Mojo Picon

Preparation info
  • Makes About

    ¾ cup

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking: Traditional and Modern Recipes to Savor and Share

By Paula Wolfert

Published 2009

  • About

Lola Massieu, a wonderful painter and cookbook author from Tenerife, told me that a good mojo picon, or “spicy sauce, ” should include three types of dried red peppers: one mild, one sweet, and a local hot pepper called la pimienta de puta madre. This last is a Canary Islands joke, Lola explained, and refers to “peppers so hot they make you cry and thus evoke an instinctive memory of your mother!”

These hot Canary Islands peppers, which are very small,