🇹🇳 Tunisia cuisine · #18

Homemade Harissa

Homemade Harissa
Time30 min
Serves10
Ingredients6

A paste of hot red peppers, garlic, caraway, coriander and olive oil — the soul of Tunisian cooking, inscribed on UNESCO's heritage list.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Stem and seed the chillies and soak in warm water for an hour.
  2. Drain thoroughly.
  3. Grind with garlic, spices and salt into a paste.
  4. Pack into a jar, cover with a layer of oil and keep refrigerated for weeks.
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