With each bite into a new flavor palate, we explore culture. We strengthen diversity through the age-old bonding ritual of breaking bread.
Saba’s Awaze Sauces & Spices put a twist on traditional recipes, blending classic and modern flavors, and opening the doors to a truly awazing™ experience.
Authentic Berbere is our take on the traditional spice blend of Ethiopia and Eritrea. (Amharic: በርበሬ bärbäre; Tigrinya: በርበረ bärbärä)
Soil, temperature, and elevation make each blend unique – from region to region, from home to home. Although every family keeps their berbere a secret, we are sharing ours with you!
Saba’s Awaze Sauce comes in Original, Gold and Honey Jalapeño versions and compliments a variety of dishes.
Saba’s Authentic Berbere Spice Blends come plain or mixed with basil, cilantro, rosemary and black truffle.
Saba Spice is a spiced rum. Rum is made from sugar, which can be pure cane sugar, a syrup, or molasses. There are several subcategories of rum. One is flavored rum aka spiced rum, which is made by adding fruits and/or spices.
Soil, temperature, and elevation make each blend unique – from region to region, from home to home. Although every family keeps their berbere a secret, we are sharing ours with you!
Authentic Berbere is our take on the traditional spice blend of Ethiopia and Eritrea. (Amharic: በርበሬ bärbäre; Tigrinya: በርበረ bärbärä)
With each bite into a new flavor palate, we explore culture. We strengthen diversity through the age-old bonding ritual of breaking bread.
Saba’s Awaze Sauce comes in Original, Gold and Honey Jalapeño versions and compliments a variety of dishes.
Saba’s Authentic Berbere Spice Blends come plain or mixed with basil, cilantro, rosemary and black truffle.
Eventually, as in other parts of the Caribbean, multiple European powers clashed over control of the island, with the Dutch finally winning out for good in 1816. Prior to that, in the 17th century, the small island was a big haven for pirates. In one of the more notorious pirate acts ever, Captain Morgan is said to have evicted Saba’s entire population of 54 Dutch and 87 slaves in 1655, shipping them off to nearby St. Maarten so that the pirates could have Saba all to themselves.
Oh, there’s an airport now to make things easier… sort of. Built in 1963, the Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is only 1,300 feet long, or about the size of an aircraft carrier, making it the shortest commercial runway in the world!
So, even now, it ain’t so easy to get yourself, or anything, in or out of here…
Now imagine something like Saba Spice, a sweet, homemade rum-based liquor developed and cultivated in this largely sequestered small place. The women of Saba have been making this stuff in their kitchens for generations, each household employing its own, unique combination of spices handed down through the ages to create one-of-a-kind flavors.
There are uncommon destinations and then there are UNCOMMON destinations! Saba, among the smallest enclaves in all of the Caribbean, much less the decidedly Dutch part, absolutely qualifies in the ultra-bold, all-caps category. You may want to add an extra exclamation point or two for this beauty, though. Very few places better measure-up to our uncommon style of travel, with Saba Spice, the homemade dark rum liquor pictured here, representing one of the big reasons why…
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FAQ
What is Saba liquor?
What is spiced rum made from?
What is Saba Spice?
Very few places better measure-up to our uncommon style of travel, with Saba Spice, the homemade dark rum liquor pictured here, representing one of the big reasons why… First, a bit on Saba: Essentially the peak of a singular volcano jutting up from the seafloor, Saba covers a mere five square miles of steep and unforgiving land.
Can one eat three types of sabjis for dinner?
Yes definitely. Sabji can be made up of various vegetables including eggplant, carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, okra, red peppers, peas, mushrooms, spinach and the more the merrier.
What is Saba Spice Rum?
FOLLOW & SHARE WITH A FRIEND! Saba Spice is a spiced rum. Rum is made from sugar, which can be pure cane sugar, a syrup, or molasses. There are several subcategories of rum. One is flavored rum aka spiced rum, which is made by adding fruits and/or spices. This process is similar to how juniper and botanicals are added to gin.
What is Saba & how do you make it?
And one of the secrets that they don’t share with us often stateside? Saba. Sometimes called mosto cotto or vin cotto, saba is a condiment made from boiling down must, the grape smush left over from making wine. It has sweetness, to be sure, depth and complexity like a good balsamic, but still plenty of acid to balance, like pomegranate molasses.