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Why bother when you can buy it? Well, maybe because it's just fun to do?! This sauce is now quite well known in the Netherlands and has its roots in Tunisia. It resembles sambal or Sriracha and is quite spicy. The advantage of making it yourself is of course that you can also determine its sharpness. I'm learning to appreciate spicy food more and more because a few years ago you wouldn't see me making these kinds of recipes so quickly. But now I share “Self Harissa Make The Basic Recipe” with you so that you can get started with it too.
Make Harissa Yourself The Basic Recipe
To make harissa you need a number of herbs and spices. As coriander en cumin. The latter is a spice that you often encounter in North African cuisine. We mainly know cumin from cumin cheese (which I love myself). But not everyone is crazy about it. However, I can recommend that you use it with this harissa because it gives your sauce a delicious taste in addition to all the other spices.
If you the harissa Once you have made it, you can keep it in a jar in the refrigerator for a while. What do you use it all for?
- In soup, for example tomato soup to give it extra spice.
- For meat as a marinade with, for example, extra lemon juice.
- But also simply as a dip or with your sandwich!
Below is the full recipe with ingredients. Have fun making the recipe below. Delicious bites!
Make Harissa Yourself The Basic Recipe
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Ingredients:
- 150 gram roasted peppers - (from pot 2 pieces)
- 2 el tomato paste
- 4 toes Garlic - peeled
- 1 red jalapeño
- 60 ml olive oil
- ½ citroen - squeezed
- 2 el tomato paste
Herbs and spices:
- 1 tl chili flakes
- 1 tl cumin seeds
- 1 tl smoked paprika powder
- ½ tl black pepper
- 1 tl salt
- 1 tl coriander balls
- 1 tl fennel seeds
Nice and easy: click on the logo of your favorite supermarket to add the ingredients.
And this is how you make it:
- Put all the herbs and spices in a frying pan and fry for a few minutes on a low heat until you start to smell it.
- Then put everything in the mortar and run/turn the mortar vigorously over it.
- Place the olive oil, roasted peppers, garlic, jalapeño, lemon juice, tomato puree, together with the spices from the mortar in a food processor and process until you have a nice chunky sauce.
- Careful Delicious Happen 😉
You can often buy these types of sauces ready-made in the supermarket, but why not try it yourself? Then at least there are no strange E numbers or other additions! And it's also nice to say: “Made from scratch!!”. Here are some more ideas for homemade recipes:
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