Bajan Seasoning
The Quirky Foodster Team
About 2 cups paste
Servings
Ingredients
Method
- Blend all fresh ingredients into a paste.
- Not applicable.
Origin: Barbados (‘Bajan’ being the demonym for Barbadian).
Use: A foundational marinade base for Barbadian cooking, applied to meat and fish before cooking.
Classic Dishes: Used broadly across Barbadian savory cooking, notably in the seasoning of flying fish, Barbados’s national dish fish.
Storage: Keeps 1-2 weeks refrigerated, or several months frozen in portions.
Variations: A specific island’s regional expression within the broader Caribbean green seasoning family, distinguished primarily by its particular herb ratio rather than a fundamentally different structure.
Substitutions: A simplified cilantro, garlic, thyme, and pepper paste. Caribbean green seasoning as a direct substitute.
- Similar wet-herb-paste structure to Caribbean green seasoning — onion
- garlic
- chive
- thyme
- marjoram
- parsley
- and scotch bonnet or other chile — but with a Barbadian-specific herb ratio
- notably including marjoram more prominently than some neighboring islands' versions
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