Dan’s Prawn & Oyster Bar serves delicious peri-peri prawns at Market on Main, Maboneng Precinct, Joburg. He shared the peri-peri sauce recipe with F&HE
Dan’s peri-peri recipe
Ingredients
- 60ml (¼ cup) olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 15ml (1 tbsp) garlic
- 5 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
- 1 small tin tomato paste
- 10ml (2 tsp) sugar
- 3 chillies, chopped
- 5ml (1 tsp) fresh thyme
- 2 lemons
- 250ml (1 cup) water
Instructions
1
Heat the oil, add onion and garlic, and cook until soft.
2
Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, sugar, chillies and thyme. Peel the rind off one of the lemons and add together with the water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer with a lid on for about an hour.
3
When mixture has cooled, blend the sauce and add the juice of the other lemon.
