Cooked chilli (Pilipili ya kukaanga)

Name: Cooked chilli (Pilipili ya kukaanga)
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: Chilli 🌶; Cooking oil; Tomatoes 🍅; Onion 🌰; Garlic; Ginger; Coriander leaves 🍃; Lemon 🍋

Markseiline Kiritu @KingKiritu

Cooked chilli (Pilipili ya kukaanga)

Markseiline Kiritu @KingKiritu

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Ingredients

Chilli 🌶
Cooking oil
Tomatoes 🍅
Onion 🌰
Garlic
Ginger
Coriander leaves 🍃
Lemon 🍋

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Steps

1

Cut about 8 chillies to increase surface area for easy crushing
2

Crush the chillies using mortar and pestle
3

Grate your ginger to make a paste
4

Fry onions in your sufuria with little amount of cooking oil until golden brown
5

Add the ginger paste to the frying onions
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Add chopped tomatoes into the mixture and stir until broken
7

Add tomato paste and stir until a thick paste is achieved
8

Add crushed chillies
9

Mix garlic together with finely chopped coriander and crush them
10

Add garlic and coriander mixture into the sufuria and stir
11

Squeeze half lemon into the mixture in the sufuria
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Add a pinch of salt and stir
13

Cover for less than 30 seconds, and the homemade chillie sauce is ready.
14

Store in a container in the fridge
15

Serve with any meal