Peruvian Passionfruit Chilli Sauce (Maracuya aji)
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
- 1 onion, peeled and finely diced
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely diced
- 2 Rocoto chillies
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2-3 teaspoons passionfruit (yellow skinned passionfruit if you can get them)
- Salt to taste
Step 1 - Halve and seed the chillies using gloves as they can be hot. Chop roughly. Add a couple of teaspoons of oil into a frypan and saute them along with the garlic and onion for around 5 minutes or until soft.
Step 2 - Blend these with the olive oil until smooth. Add the passionfruit and salt to taste. I added a tiny amount of sugar because yellow passionfruits are sweeter than purple ones.
Sweet Chilli Passionfruit Sauce
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 15-20 minutes
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
- 3 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped
- 3 jalapeno chillies
- 3 passionfruit, halved
- 1/2 tamarillo
Step 1 - Boil the sugar, water, rice wine vinegar, chillies and garlic together for 10 minutes until thicker in texture. Add in the passionfruit (seeds and all) and the inside of 1/2 a tamarillo (which is what colours it purple) and bring back to the boil for a couple of minutes. It will thicken upon cooling.