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Sweet and Spicy Mango Hot Sauce
Todd Pinsky
iParenting's Dad of the Month shares a family favorite!
Ingredients
1 bag of frozen mango chunks, or torture yourself and cut up a bunch of fresh ones
Red onion
2 to 24 jalapeņo peppers (to suit your taste) br>Handful of raisins
Handful of garlic cloves
Dash of malt vinegar
Fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon allspice
Juice of 1 lemon
Pinch of salt
Directions
Drop the handful of raisins into hot water for 15 minutes to reconstitute. Then throw everything but the cilantro and the salt into the food processor or blender. Keep it going until all the raisins are pretty finely chopped.
The more jalapeņo peppers, the merrier. For authenticity, use fresh habanero peppers, but use rubber gloves when cutting them up. I am not joking. Add the roughly chopped cilantro last. All amounts are extremely subjective. Use as much or as little garlic and hot stuff as you need. The flavors are so strong that you're pretty safe whatever you do. Chop the cilantro by hand and stir it in. Then add salt to taste. The spicier it is, the more salt it will probably take.
Suggestions
This stuff is great on almost any kind of meat, chicken or fish – or scrambled eggs, leftover pizza or just chips.