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Monday, January 11, 2010

African Hot Sauce



An all-purpose hot sauce.

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What you need

  • one dozen chile peppers (i.e., hot red peppers!)
  • one small sweet green pepper (or bell pepper)
  • one clove garlic
  • one medium onion
  • two cans tomato paste
  • four tablespoons vinegar
  • one teaspoon sugar
  • one teaspoon salt

What you do

  • Remove stems and seeds from peppers. -- Careful! Wear kitchen gloves! Do NOT touch your eyes or face while handling hot peppers! Wash your hands with soap and water after you have handled hot peppers -- Grind hot peppers, green pepper, garlic, and onion (or use food processor). Combine all ingredients in sauce pan. Simmer for an hour or two. Add cayenne pepper if desired. Put in jars and refrigerate.
  • Serve with everything.



Pili-Pili Sauce

An easy-to-make hot sauce. Pronounced "pee-lee pee-lee", also spelled pilipili. From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, this word is used throughout tropical Africa to refer to hot red peppers, sauces made from them, and foods cooked with these peppers or sauces. Is Pili-Pili a reduplication? See the Coupé-Coupé recipe.

What you need

  • several chile peppers (i.e., hot red peppers!), cleaned and finely chopped
  • juice of one lemon
  • a few cloves of garlic, minced
  • several pieces of parsley, minced (optional)
  • a few tablespoons of cooking oil
  • a pinch of salt

What you do

  • Mix all ingredients by hand or with a blender, food processor. Cook in a hot skillet for a few minutes. Store in a glass jar in the refrigerator.
  • Serve with everything.

Instant pili-pili: Mix cayenne pepper or red pepper powder, garlic powder, and onion powder with a few spoonfuls of tomato sauce.

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