- Also written
- Scotch bonnet pepper
What “Scotch bonnet” means
Scotch bonnet is the very hot pepper at the heart of Jamaican cooking, used in jerk, escovitch, stews and rice an peas. In everyday talk Jamaicans often just call it "pepper".
Examples
Put di scotch bonnet een whole, nuh mek it bus.
Put the scotch bonnet in whole, don't let it burst.
Di food have nuff pepper.
The food is very spicy.
How to use it
Everyday word. In rice an peas the pepper goes in whole for flavour; if it bursts, the pot gets much hotter.