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, or dried black limes.
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.
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.
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.