African Pepper Sauce
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Abuja, Nigeria ·
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Abuja, Nigeria ·
Pepper sauce is the West African condiment: blended hot pepper cooked down in oil or water until thick, spooned onto anything that needs lifting. It goes with puff puff, grilled meat, fish and eggs, and there is scarcely a dish it is not served alongside somewhere in the region. What distinguishes it from a hot sauce elsewhere is what it does not have. There is no vinegar, no fermentation and usually no sugar. The base is pepper, salt, oil and often a stock cube, and the texture is thick and coarse rather than pourable. Recipes vary with the cook, but hot pepper is the constant, and habanero and scotch bonnet are the usual choices. Heat is adjustable and worth adjusting. Most West African pepper sauces are fierce, and this one uses three habaneros against four bell peppers, which is moderate by regional standards. Deseeding the habaneros, using fewer, or leaving them out entirely all work. The other choice is water or oil: water reduces away and gives a lighter sauce that keeps about a week; oil floats to the top when the sauce is done and seals it, which keeps it considerably longer. No country is named, and the sauce belongs to the whole region rather than to one.
Pepper sauce is a West African condiment of blended hot pepper cooked down in oil or water, served with puff puff, grilled meat, fish and eggs across the region.
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Remove the stems and seeds from the bell peppers and chop them into quarters.
Remove the stems from the habanero peppers.
Put them in a blender or food processor with the tomatoes, half an onion, and either half a cup of water or oil depending on the sauce you want.
Blend or pulse to the consistency you want. Traditionally the sauce is a little coarse, so pulse for about a minute rather than blending smooth.
Transfer to a medium pot and simmer over a low to medium flame for about 20 to 30 minutes.
If you used oil, it will float to the top when the sauce is done. If you used water, the sauce will reduce by half.
Turn off the heat once the water has evaporated and the top starts forming large bubbles that pop.
Store in an airtight container in the fridge and use within a week, or top with oil to keep it longer.
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