Best Hot Sauce

If hot sauce is your thing, you will love, love, love this fresh tasty recipe. I first tried a version of this hot sauce in Cameroon, Africa. I couldn't get enough of it; no matter where you ate, there would be a small bowl of this divine sauce on the table, each unique to the person making it. Only recently have I actively searched out the recipe. I did not follow the recipe to a tee, but combined this recipe with another a close friend gave me. In the end, I can't argue the results!

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

Ingredients

• salt to taste
• ½ cup vegetable oil, or as needed
• 1 onion, coarsely chopped
• ¼ cup fresh basil leaves
• 1 squeeze lemon juice
• ¼ cup fresh parsley leaves
• 2 tablespoons beef bouillon powder
• 10 fresh hot chile peppers, stems removed
• ¼ cup pitted fresh dates, or more to taste
• 1 roma (plum) tomato, roughly chopped
• 4 garlic cloves

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.