Aunt May's Bajan Pepper Sauce 340 g

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Sugar: This adds ever so slight a hint of sweetness and also tones down the spice a touch. You can use cane sugar, brown sugar or coconut sugar. If you would rather keep this recipe no sugar added, you can certainly omit if need be. Put the turmeric in a food processor or blender and process until almost smooth. Add a little vinegar to help it along if you need to. Add the onions, and process until finely chopped. Add the chillies, repeat. Pour the mixture into a large bowl and then add the vinegar, sugar and mustard. You want to keep it a little coarse. But when you go to buy it for the first time, the sheer number of choices can be pretty overwhelming. How do you know which one tastes the best, or which one is the best for the price? It didn’t take long before I had it in my head that I wanted to do a taste test to find my favorite. Whilst there are many ready-done brands of pepper sauce available commercially, flavour, intensity and consistency can vary widely. Here's a suggestion! Cook up your own homemade version to find just the right balance of delish for your palate! My mother has been making this sauce now for a couple of years and I can honestly say it’s good with everything.

white flavourless vinegar, spirit vinegar would be ideal (again, available in Chinese shops but a flavourless white vinegar will do, just don’t use malt vinegar) Open windows & turn ventilation on because the fumes from the peppers will burn your eyes and throat, and you don’t want that!Scotch bonnet or habanero chiles: Hot scotch bonnet peppers and habanero peppers are closely related therefore either can be used. If you want to be authentic to the Caribbean, then go with the scotch bonnet. Bajan hot pepper sauce is served with everything in Barbados. Recipes and preferences vary and like Bajan Seasoning each cook or family has their own “secret” recipe. Windmill Bajan Hot Pepper Sauce. It’s an excellent combination of heat and flavour. Taste and if too hot, reduce the heat by adding vinegar with some mustard to offset it. Bit by bit, tasting as you go. Store in sterilised jars or bottles. It will keep out the fridge as the vinegar acts as a preservative. Non-chlorinated water and non-iodized salt: These are essential for creating a healthy brine that allows fermentation to occur. This sauce has several variation changing from kitchen to kitchen and home to home. However our version is simple with limited ingredients to let the peppers shine. Variations include added culantro (Shado Beni, Chandon Beni), ginger, or rum however we really prefer the “simple is best” approach in this particular sauce.

While speaking to people in Barbados, there seemed to be as many people who agree on cooking this sauce as there were people who said to leave it raw. I left it raw as I find that cooking takes away some of the heat of the sauce and since I used fresh turmeric, I wanted to maintain most of it’s health benefits. I must mention that the use of turmeric in not necessarily traditional to Bajan pepper sauce, but since I’m not a huge fan of mustard, I went this route ( we found Bajan pepper sauces to have strong mustard undertones). If you prefer to cook this hot sauce, bring it to a boil and immediately reduce it to a gentle simmer for 5-10 minutes. British Ship: Scottish Star Torpedoed – 19th February 1942 has been updated with a section on Michael Doyle AB. While we would be more likely to call these fritters, real Bajan fish cakes are a combo of seasonings, flour, baking powder and salt cod mixed into a batter and fried in oil. Here is an alternative Bajan hot pepper sauce recipe. This is Thelma’s Bajan hot pepper sauce recipe. This recipe is taken from the Eat Like a Girl blog by Niamh. Thelma’s Bajan pepper sauce recipe is composed of turmeric for colour, chillies for heat, onions for consistency, vinegar thins it out and preserves it, mustard gives it an extra bass note and helps with the consistency too and a little brown sugar balances it.Barbados-style hot sauce, also known as Bajan pepper sauce, is a hot sauce staple on the island known as Barbados in the Caribbean. Scotch bonnets, mustard and turmeric are almost always in a good Bajan hot sauce. Ingredient Notes If you cannot readily get any of the above, here is Errol Barrow’s Bajan hot pepper sauce recipe. The Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow, PC, QC the first PM of Barbados. Rainfall and climate during growth will affect the capsaicin levels in our peppers. Gitts Bajan Pepper Sauce will always range from 100,000 - 350,000 on the Scoville Scale. Obviously, no two person’s taste buds are the same, so I pulled my partner Reuben in so we could provide a more comprehensive review of each sauce.

Garlic: Fresh cloves of garlic combined with a few other spices, really complement the horseradish tone in this recipe. Doctor Kendal A. Lee was a Trinidadian and a dentist. Sadly, Kendal Lee died only a few weeks after Errol Barrow in 1987. Wear a mask if you’re working with super hots, or grab a bandana and wrap around your face, pretend you’re some warrior Once fermentation is complete, strain the ingredients over a large bowl, reserving some of the brine.Make a salad dressing by mixing one part bajan pepper sauce with one part olive oil and one part mayo. Items such as roti, Bajan fish cakes, pudding and souse, and cou cou, are common on many menus, and if you find yourself in the Caribbean I highly recommend trying them out. It may be different from what you are used to, but the flavors will surprise you! Bajan chilli pepper sauce, or Bajan pepper sauce, is a spicy and tangy sauce commonly used as a dipping sauce or as a condiment. Typically, meat and seafood are dipped in it, to add some extra spice. While there are many variations of the sauce throughout the world, it is mainly made in the eastern part of the island of Barbados, which is called the Bajan Coast. Bajan pepper sauce is a combination of raw local peppers, vinegar, onion and other spices. It rises in popularity during the summer months when we can use it as a dip for fruits, vegetables, and even meat. It is a simple condiment to make at home and is cheap, healthy, and easy. This recipe is the perfect introduction to homemade Bajan pepper sauce.