Zhug Recipe (Yemenite Green Hot Sauce with Chili Peppers, Herbs and Oil)

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
• ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
• ½ teaspoon coriander seeds
• ½ teaspoon cardamom seeds
• Salt to taste

  I use about a teaspoon
• 1 cup loosely packed cilantro
• 1 cup loosely packed parsley
• 5-6 serrano peppers

  chopped
• 4-5 dried chiles de arbol

  coarsely chopped
• 4 cloves garlic

  crushed
• Juice from 1 lemon

  about 2-3 tablespoons
• ½ cup extra virgin olive oil

Instructions

• 1 Grind the peppercorns, cumin seeds, coriander seeds and cardamom seeds in a
  mortar and pestal into a coarse powder. Alternatively, you can start with
  powdered versions of these ingredients. Add them to a food processor along with
  the salt.
• 2 Add the remaining ingredients except for the olive oil to the food processor and
  pulse until the ingredients are chunky but combined. Do not overprocess or
  you’ll lose the desireable texture.
• 3 Drizzle in the olive oil and pulse/process until the oil is emulsified and the
  remaining sauce is thick and chunky.
• 4 Adjust for salt and use as needed.

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