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Jamaican Gravy (XXX Hot Sauce)

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Thought you guys would enjoy this. I got this recipe through great effort, so I thought I would make it easier for everyone else. All ingredients can be adjusted to your personal taste. Enjoy!

Jamaican Gravy

Find a rum bottle with a bit of rum in the bottle. Preferably dark rum. Stuff this in:
2 TBSP allspice berries
2 cups habanero peppers, whole
~1/2 cup Sugar/honey to taste
6 Cloves Garlic
2 shallots (Stuff'em Bigboy)
20 sprigs thyme
~1/4 cup soy sauce to gravy color.

Boil enough white vinegar to fill the bottle. Add while still piping hot. (Put bottle in the sink just in case).
Fill to the very top!

Cap tight and allow to sit in a dark place for one month.
Good on anything! Especially jerk chicken.


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Ohhhhhhh that sounds very nice! I have a bottle of Goslings that's about to have just enough left in it to refill with this!


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joemirando said:
Mouth watering already. All I've got at the moment is dried habaneros. Will they do? Of course, I'll have to figure out how big they were before they were dried and adjust.

How big a bottle are we talking about? 750ml?
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Yes, this is for a 750 ml batch.

I guess dried habs would work. Never tried it. I would guess to use a cup.


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I make pique - super basic version of this with just chilies and cider vinegar - every summer with my leftover chilies, this sounds way better.
 
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Keep everything in the bottle. Just add more vinegar until it gets bland. I generally refrigerate it but it's not really necessary.


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I figure I will just make a few pinpricks in the cap after a month and use it like that. Maybe I can also get a smaller vinegar bottle like Laysons or whatever and transfer it there.

How the heck do you stuff a shallot into a rum bottle??? You got to at least cut it in half or fourths!

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You suck it up and be a man. That's how.

Edit: Fine. You can cut the damn shallot. I'm just bustin balls like I do my friends. It is personal. You know what should follow this statement.
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loveofrose said:
Jamaican Gravy

Find a rum bottle with a bit of rum in the bottle. Preferably dark rum. Stuff this in:
2 TBSP allspice berries
2 cups habanero peppers, whole
~1/2 cup Sugar/honey to taste
6 Cloves Garlic
2 shallots (Stuff'em Bigboy)
20 sprigs thyme
~1/4 cup soy sauce to gravy color.
Click to expand...

I finally got around to making up a batch of this. There are only 2 things I 'changed'. One was a screw-up, one was intentional.
  1. I added 1/4 cup dark brown sugar instead of 1/2 cup (the screw-up)
  2. In addition to about 1.25 cups of cut habaneros, I added 2 dried chipotles. (the intentional).

I didn't have any spiced rum, so the white rum I had at hand got the brown sugar to help it out. I didn't use much rum anyway (maybe an ounce and a half).

Since the habaneros and chipotles are dry, they're going to suck up some of the vinegar. Once the level drops, I'll draw some out, dissolve another 1/4 cup of brown sugar and add it in. It shouldn't take more than a couple of days. If it doesn't drop enough to accommodate the extra sugar, I'll just keep the excess out and use it.

I'm already thinking of waiting the month, draining the aged gravy out into another 750ml bottle, adding more brown sugar and hot vinegar, and letting it sit for another month, draining that and adding it to the first batch (IF there's any left by that time). From there, an empty soy sauce bottle will serve as my condiment dispenser.

They're wrong, by the way. VARIETY is not the spice of life, SPICE is the spice of life! ;)

Thanks for the recipe!

Joe
 
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You need a dish to go with that gravy. Enjoy!

Jamaican Rice and "Peas" (beans)

1 cup dried red kidney beans, soaked overnight in 3 cups of water
4 cups water
1/2 pound smoked pork hocks, tails, or bacon
4 cloves garlic, smashed
4 scallions, crushed*
2 sprigs fresh thyme
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
3 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 cans Coconut Milk
2 1/2 cups long grain rice, washed and drained

Soak beans overnight in 3 cups of water.
Place the beans, along with the soaking liquid plus 4 cups of additional water into a large heavy pot or dutch oven.
Add the pork hock and garlic and scallions, thyme, allspice, salt, and bring to a boil over high heat.
Cover the pot, reduce heat to a simmer, and cook until beans are just tender, about 1 hour.
Add the coconut milk.
Stir in the rice and, once the mixture has returned to a boil, stir, reduce the heat to low, cover and cook for 20 to 30 minutes, or until the rice is tender and has absorbed all of the liquid.
Allow to sit for 15 minutes before serving.

Serve with copious amounts of Jamacian gravy.

**It is traditional to "crush" scallions by placing them on a cutting board and lightly tapping them with the handle of a knife.
They can then be removed before serving but still impart their wonderful flavor to the rice and peas.


In progress:
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Looks like hell, tastes like heaven.
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Oh, I've got plenty of things to use this liquid fire on, but thank you kindly for the recipe! I make a killer Rice 'n Beans, and I'm already envisioning slathering this stuff on pork chops, chicken of any kind, maybe even hamburgers. A couple of hours after mixing this up, I put a fingertip in and tasted it. I swear, I could feel blisters forming on my lips. Now, I'm one of those guys who could wash down Shiracha sauce with a cup of Frank's Red Hot or Tobasco. THIS stuff is NUCLEAR! I can't wait until its a month old and I can start using it.

Thanks again for both recipes!

Joe
 
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I tried a dab of this on some pork the other night. The heat was there, but not at all like it was with the first taste on the tip of the finger. I think that once this is done leaching the good stuff out of the peppers and alspice, etc., I'll thicken it up a bit with xanthan gum.

Just from the taste I got on the pork, I'll bet this'd be killer on fish!

Thanks again for the recipe!

Joe
 
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I just made another batch of this, with some modifications.

I added more dried habaneros, more dried chipotles (I just love that smokey hickory flavor), more garlic (about 10 cloves instead of 6), more thyme (about 30 sprigs), more sugar (one cup of dark brown sugar instead of the 'target' 1/2 cup of white sugar), about 1/2 cup of white rum (its all I had, and I mixed it with the brown sugar and heated it in the microwave to dissolve the brown sugar) and no soy sauce (I didn't like the flavor it added).

The shallots, allspice and vinegar remain the same.

For anyone who's interested, after draining the gravy out of the 750ml bottle, it yields about 3/4 of a bottle. It's quite thin, so I MAY thicken it up a little with xanthan gum. Not a lot, just so that its almost the consistency of tobasco sauce. Otherwise its spicy and, once aged for a month, not what I'd call "too hot".

I still think this'd be great on a nice swordfish steak!


Thanks again for the recipe for this, and for the rice n peas! THAT'S next on my list!

Joe
 
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