My very first Skhug - Absolutely Green and Hot הסחוג הראשון שלי

My very first Skhug

Please , don't touch your eyes after making this sauce ! ..
As I wrote before, I love hot sauces, piquant and spicy , No not too much, but Garlic and onions are always welcome, in any food.sometimes hot peppers too..
2 weeks ago, I took a Taxi to my work place, it was a short drive; After few minutes the chauffeur asked me if I know how to prepare Skhug ..?!, "No I said" ." Do you want me to learn you how to make it at home ?" ..." Yes ! please, I'm just taking a piece of paper to write the recipe ..!"
Most Jew of Yemen know how to prepare Skhug, it's the No. 1 and the most popular hot sauce here in Israel, it's eaten in most Israeli homes everyday, with evey food, with Hummus,with cheese, as a spread .
You can find very small jars of red or green skhug in every store here, in the refrigerator only,But it's not as natural as the home-made sauce .
Most Skhug are made of: green or red hot peppers, Coriander (cilantro), garlic, cumin,salt and olive oil.

"Please" , I said :"Let me know what's your name ?".. . "Why?" he asked me?... "I want to write your name besides your recipe.."

Zion's told me his 2 secrets:

1. Not grounding all Skhug ingredients together.(explanation immediately)

2. As more Skhug you will eat you'll live longer ..(let's try it..)

As he told me :"If you have a blender it's very easy to make this sauce"

Here is Zion's Skhug recipe:It's The Israeli Salsa-סחוג של ציון

500 gr fresh green hot peppers

1 bundle of fresh cilantro

garlic cloves (I add 9 cloves - you can add more)

cumin

salt

olive oil (1/4 cup or less )

H O W :

1.Cut all the peppers to 3 or 4 parts , ground them in your blender. Begin with few peppers, then gradually add more and more , until all peppers are ground. [Zion says:"don't believe your seller,just taste one pepper"-remmember -it was Not my recommendation]

2. Wash the fresh cilantro and cut the bundle to 4 or 5 parts. add each part to your blender, grind as you finish all the cilantro. [Zion told me to wash the cilantro with salt and lot of water, it has sand and sometimes worms..I did it, and found sand only..]

3. Now add the garlic cloves - whole or cut up , and grind again.

4. Add salt (1/2 ts or more) , cumin (1/2-1 ts), olive oil and grind one more time (and the last one)

5. Congratulations : you've got your very green and Hot first Skhug .. transfer to a bowl , add more seasoning as you like (Zion told me to add less salt at the grinding and then to add more- to taste)

6. Fill small jars with your fresh Skhug and place in your refrigerator [Zion told me he put in his freezer some plastic jars full with Skhug, it's very good , after thawing it in the frigertor-in this way you have Skhug al the year..!]

** And now comes my secret.. with this sauce: my son asked the seller for fresh cilantro, and by mistake he gave him parsely,it was friday night, so I coudn't buy any cilantro.. So this Skhug is made of parsely .. please , don't tell anyone :-) ]

 

Adding the hot peppers, then the coriander, after that the garlic..

Adding cumin,salt, olive oil..

[ Here is the Bread recipe]

רוצים לקרא איך ציון לימד אותי להכין סחוג? כולל המתכון שלו-אנא לחצו על הקישור הזה וגלגלו עד תחתית העמוד. אגב: גיל חובב מוסיף גם פלפל שחור טחון והל וטוחן הכל יחד