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Red Sauce - (salsa Colorada)

Because the garlic is precooked, this sauce does not have a particularly strong flavor, even though it calls for a head of garlic. It is particularly good with boiled vegetables, cold meats, and cold or hot fish.

Cuisine: Spanish
Courses: Sauces
Serves: 1 people

Recipe Ingredients

3   Tomatoes - red ripe (small)
1   Garlic
2   Hard-boiled egg yolks
12   Almonds - peeled and toasted
3/4 cup 177mlOlive oil
1/4 cup 59mlWine vinegar
1/2   Hot chili pepper
  (or cayenne pepper to taste)
  Salt - to taste

Recipe Instructions

Bake unpeeled tomatoes and garlic in oven until tomatoes are very soft. Remove peel from tomatoes and garlic, mash in mortar or electric blender with pepper. Add yolks of hard-boiled eggs with almonds; when well blended, gradually mix in oil and vinegar. Season with salt if necessary.

This recipe makes 1 1/2 cups of sauce.

Source:
Barbara Norman

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