Hot Sauce #1 - Toxic Lime

Back with another sauce - this time I thought i'd try something of a Thai theme: lime, kaffier lime, lemongrass, and fresh coriander. I just grabbed a few things from the garden and the pantry that seemed to match and came up with my second sauce, Sauce #1 - Toxic Lime.

Ingredients

350g	Apples, cored.
60g	Fresh coriander, including root and stem.
70g	Fresh lemongrass.
40g	Fresh ginger.
12g	Fresh lemon basil leaves.
2	Kaffir lime leaf.
1	Kaffir lime zest.
2	Limes, juice and zest.
200g	Cayesan chillies (large fleshy chillies)
100g	Habaneros (about 15)
1/2 cup	Malt vinegar.
30g	Palm sugar.
1/2 cup	Cane Sugar.
1 cup	Water.
1 tsp	Citric Acid.
2 tbl	Mushroom soy sauce (Happy Boy Brand)
100ml	Olive oil.

Method

Cut the ginger, lemongrass and lime leaf into fine slices and then put into a food processor and process until finely chopped. Add all of the other fresh ingredients (everything until and including the chillies) and blend thoroughly into a fine paste.

Place into a medium sized saucepan on a low heat and add the liquids and bring to a slow simmer.

Stir in the sugar and simmer everything slowly 'until done' - 30+ minutes.

Use a stick blender to liquefy everything together as much as possible.

Bottle.

Results

This has a slightly strange flavour - despite lime and chilli seeming a good match I've never really found something where it truly 'worked'. Perhaps the kaffier lime zest is a little overpowering, as is the coriander. I will have to leave it for a bit and try it with some suitable food (might go well with pork?).

It definitely has a lime flavour to it though, which is what I was trying to achieve so at this point i'd call it a success. And it smells wonderful. It's probably about a 7 out of 10 for heat as with the previous recipe.