Dishes · A classic of Jamaican · Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth
Jamaican pepper shrimp
Also Peppered shrimp, Swimps
Freshwater shrimp boiled in their shells with scotch bonnet, garlic and allspice until red and fiercely hot.
What makes it jamaican pepper shrimp
Whole freshwater shrimp, shell on.
A lot of scotch bonnet, with garlic, allspice and salt.
Eaten with the fingers, peeled as you go.
Where it comes from
The shrimp — really freshwater crayfish — come from the Black River and its wetlands. At Middle Quarters, women sell them by the roadside in small plastic bags, still warm, to anyone driving through.