Explore easy ways to use these herbs and spices for delicious Caribbean food.

Jamaican Spices

• bayleaf.
• cassia.
• cinnamon (gif)
• clove.
• escallion.
• garlic.
• ginger.
• nutmeg (mace)

11 Ingredients You Will Find in a Jamaican Kitchen

• Pimento. Dried pimento berries look like large dark peppercorns and are a staple of jerk cooking.
• Ackee. The other half, along with saltfish, of Jamaica’s national dish.
• Tamarind.
• Scotch Bonnet.
• Root Ginger.

• Thyme. McCormick’s pure thyme is an essential and versatile herb.
• Cumin. Cumin is a part of many spices blends across the Caribbean.
• Allspice.
• Red Pepper.
• Cinnamon.
• Nutmeg.
• Ginger.
• Turmeric.

1 – teaspoon ground allspice. 1 – teaspoon ground coriander. 1/2 – teaspoon cinnamon. 1/2 – teaspoon garlic salt. 1/4 – teaspoon ground cayenne pepper.

Jamaican all-purpose seasoning is a classic Caribbean spice blend — a seasoning bright with fiery chilli peppers, complex all-spice and thyme. Rub into chicken pieces for jerk flavours, or use in the traditional ‘brown stew chicken’, whose bland name disguises its rich spiced flavours and heritage.

Allspice combines the flavors of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and pepper. It can be used for many purposes that those warm spices are used, or as a substitute for them.

The main difference is how these two spices are made. Allspice comes from the dried berries of its tree. Whereas 5 spice has a Chinese background containing 5 different spices. Allspice is found in both whole and powder form, whereas 5 spice is made by making the powdered form of all the spices.

Although there’s no true substitute for real allspice, if you’re in a pinch you can approximate its flavor by blending together the three spices it tastes it tastes most like: cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

McCormick Gourmet Organic Ground Allspice adds delicious warm notes of nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon to both sweet and savory dishes. Allspice is not a spice blend but comes from the cured, unripe berries of a tropical evergreen tree found in the West Indies and Central America.

Whisk 3½ teaspoons ground cinnamon, 1¼ teaspoons ground nutmeg and a pinch of ground cloves, then use as a 1:1 replacement for ground allspice in a recipe.

Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world.

These two spices dominate the flavor of the most common five-spice blends and can make an acceptable substitute on their own. If you feel that the aftertaste of star anise is too bitter for your liking, consider replacing it with allspice as some cooks consider it a sweeter spice.

Unlike Allspice, which is a single spice, Mixed Spice is a blend of several spices, including Cinnamon, Coriander Seed, Caraway, Nutmeg, Ginger and Cloves. Allspice has a strong flavour and aroma, similar to a mixture of Nutmeg, Cloves and Cinnamon. Mixed Spice has a warm, spicy and sweet flavour and aroma.

Other allspices include: the Japanese allspice (Chimonanthus praecox), native to eastern Asia and planted as an ornamental in England and the United States; the wild allspice, or spicebush (Lindera benzoin), a shrub of eastern North America, with aromatic berries, reputed to have been used as a substitute for true …

Mixed spice is much milder than Allspice, and although they are used in similar recipes, we don’t consider them to be interchangeable. For more details on the history, the plant and its processing and use, see The Spice & Herb Bible 3rd Edition.

Mixed spice typically contains: Cinnamon (or cassia) Nutmeg. Allspice….It may also contain, or commonly have added to it:

• Cloves.
• Ginger.
• Coriander (seed)
• Caraway.
• Cayenne pepper (historically)

Mace is a yellowish-brown spice that is derived from the dried lacy coating of the nutmeg seed. Available in ground form and as dried “blades,” it is often paired with other aromatic spices. It is commonly found in spice blends and baked goods, as well as savory dishes like soups, sauces, and poultry and fish recipes.

Mixed Spice is used in a variety of cakes, puddings, pies, breads and buns, cookies, pancakes, cupcakes, gingerbreads, and fruit salads. With the predominant flavor of cinnamon, it also makes a nice change to substitute this spice blend for anything calling for cinnamon for an added flavor boost.