Ajilimójili

Ajilimójili (pronounced: a-He-lee-mo-He-lee) is a hot sauce or hot and sweet sauce from Puerto Rico. Traditionally served over grilled seafood, vegetables, boiled tuber vegetables, and especially grilled meats.

Description

Ajilimójili is a combination of garlic, cilantro or culantro, hot peppers (such as ajicitos, scotch bonnet, habanero chili or ají caballero), pepper, lemon juice, olive oil, white vinegar, red vinegar, or malt vinegar. All the ingredients are then put in to a food processor or blender unless it is a sweet ajilimójili. Sweet ajilimójili call for added ingredients such as sweet red peppers few teaspoons of honey, tomato sauce, and butter. Everything is then simmered for about 2 minutes, transferred to a sealed container, and refrigerate for up to 3 days.

The sauce is considered a standard element of Puerto Rican cooking.,[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Burke, Virginia. Eat Caribbean. London: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
  2. ^ Sivila Vda. de Fernández, Raquel. Así se cocinaba en Puerto Rico. Madrid: Ediciones S.M., 1981.