Kitchen appliances and utensils
- plate;
- kitchen scales;
- 3-liter pan (2 pcs.);
- sieve;
- scapula;
- kitchen knife;
- cutting board;
- teaspoon and tablespoon;
- hand blender;
- garlic press;
- dishes for prepared ingredients;
- ladle;
- kitchen towel;
- sterilized ware for storage.
Ingredients
- Turn - 2 kg
- Green basil - 1 bunch
- Purple basil - 1 bunch
- Hot pepper - 2 pods
- Garlic - 80 g
- Salt - 4 tsp.
Step cooking
- Thorns (2 kg) thoroughly rinse in water and pat dry with a towel. Cut the fruits of the turn into halves and remove the seeds.
- Turn the prepared turn into a 3-liter pan. You can take a pan and more, the main thing is that the fruits fit.
- Cover the pan with a lid, put on medium heat and bring to a boil, constantly mixing its contents so that nothing sticks to the bottom and walls of the pan. It is necessary to cook until the turn is broken, and the peel will not become easily separated from the pulp. This will take approximately 30 minutes.
- Then remove the pan from the heat, cover and let cool the boiled turn to room temperature.
- Grind the cooled mass thoroughly with a dipping blender in mashed potatoes and grind it through a sieve into another deep pan.
- Peel the garlic cloves (80 g), rinse in water, pass through a press and transfer to a saucepan with mashed potatoes.
- Add salt to taste (approximately 4 tsp). The amount of this ingredient you can control yourself, focusing on your taste preferences. Therefore, adding salt is portionwise, and constantly trying the mashed potatoes to taste.
- Rinse green basil (1 bunch) and purple (1 bunch) in water. It is better to soak the greens and leave in water for a couple of minutes, and then rinse again. Finely chop the greens and transfer to a bowl.
- Rinse hot peppers (2 pods) in water and finely chop with a knife, along with the seeds.
- Put the pan on medium heat and mix constantly until the future sauce becomes hot.
- Add prepared basil and hot pepper, mix thoroughly to make a homogeneous mass, bring to a boil and cook for about 10 minutes, constantly stirring the sauce.
- Remove the finished sauce from the fire, pour into sterilized jars, if you plan to leave it for the winter, or in any other convenient sterilized dish.
Ready sauce has a thick consistency. It can be served with meat, fish, and poultry dishes. Sauce of thorns with herbs will give the finished dish a special piquancy, a slight acidity and a pleasant pungency. If you like a sauce with a pronounced sweetness, you can add a little sugar during the cooking process, as well as other ingredients that you like.
Video recipe
To get acquainted with the detailed step-by-step instructions for preparing such a spicy and unusual sauce, we recommend that you also read this video.