afoona
Green Cilantro Sauce
Sauces

Green Cilantro Sauce

A fresh green cilantro sauce, perfect with grilled foods, fish and pitas. Ready in 5 minutes.

⏱ 35 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Wash the cilantro and dry well.
  2. 2
    Roughly chop the garlic.
    KnifeCutting board
  3. 3
    Grind the cilantro in a blender' with the garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, ginger, salt and black pepper', to a smooth sauce.
    ⚙ Grinding in a Food ProcessorBlender
    💡In a food processor, grind in short pulses and check between pulses: it's easy to go from coarse to paste. (Sesame for tahini, on the other hand, is ground continuously.)
  4. 4
    Keep in the fridge up to 3 days.
    Refrigerator
103calories
1 gprotein
2 gcarbs
10 gfat
● protein 3%● carbs 9%● fat 89%

Per serving (39 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (4)

  • Blender · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Stick blender (Less smooth, mainly for liquids) · Food processor (Less smooth with liquids)
  • Refrigerator · Also works: Freezer (Chills faster; don't let it freeze) · Ice bath (Ice bath)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)

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