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Re(1): Anyone make their own hot sauce?
From:        airam1002002@yahoo.com (Maria)
Posted:      May 27, 2002 at 12:23:08
 

 Here are two recipes for hot sauce from my favorite Ecuadorian cookbook which I have treasured for a long time:
 
Back home we don't cook hot sauce it's made fresh...this is a translation of the recipes:
 
1)
4 hot peppers 
salt
1 tablespoon of oil
4 tablespoons of scallions
1 tablespoon of chopped cilantro
Juice of 1 lemon
 
Wash, cut and take out the seeds of the hot peppers. Blend the hot peppers with a little bit of water, and one teaspoon of salt.
 
Add the lemon juice, oil, onion and cilantro. Refrigerate. 
 
Note: Some people do add the seeds for extra heat.
 
2)
2 fresh hot peppers
4 tree tomatoes
1 tablespoon of chopped cilantro
2-3 scallion stems chopped
2 fresh tomatoes chopped
2 shallots cut into thin slices
Juice of 4 lemons
salt
 
Peel the shallots y cut them into thin slices. Rinse with cold water without handling them too much, add lemon juice and salt. Let them get pickled.
 
Blend the hot peppers with a bit of water and salt, keep aside. 
 
Wash the tree tomatoes, cover with enough water and boil. When they start to break up, take away from the heat, peel them, let them cool. When cool blend them with a bit of the water in which they cooked.
 
In a big bowl, mix the pickled onion, the scallion, the cilantro, the fresh chopped tomatoes, add the tree tomatoe blend. Mix everything together, season with salt, and lemon juice. Add the hot pepper mixture a bit at a time until it reaches the level of heat you prefer. Refrigerate. 
 

PS: When I say blend I mean in a blender.
 

Buen provecho.
 
 
