Recipes

Zehug Yarok (Green Hot Sauce)

  • Serves

    makes 3/4 Cup

This fiery sauce tastes best when freshly prepared (red zehug is usually bought ready-made). This recipe is from Ricki Callenbach Ben-David, a Yemenite cook.

Ingredients

  • 4 dried hot red chiles (such as cayenne)
  • 7 roughly chopped, stemmed, hot fresh green chiles (such as serrano)
  • 3 pods green cardamom
  • 2 cloves
  • 1 tsp. ground cumin
  • 1 bunch trimmed fresh cilantro
  • 3 chopped peeled garlic cloves
  • Salt

Instructions

Step 1

Soak red chiles in a bowl of water for 30 minutes, then drain. Remove and discard stems from chiles, then put in the bowl of a food processor.

Step 2

Add green chiles, cardamom pods, cloves, and cumin, and process until finely chopped, scraping down sides as needed. Add cilantro and garlic cloves. Process to a fine paste. Season to taste with salt. Serve with felafel if you like.

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