This is why in South Asian cooking, it is used to colour dishes and not to impart heat. Think tandoori and rogan josh. I’ve talked at length about how the colour red is imparted onto many signature Kashmiri dishes like rogan josh. You can read up on the other 2 natural food colourants in the […]
Zhug, Yemeni Green Hot Sauce (with everyday ingredients)
Zhug (variantly spelled as zhoug, zhoog, skhug and schug), is a hot chilli sauce or chilli paste from Yemen. To me, Zhug is the Middle Eastern pesto. After all, the word zhoug means “ground”, much like pesto comes from the word pestare, meaning “to pound, crush or grind”. Although more commonly known as Yemeni or […]
