Grow It, Catch It, Cook It

Coriander based sauces provide a real flavour boost to your dishes. I love drizzling them in everthing from salads to steaks and potato side dishes,  If you give the  ingredients below a whizz in a blender (rather than a fine chopping) you will get an amazing dipping sauce for spring rolls and the like.

I used this recipe originally from http://www.tarladalal.com (this site is amazing FYI)  and I am going to experiment a bit with the amount of garlic and sugar.

You will need:

• Ingredients:
  • 1 Tbsp brown sugar
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 Tbsp coriander leaves (cilantro)
  • 1 Tbsp fresh green chilis
  • 0.5 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • 2 tsp white vinegar
  • 2 Tbsp water

• Equipment
  • a chopping board
  • a long sharp knife
  • a medium sized bowl
  • a serving bowl
  • optional: a wet blender with a very small bowl

Making the sauce

Steps:

1. Rough chop the 1 Tbsp of coriander leaves.
2. Peel and finely chop the 2 garlic cloves. I use the knife to gently smash the garlic clove first to make it easier to peel.
3. Finely chop the 1 Tbsp worth of green chilis.
4. Pop those ingredients to a bowl.
5. Squeeze about 0.5 Tbsp of lemon juice and add this to the bowl along with:
   • 1 Tbsp brown sugar
   • 2 tsp white vinegar
   • 2 Tbsp water

Now you can either mix the sauce with a fork for a  a crunchier sauce or blend it in the wet mixer for a few pulses.

Enjoy,

PK

Here are some more sauces, condiments and dips along with other cooking staples: