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Harissa North-African Spice maker ©️ Nel Brouwer-van den Bergh

Harissa North-African spice maker

Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Condiment, Sauce
Cuisine North-African
Servings 12

Ingredients
  

Ingredients

  • 2 sweet pointed red peppers
  • 5 cayenne peppers
  • 6 cloves garlic
  • 7 oz (200 g) ripe, sweet tomatoes
  • 1/2 preserved lemon
  • 1 tsp coriander seeds
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp olive oil

Instructions
 

How to make the chilli sauce

  • Roast the sweet peppers in the oven or in a flame until black and blistering. Let them cool and peel them thereafter
  • Place the tomatoes in very hot water for a minute and then coll off with cold water. Peel them fist and then cut them in parts
  • Clean the garlic cloves and slice them fine
  • Cut the cayenne peppers in rings. Leave the seeds for best spicy effect.
  • Roast the spices, and grind them in the mortar and pestle after they have cooled down
  • Cut up the preserved lemon in fine parts
  • Then heat the oil in a sauce pan and add the sweet peppers, the cayenne peppers and the garlic. Fry for a few minutes
  • Then add the preserved lemon, the tomatoes and all the ground spices and simmer for another 15 minutes.
  • Store the sauce in a jar in the refrigerator or freeze portions to keep longer

Notes

Method: roasting, simmering
Food allergy & intolerance information:  
Keyword chilli pepper, lajiaojiang, preserved lemon, roasted sweet red pepper, sambal