Best Hot Sauce

This tasty hot pepper sauce contains a surprising ingredient - fresh dates. A small bowl of this divine sauce is on the table everywhere in Cameroon, Africa, each unique to the person making it.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 20 mins
• Total Time: 30 mins
• Calories: 14 Calories

Ingredients

• salt to taste
• 1 onion, coarsely chopped
• 1 squeeze lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons beef bouillon powder
• 10 fresh hot chile peppers, stems removed
• 1 roma (plum) tomato, roughly chopped
• 4 garlic cloves
• 0.5 cup vegetable oil, or as needed
• 0.25 cup fresh parsley leaves
• 0.25 cup fresh basil leaves
• 0.25 cup pitted fresh dates, or more to taste

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Place peppers, onion, dates, basil, parsley, tomato, bouillon powder, and garlic in the bowl of a food processor; pour in the oil. Pulse mixture until finely chopped, adding more oil if needed to thin; season with salt.

Step 2

Pour pepper mixture into a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Squeeze lemon juice into pepper mixture, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 15 minutes.

Step 3

Allow pepper mixture to cool; pour into a glass jar with a lid. Store pepper sauce in the refrigerator.