Caribbean Green Seasoning
The Quirky Foodster Team
Ingredients
Method
- Blend all fresh ingredients together into a coarse paste.
- Not applicable; a fresh-blended wet seasoning.
Origin: Broadly across the English-speaking Caribbean, with particularly strong association to Trinidad.
Use: A foundational marinade and cooking base for a very wide range of Caribbean dishes, applied to meat and fish well ahead of cooking.
Classic Dishes: Used across virtually the entire range of Caribbean savory cooking as a foundational flavor base, functionally similar to Latin American sofrito or Senegal’s nokoss.
Storage: Keeps 1-2 weeks refrigerated, or several months frozen in portions.
Variations: Closely related to Trinidad Green Seasoning, often considered the most prominent and internationally recognized specific regional expression of this broader Caribbean tradition.
Substitutions: A simplified cilantro, garlic, thyme, and pepper paste.
- Culantro
- cilantro
- thyme
- garlic
- onion
- bell pepper
- and scotch bonnet or other chile
- blended into a wet green paste
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