About Allspice in Our Online Spice Shop
Known as Jamaican Pepper, this Caribbean flavor export can be found in bulk online at Slofoodgroup. Our Allspice comes directly from central American Guatemala. Guatemala, is home to lush rain forests, volcanoes, and mountainous countryside that grows amazing ingredients like allspices, green cardamom pods, coffee, dried black limes, chiles and more.
What is Allspice: Is it a Blend of Spices
How to use Allspice in your kitchen
Facts About Our Allspice
Allspice, often mistaken for a blend of spices, is a single spice derived from the dried berries of the Pimenta dioica tree. This remarkable spice is celebrated for its unique combination of flavors, which resemble cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves all rolled into one. The round and dark tan to brown berries pack a unique aromatic twist that make them a great substitute other spices or contribute independently to a dish, baked goods or pickled products. Contrary to its name, allspice is not a mix of different spices. It is the dried, unripe berry of the Pimenta dioica tree, a species native to the Caribbean and Central America. The name "allspice" was coined by English explorers who thought the spice tasted like a blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
The easiest way to use allspice is to simply toss it whole into a liquid. This could be a pickling that uses other ingredients like star anise, clove, juniper berries, bay leaf, cinnamon, ginger etc. The next way is to grind your allspice fresh and use in rubs, flavored salts, marinades and even baked goods. Using allspice is really quite easy and the best part is it can be used in unison with other ingredients or by itself in place of others spices. Allspice can often be substituted in place of similar ingredients if you do not have them handy. Next time try using allspice in place of clove or even nutmeg. You may just like what you get even better than the original recipe!
What you can do with allspice berries is endless and depending on your culture, this might have some influence. In the Middle East, allspice is used in Levent to flavor stews, meats, even tomato sauce. In European cuisines it is used for pickling, curry, and sausages. In Jamaican and Caribbean cookery, allspice is an essential ingredient in Jerk seasoning. In Caribbean cuisine, it is a key ingredient in the famous Jamaican jerk seasoning, used to flavor meats such as chicken and pork. Middle Eastern cooking often incorporates allspice into spice blends like baharat, which is used in kebabs and stews. In Eastern Europe, allspice is frequently found in sausages and pickling spices.
We recommend you use allspice in teas, spices rubs, pie seasoning, flavored sugars, pickling even frozen custards. Its an amazing ingredient that goes well with the likes of clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, and more.
Slofoodgroup Allspice is Grown using traditional and natural practices of sustainable farming and a proud product of Guatemala, a mountainous Central American country. Guatemala is well known for its lush landscape and rich history in agricultural.
- Aromatic, pungent pimenta peppers that are uniform in a brown to light brown color with an aroma that is a mixture of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and even peppercorns
- Dried allspice berries are dark tan to brown in color and have an round shape about the size of one third of a marble +/-
- Backed by our satisfaction guarantee our allspice berries and other ingredients aim to please
- Kosher Certified by EarthKosher
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- Ground cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg are great substitutes for allspice.
- Also known as Jamaica pepper, allspice is a dried berry that comes from the Pimenta dioica tree.
- Allspice is packed with flavor and has tastes similar to a combination of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- You can buy allspice online directly from our website.
- Allspice is used for rubs, flavored salts, marinades and even baked goods. We recommend you use allspice in teas, spice rubs, pie seasoning, flavored sugars and even frozen custards.
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