Jamaican Hot Sauces
A Jamaican-style hot sauce, often jerk sauce, is characterized by its fiery heat derived from Scotch Bonnet peppers, along with a complex flavor profile that includes sweet, tangy, and aromatic notes from ingredients like allspice, lime juice, and vinegar. Some recipes incorporate ingredients like brown sugar or pineapple juice for a touch of sweetness. Lime juice adds a fresh, citrusy element.
One popular hot sauce brand, Matouk, ingredient lists:
Matouk's (New) Soca Hot Sauce
From down in Trinidad and Tobago comes this scorching puree of blazing peppers. Matouk's Soca Hot Sauce is seriously hot, thanks to the aged, pickled scotch bonnet peppers that are the main ingredient in this thick and flavorful hot sauce. Matouk's Soca features the traditional mustard base and adds West Indian herbs plus cane sugar for authentic island flavor that complements the fiery heat from the scotch bonnet peppers.
Ingredients: Aged pickled scotch bonnet peppers (pepper, vinegar, salt), water, cane sugar, prepared mustard (vinegar, mustard, salt, spices), salt, modified corn starch, West Indian herbs, onion powder, garlic powder, potassium sorbate (as a preservative), celery seed, xanthan gum, soybean oil.
Matouk's Salsa Picante Hot Pepper Sauce
A traditional Caribbean-style sauce with a kick. The salsa picante is a great table sauce.
Aged pickled Scotch Bonnet peppers, vinegar, mustard, onion powder, spices and soybean oil.Matouk's West Indian Salsa Picante Hot Sauce
A great, but milder version of the Trinidad and Tobago favorites with a wonderful tropical flavor.
Papaya, aged pickled Scotch Bonnet peppers, vinegar, salt, mustard, onion powder and garlic powder.
Matouk's Hot Calypso Hot Sauce
One of our favorites due to it's truly unique flavor which is inspired by the rhythm of the Caribbean music. Calypso rhythms can be traced back to the arrival of the first African slaves brought to work in the sugar plantations of Trinidad. Forbidden to talk to each other, and robbed of all links to family and home, the African slaves began to sing songs. They used calypso, which can be traced back to West African Kaiso, as a means of communication and to mock the slave masters. These songs helped to unite the slaves and so ingrained a rich culture and tradition amongst the people of the Caribbean.
Ingredients: Pickled Scotch Bonnet, Mustard, Cane Sugar, Onion, Garlic, Celery Seed.
Jamaican Hot Sauce
from https://www.foodandwine.com/
Scotch bonnets and scallions are blended with allspice and dark brown sugar in this vinegary hot sauce that's an ideal companion to beef patties. This is hot, hot sauce.
12 ounces red, orange or yellow Scotch bonnet peppers
1 bunch scallion whites, trimmed
2 1/4 cups white distilled vinegar
2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
Kosher salt
In a food processor, pulse the chiles and scallion whites until finely chopped.
In a medium saucepan, bring the vinegar, brown sugar, allspice and 2 tablespoons salt to a simmer, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Add the chile mixture to the saucepan and bring to a simmer. Simmer 1 minute then remove from the heat and let cool to warm. Hot sauce keeps in jars, chilled.
Inner Beauty Hot Sauce Clone
from
Inner Beauty Hot Sauce is a Caribbean style hot sauce made in the USA.
Ingredients: Mustard, distilled vinegar, scotch bonnet peppers, papaya juice, pineapple juice, sugar, orange juice, mango, vegetable oil, honey, molasses, spices
2 cups Scotch Bonnet peppers (no stem)
1 ripe mango
2/3 cup inexpensive yellow mustard
1/3 cup orange juice
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon ground curry
1 teaspoon ground pepper
2 teaspoons salt
Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
