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Bajan Pepper Sauce

Name: Bajan Pepper Sauce
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Barbados
Ingredients: 10 Chili pepper; 4 tbsp Mustard; 1 tsp Turmeric; 1/2 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 100ml Vinegar; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Sugar

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐

Yellow hot sauce of chilies, mustard, and turmeric — on every Barbadian table.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bajan pepper sauce is the yellow chili sauce essential to the Barbadian table, made by combining hot chilies such as Scotch bonnets with mustard, turmeric, onion, and vinegar. The tang of mustard and vivid yellow are its hallmarks, and it goes on everything — fish, cutters, soups. Every household has its own prized recipe.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Barbadian kitchen shelf, jars of homemade yellow sauce are lined up and spooned over fried fish on the table.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

Chili pepper 10
Mustard 4 tbsp
Turmeric 1 tsp
Onion 1/2
Garlic 2 cloves
Vinegar 100ml
Salt 1 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Remove the chili stems (wear gloves).
Roughly chop the onion and garlic.
Blend all the ingredients until smooth.
Simmer in a small pot for 5 minutes.
Cool, put in a clean jar, and store in the fridge.

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