Badia Allspice Ground Spice, 2 oz

Ground allspice is pimento berry milled fine — the same Jamaican spice that defines jerk and oxtail, ready to fold straight into doughs, batters, and rubs without grinding. One spice, four flavors: clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pepper.

Common Uses

Whisk into jerk dry rubs for chicken, pork, and fish. Stir into Jamaican beef patty filling, meat loaf, and Swedish meatballs. Bake into carrot cake, spice cake, pumpkin pie, gingerbread, and Caribbean black cake. Season brown stew chicken, curry goat gravy, and rice and peas. Add to mulled cider, mulled wine, and chai blends.

Cuisine Context

In the Caribbean, allspice is the everyday savory spice — Jamaican cooks reach for it the way others reach for black pepper. Outside the islands, it crosses cleanly into baking and warm-spice traditions: Middle Eastern baharat and kibbeh, Scandinavian meatballs and pickling, British Christmas pudding, and American holiday baking.

Pro Tip

Ground allspice loses its top notes faster than whole. Buy what you'll use in a few months, and add it during the last third of cooking in long stews so the clove and pepper notes stay forward instead of cooking off.

Ships from Doral, FL.