Overnight-Marinated Red Snapper With Sweet & Sour Escovitch Sauce — Jamaican Style
A step-by-step guide to making traditional Jamaican escovitch fish using overnight-seasoned red snapper, fried golden-brown and topped with a vibrant vinegar-based sauce of julienned carrots, bell peppers, onions, habanero, and allspice. The video covers seasoning, frying technique, and building the signature sweet-sour escovitch sauce balanced with sugar and white vinegar. Perfect for anyone wanting to recreate this classic Caribbean dish at home.
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🧾 Ingredients
- 1Red snapper fish
- 2Shrimp stock powder (or shrimp cube)
- 3Onion powder
- 4Garlic powder
- 5Black pepper
- 6Sea salt
- 7Carrot (julienned)
- 8Green bell pepper (julienned)
- 9Red bell pepper (julienned)
- 10Yellow bell pepper (julienned)
- 11Spanish peppers
- 122 large onions (sliced into rounds)
- 132 habanero peppers
- 14Scallions (green onions)
- 15Fresh thyme
- 16Pimento (allspice)
- 17White vinegar (1.5 cups)
- 182 tablespoons sugar
- 192 tablespoons cooking oil
- 20Cooking oil for frying
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