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This is a great sauce but needs to ne used sparingly. Makes around 3 to 4 cups worth. Make sure you wear disposable gloves when making this. Ingredients 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 2 onions, diced 2 ripe mangoes or pawpaw (papayas), skinned, seeded, and diced to 1/2 inch 6 carrots, diced 2 cho-cho squashes, peeled and diced 12 allspice berries 10 whole black peppercorns 4 thyme sprigs 1 ounce ginger root, finely diced 1/2 cup sugar 8 to 12 Scotch bonnets 1/4 cup cane or cider vinegar Method In a non-reactive pot, heat the oil. Sauce the onions until translucent. Add the mangoes, carrots, squash, allspice, peppercorns, thyme and ginger. Sasute for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Add the sugar and the Scotch Bonnets. When the sugar has become syrupy, add the vinegar, and cook until the carrots are soft, about 5 to 10 minutes. Puree the mixture in a blender and strain it. Store it in a tighly closed bottle in the refrigerator.
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