Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

El Speciale Sauce

Chef: Michael Van De Elzen (host of the The Food Truck cooking show) as heard on Nine To Noon Tuesday 5 June 2012

Tags: salsa, savoury sauce, Mexican, Latin American

Ingredients

Green Salsa

• 3 green chillies, halved and deseeded
• 1 tomato, roughly chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
• pinch salt
• 7 canned tomatillos, drained and chopped
• ½ cup coriander leaves

Red Salsa

• 4 tomatoes, skinned, deseeded and finely chopped
• ½ onion, finely sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled
• 10 red chillies, halved and deseeded
• pinch salt

To serve

• 1 diced avocado

Method

Green Salsa

Blend together chillies, tomato, garlic and salt in a food processor. Add tomatillos and coriander and pulse.

Red Salsa

Heat a heavy-based frying pan. Cook tomatoes, onion and garlic until just coloured. Transfer to a food processor. Lightly brown chillies in the same pan and add to the food processor with salt. Blend ingredients together.

El Speciale Sauce

Mix green and red salsa together, then gently fold in avocado.