This chipotle salmon recipe is a spicy, smoky, aromatic and delicious all-in-one meal. You’ve got protein from the salmon, starch from the potatoes and then you have your vegetables. Don’t need anything else, water to douse the fire, totally optional. 🙂 So I recently promised some readers a few spicy chillies to accompany the various […]
Homemade Chipotle Paste Recipe
First published 2011. Republished with updated content June 2020. Chipotle paste is, simply put, chipotle chillies ground to a paste with a few added ingredients. You end up with a smoky and spicy chilli paste that is going to jazz up your meals to no end! It can be used for so many things, gives […]
Sautéed Chipotle Potatoes (with Homemade Chipotle Paste)
These chipotle potatoes are so delicious, you are going to want that whole bowl to yourself! Spicy, smoky, a touch of sweet and with an incredibly enticing aroma! So I realised not too long ago, that I’ve failed this city (sorry, total Arrow fan) LinsFood chilli heads. I’ve posted a few chilli paste recipes over […]
Pilpelchuma (Filfel Chuma), a Libyan Jewish Red Chilli Paste from Tripoli
This is a very easy recipe, and doesn’t need any cooking apart from the couple of minutes of dry roasting the 2 whole spices, cumin and caraway seeds. This Libyan Jewish chilli paste was introduced to the world at large when Jerusalem was published, the book by Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. And I’ve had so […]
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 […]
