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:
- Rough chop the 1 Tbsp of coriander leaves.
- 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.
- Finely chop the 1 Tbsp worth of green chilis.
- Pop those ingredients to a bowl.
- 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:
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