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RECIPE FOR JERK SAUCE

If you love Jamaican food, then you'll love this incredibly delicious and flavourful recipe for Jerk Sauce! It's the only one you're ever going to need and so good, you'll want to use it on more than just chicken!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 4 Cups

Ingredients

  • 6 Scotch Bonnet Peppers* sliced with the seeds kept in
  • 3 Onions chopped
  • 8 Cloves Garlic minced
  • 1 cup Orange Juice
  • 1 cup White Vinegar
  • ½ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • ½ cup Soy Sauce
  • 2 tbsp Dried Thyme
  • 2 tbsp Allspice
  • 2 tbsp Sugar
  • 2 tbsp Salt
  • 2 tsp Black Pepper
  • 2 tsp Cinnamon
  • 2 tsp Nutmeg
  • 2 tsp Ground Ginger
  • Juice of 1 Lime

Instructions

  • Coarsely chop the scotch bonnet peppers, onions, and garlic. Don't worry about going too fine as the food processor will take care of that.
    cutting board with chopped onions, garlic, habaneros and a half of a lime with a big knife
  • Add all the ingredients into a high speed blender or food processor, working batches if you have to.
    base of a food processor with onions, spices, garlic and habaneros
  • Process until mostly smooth and no big chunks remain.
    base of a food processor with a brown marinade, 2 orange habaneros in the background

Notes

If scotch bonnet peppers are hard to find, use habanero peppers instead. Or, for a milder jerk sauce, use jalapeños.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Cup | Calories: 393kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 20g | Sodium: 5120mg | Potassium: 463mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 371IU | Vitamin C: 63mg | Calcium: 126mg | Iron: 5mg
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