Middle Quarters Pepper Shrimp
Whole shrimp cooked hard with scotch bonnet and salt until stained red and addictive.
- Préparation
- 15 min
- Cuisson
- 15 min
- Total
- 30 min
- Pour
- 4
- Difficulté
- Facile
- Type
- En-cas
Ingrédients
- Whole shrimp700 g
- Garlic5 cloves
- Thyme4 sprigs
- Salt2 tbsp
Préparation
- 1
Boil the shrimp briefly in heavily salted water with the peppers and thyme.
- 2
Drain, then return to the pan with garlic and a little oil.
- 3
Cook hard for 5 minutes until the shells colour deeply.
Nutrition
Valeurs par portion · Calculées
- calories
- 198 kcal
- protéines
- 32 g
- glucides
- 3 g
- lipides
- 6 g
- fibres
- 0.6 g
- sucres
- 1 g
- sodium
- 1480 mg
Scotch Bonnet
Caribbean PantryThe soul of Caribbean heat: a lantern-shaped pepper whose perfume matters as much as its fire.
- Origine
- Amazon basin, carried through the Antilles by Arawak and Taíno peoples
- Saveur
- Fruity, apricot-like sweetness followed by a slow, blooming heat
- Calories / 100 g
- 40 kcal
- Saisonnalité
- Year-round, peak July to November
L'histoire de cet ingrédient
Named for its resemblance to a Tam o' Shanter bonnet, the Scotch bonnet travelled from the Amazon basin through the Antilles long before Columbus. It became the signature of Jamaican jerk pits, Haitian pikliz jars and Trinidadian pepper sauces — a pepper used less for punishment than for perfume, always paired with allspice, thyme and citrus.
Cet ingrédient compte pour eux
André Clarke
Jamaica · Pimento-wood fire cooking
“My grandmother judged a pepper by its smell, never its heat.”
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Marie-Lourdes Jean
Haiti · Epis and Haitian slow cooking
“Pikliz taught me that heat is patience, not violence.”
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Bahamas · Conch and coastal cooking
“You hear a good conch salad before you taste it.”
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