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Pudding and Souse

Name: Pudding and Souse
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Barbados
Ingredients: 600g Pork Shoulder; 4 Lime; 1 Cucumber; 1 Onion; 1 Chili pepper; A pinch Parsley; 2 tsp Salt; 2 Sweet potato; A pinch Thyme; 3 Green Onion; 30g Butter; A pinch Black Pepper; 1.5L Water

Main Dish

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Lime-pickled pork paired with sweet potato pudding — Barbados's Saturday specialty.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pudding and souse is a traditional Barbadian Saturday dish combining souse — boiled pork marinated cold in a pickle of cucumber, onion, chili, and lime juice — with pudding, grated sweet potato mixed with spices and steamed. The pudding was once stuffed into pig intestines.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At midday on a Saturday in a Barbadian village eatery, pork in cold lime pickle and brown sweet potato pudding share a plate.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Pork Shoulder 600g
Lime 4
Cucumber 1
Onion 1
Chili pepper 1
Parsley A pinch
Salt 2 tsp
Sweet potato 2
Thyme A pinch
Green Onion 3
Butter 30g
Black Pepper A pinch
Water 1.5L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the pork in salted water for 1 1/2 hours, cool, and slice thinly.
Mix the lime juice, 200ml water, salt, sliced cucumber and onion, and chopped chili and parsley, add the pork, and chill in the fridge.
Grate the sweet potatoes and mix with melted butter, chopped green onion, thyme, salt, and pepper.
Put in an ovenproof dish, cover with foil, and steam 40 minutes.
Serve slices of pudding with the cold souse.

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