How To Make Jerk Sauce
Jerk sauce hails from Jamaica, and is an important component of Jamaican cuisine. The sauce is flavorful and really hits you with its signature spice.
Ingredients
- ½ cup ground allspice
- ½ cup brown sugar, packed
- 2 bunches scallions, trimmed and roughly chopped
- 8 garlic cloves
- 6 scotch bonnet peppers, or habanero, seeded and cored; leave some seeds in for more heat
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp dried thyme, (or 2 tbsp fresh thyme leaves)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp kosher salt, or more to taste
- 1 tsp ground black pepper, or more to taste
Instructions
- Gather the ingredients.
- Add the allspice berries, brown sugar, scallions, garlic cloves, Scotch bonnet peppers, soy sauce, thyme, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and pepper to a food processor or a blender.
- Process until smooth.
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Use to marinate the meat of choice.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 9g
- :
- Calcium: 55mg
- Calories: 57kcal
- Carbohydrates: 14g
- Fat: 1g
- Fiber: 2g
- Iron: 1mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 1g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g
- Potassium: 108mg
- Protein: 1g
- Saturated Fat: 1g
- Sodium: 369mg
- Vitamin A: 127IU
- Vitamin C: 11mg
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