Barbados Pepperpot
A Barbados dinner made with beef. Ready in about 40 minutes. Difficulty: medium.
- 15 minPrep (about)
- 25 minCook (about)
- 40 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- MediumDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredients
- 1 ½ lb oxtail
- 1 ½ lb beef Shopping tip: Chuck roast or stew beef, cut in cubes.
Fresh & other
- 2 pigs trotters
- Splash lime juice
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 scotch bonnets Shopping tip: Very hot. Habanero is the same heat and easier to find.
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves
- Pinch sugar
- Sprinkling basil Shopping tip: Fresh basil leaves, not dried.
- Sprinkling thyme Shopping tip: Fresh sprigs or dried both work (1 tsp dried = 1 tbsp fresh).
Spices & seasonings (2): cinnamon stick, salt
- 1 cinnamon stick
- Pinch salt
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Wash the stewing steak.
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Place it in your mixing bowl using the lemon or lime juice.
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Set that to one side.
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While you slice the garlic in tiny slices.
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Slice the onion.
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Chop the basil and thyme.
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Be very careful when you slice your scotch bonnet peppers.
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You want these in fine bits, which you can either do using a long knife trying not to touch your pepper, or you can rubber gloves to cut it up.
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Wash your hands straight afterward and don't touch your eyes.
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These peppers burn your hands plus eyes if they make contact using the skin.
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Rinse your lime or lemon juice off your stewing steak.
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And cut the meat into cubes, also.
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Chop your pig’s trotters and the oxtail in cubes.
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Fill the large pot with water.
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Bring to a boil.
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Add the pig’s trotters.
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Wait until the pig’s trotters have boiled.
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Drain your excess water, plus now add the stewing steak.
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Cover with fresh hot water.
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Add your chopped garlic, onion, and peppers.
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Add the cinnamon stick plus a, cloves, basil and thyme pinch of salt and sugar to taste.
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Simmer until the meat is tender.
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Your flavor of this dish comes out over few days and therefore gets tastier every time you reheat it.
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Make sure you always reheat your entire pot to boiling point.
On the side: Green salad
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (10 min)
- Rinse the salad greens. Slice the cucumber.
- Put it all in a bowl and toss with the dressing just before eating.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.