Hot Sauce

Aci Sos

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Yashim Cooks Istanbul

By Jason Goodwin

Published 2016

  • About

From the harissa of Tunisia, to the adjika of Georgia, every region of the old empire has a variant of hot chilli sauce. Arabian and Georgian versions use coriander leaves.

Stir this into a stew, use it as a marinade for roast chicken…the permutations are endless. It lives for a week or two in a jar in the fridge.

Ingredients

  • tomato 1
  • red pepper 1
  • red chillis 2, or 4 drie

Method

  • Quarter the tomato and put it on a baking tray with the pepper and the chilli, if fresh; dried chillis need to be soaked in a little boiling water instead. Bake in a hot oven 200°C. After twenty minutes take out the pepper and put it under a tea towel. In a few minutes the skin will be ready to peel away. Discard skin and seeds, and put the flesh in a bowl.
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