Bajan Pepper Sauce

Bajan pepper sauces, sparingly used, add the taste of Barbados to almost anything. Pepper lovers just can’t get enough of the stuff. In the 1950’s fresh horseradish was widely grown in Barbados and was amain ingredient in Bajan yellow pepper sauce. However, as the sauce became a commercial product, this wonderful ingredient faded out. This is an original old Bajan recipe. A hunk of cheddar cheese, some crackers, and a little bowl of this yellow sauce make a perfect snack to serve with drinks.

Ingredients

4oz/125g green topped spring onions

4-5 medium onions

12 very hot fresh peppers (bonnet) or

24 chili peppers

1/2oz/15g fresh turmeric or 1 teaspoon powdered turmeric

2 tablespoons English hot mustard

1/4 cup 1oz/30g salt

2 1/2 cups vinegar

6 cloves garlic

1lb/500g grated fresh horseradish root or 1 tablespoon horseradish powder (optional)

3 dozen peeled pearl onions (optional)

Method

  1. Wash, peel and coarsely chop the spring onion and onions. Remove the stems from the peppers and for a less hot pepper sauce, remove the seeds. Peel the garlic.
  2. Place the onions, turmeric, mustard, salt, peppers, garlic and 1/2 cup vinegar in a food processor and process for a few minutes.When processing be careful to wrap a kitchen towel around the lid as some processors spew when a thin liquid is processed.
  3. Add 2 cups vinegar, the grated horseradish and whole pearl onions. (optional)
  4. Store in clean bottles.