Meaning
Fried whole fish topped and steeped in a tangy, spicy pickle of vinegar cooked with sliced onion, carrot, scotch bonnet pepper, and pimento (allspice) berries — the vinegar 'cooking' and preserving the fish and giving it its sharp, fiery kick. A festive and Easter favourite, escoveitch fish is classically eaten with fried dumpling or bammy.
Examples
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Wi have escoveitch fish an bammy fi Good Friday.
We had escoveitch fish and bammy for Good Friday.
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Di vinegar an pepper mek di escoveitch sharp.
The vinegar and pepper make the escoveitch tangy.
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Pour di escoveitch sauce ova di fry fish.
Pour the escoveitch sauce over the fried fish.
Origin
From Spanish 'escabeche' (a vinegar-pickled dish); the Jamaican fried-and-pickled fish. See [[bammy]], [[fry-dumpling]].
How it’s used
Fried fish in a spicy vinegar-onion-pepper pickle; classic with bammy/dumpling. See [[bammy]], [[fry-dumpling]].