Peri Peri Sauce

This sauce is traditionally cooked over coals and is named after a peri peri pepper, a small spicy pepper that was very popular with the Portuguese settlers who helped colonize Southern Africa. The sauce is spicy and tangy, and is great as a marinade on chicken or as a lively dip at your next barbecue.

Makes: 3 cups

5 red fresno chili peppers (5)

1/2 cup fresh lemon juice (125 mL)

5-7 cloves garlic (5-7)

2 Tbsp paprika (30 mL)

2 tsp salt (10 mL)

2 cups canola oil (500 mL)
1. Remove stem from peppers. Add whole peppers, garlic, lemon juice, paprika and salt to a blender. Purée to a fine paste.
2. Continue to purée in blender and slowly drizzle in oil.
3. Refrigerate until needed.