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peri peri sauce
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Peri Peri sauce

Fresh, whole, spicy sauce! delicious on tacos, burritos, salads and maybe on everything!
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time0 minutes
0 minutes
Total Time10 minutes
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: portuguese
Keyword: fresh, sauce, spicy, Vegan
Servings: 4
Calories: 180kcal
Cost: 5

Equipment

  • Food processor or Blender

Ingredients

  • 2 African red bird's eye chilies
  • 2 Bell peppers I tend to combine some sweet chilies to give it more flavor
  • 1/3 cup Basil
  • 1/3 cup Coriander
  • 5 g Tarragon leaves Too minty! more eclipse the flavors of the other ingredients
  • 1/3 cup Apple cider vinegar
  • 1/3 cup Lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp Paprika
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 4 Cloves of garlic

Instructions

  • Make sure you have all the ingredients
    Peri peri sauce ingredients
  • Chop the peppers and the garlic
  • Mince the african chilies
  • Add everything to the food processor
    peri peri sauce ingredients in a blender
  • Blend at slow speed, then at high speed for about 30 seconds. Scrape the sides and blend again for another 20 seconds or until everything is well integrated
  • Enjoy!
    peri peri sauce above

Video

Notes

  • Be careful with the heat of bird's eye chilies! I add only 2 or maximum 3, because they are really spicy
  • I like to combine sweet chilies and peppers, it gives this sauce a great taste!
  • Tarragon is the only herb that I use only a little for this sauce. Why? because it is a bit too minty for a spicy sauce :). If you don't mind that, feel free to add more!
  • If you use a very powerful blender or bullet blender, you are likely going to end with a "juice" instead of the whole sauce you see in the pictures
  • If you don't like vinegar, do not add it, but then it will spoil sooner in the fridge
  • If you don't like raw sauces, you can blend the sauce in a blender instead of a food processor until it is quite liquid and then cook it 
  • If you are looking for something like the Nando's sauce, this is not it :D. Nando's sauce has some sugar and it is a very liquid and cooked sauce!