Hard food is a dish made with ground provisions, including boiled green bananas, yams, plantains, potatoes, pumpkins, roots, and dumplings. The items are boiled in saltwater. After that, they are used as a side dish or cooked in soups and stews.
Hard food is often served for breakfast but can also be eaten as a side with ackee and saltfish, callaloo, fish stew, curry chicken, and curry goat.