Red Pepper Sauce

Name: Red Pepper Sauce
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: Makes 570 ml/1 pint/2½ cups basic sauce
Ingredients: Salt and pepper to taste; 1 tomato, skinned and de-seeded, then chopped; 4 shallots, finely sliced; 3 tbsp olive oil or peanut oil; 570 ml/1 pint/2½ cups water; 1 tsp ground coriander (optional); 4 large red sweet/bell peppers, de-seeded and diced

Preparation info

Makes
570 ml
basic sauce

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 5

Appears in

The Rice Book

By Sri Owen

Published 1993

About

If you wish, you can make this sauce extremely smooth, as you can the Tomato Sauce. If you make it with equal quantities of tomatoes and red peppers, it becomes, logically enough, Red Pepper and Tomato Sauce.

Ingredients

3 tbsp olive oil or peanut oil
4 large red sweet/bell peppers, de-seeded and diced
4

Sauce
Spicy

Method

Stir-fry the pepper in the oil for 2 minutes. Add the shallots and go on stir-frying for 3 more minutes. Then add the other ingredients and simmer, uncovered, for 45 minutes. By this time the sauce will be quite thick. Stir, adjust the seasoning, and the basic sauce is ready to serve. It can be made some hours in advance and reheated.

To make a smooth sauce, pass it through a fine sieve