Recipe: African Hot Sauce and Pili-Pili Sauce

Brad - here are a couple of recipes from The Congo Cookbook.

You will also find other recipes by searching recipelink. Good luck, and please report if you find a recipe you like. The real pepper should be African Birds Eye, so the key is finding an equivalent that works for you.

Tracey

African Hot Sauce & Pili-Pili Sauce

---

AFRICAN HOT SAUCE

An all-purpose hot sauce.

one dozen chile peppers (i.e., hot red peppers!)
one small sweet green pepper (or bell pepper)
one clove garlic
one medium onion
two cans tomato paste
four tablespoons vinegar
one teaspoon sugar
one teaspoon salt
What you do

Remove stems and seeds from peppers. -- Careful! Wear kitchen gloves! Do NOT touch your eyes or face while handling hot peppers! Wash your hands with soap and water after you have handled hot peppers -- Grind hot peppers, green pepper, garlic, and onion (or use food processor). Combine all ingredients in sauce pan. Simmer for an hour or two. Add cayenne pepper if desired. Put in jars and refrigerate.

Serve with everything.

---

PILI-PILI SAUCE

An easy-to-make hot sauce. Pronounced "pee-lee pee-lee", also spelled pilipili. From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, this word is used throughout tropical Africa to refer to hot red peppers, sauces made from them, and foods cooked with these peppers or sauces. Is Pili-Pili a reduplication? See the Coup -Coup recipe.

several chile peppers (i.e., hot red peppers!), cleaned and finely chopped
juice of one lemon
a few cloves of garlic, minced
several pieces of parsley, minced (optional)
a few tablespoons of cooking oil
a pinch of salt

What you do

Mix all ingredients by hand or with a blender, food processor. Cook in a hot skillet for a few minutes. Store in a glass jar in the refrigerator.

Serve with everything.
Instant pili-pili: Mix cayenne pepper or red pepper powder, garlic powder, and onion powder with a few spoonfuls of tomato sauce.