• 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.