Dan’s peri-peri recipe

October 16, 2014 (Last Updated: January 11, 2019)

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.

 

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