era and still cooked by Afro-Surinamese families around Paramaribo, especially on Keti Koti (1 July), the day the end of slavery is remembered. It is plain, filling food: boiled cassava, plantain, sweet potato and tayer, with salted fish fried with onion, tomato and pepper, and a boiled egg on the side. The fish is soaked to remove excess salt, always in the fridge. People often boil all the roots together, so the plantain turns mushy while the cassava is still hard; add them in stages. Chef's tip: keep a little of the onion and tomato oil from the fish pan and spoon it over the roots.

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