Recipe: East: Velvety Warm Mustard Pepper Sauce
For 2 Persons
Category: Indian, Sauces
Stephen Ceideburg
1 c Chopped mustard greens or
-Swiss chard
1/2 c Coarsely chopped green
-pepper
1 lg Red-ripe tomato, cored,
-quartered
1/4 c Loosely packed chopped
-cilantro
2 Fresh hot green chiles,
-stemmed and seeded
2 Garlic cloves, peeled
1 tb Mild olive oil
1/2 ts Ground cumin
1/2 ts Ground coriander
1 tb Dijon-style mustard
1 ts Sugar
1/2 ts Salt, or to taste
1/3 c Heavy cream
A full recipe of this sauce is enough for about 1 1/2 pounds of cooked
fish, seafood or firm cubed tofu.
Place greens, pepper, tomato, cilantro, chiles and garlic in a blender or
food processor and process until smoothly pureed. Set aside.
Heat oil in a 2-quart saucepan over medium-high heat. Add pureed mixture
and cook, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Add the remaining
ingredients. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover, and cook until
sauce is thick, 12 to 15 minutes.
Makes about 2 cups.
PER TABLESPOON: 15 calories, 0 g protein, 1 g carbohydrate, 1 g fat (1 g
saturated), 3 mg cholesterol, 41 mg sodium, 0 g fiber.
Laxmi Hiremath writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, 6/24/92.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini
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