Friday, September 4, 2015

Bhut Blueberry Bazooka HOT Sauce :: Use Bhut Jolokia OR Your Favorite Habanero ::

These savory multi grain pancakes are adorned w/ sauted colorful peppers & Bhut Blueberry Bazooka HOT Sauce
This year organic berries have become available in quantity and at a good price.  From you local green grocers to Costco, you’ll find organic blackberries, raspberries and blueberries stocking the shelves in their season.  Fruit pairs so well w/ extra HOT chilies.  And when you have access to quantities of berries, make up a batch of this extra HOT delight and lay in the flavors of summer for dolling up your breakfast lunch and dinner plates. 

For the flavor base
Amount
Measure
Ingredient
Prep Method
1.75
Ounces
Or favorite EXTRA HOT chilies
1
Can
Coconut milk

¼
Cup
Grapeseed oil
Or Avanti golden oil

Directions:
Remove stems from chilies.  Pierce each one w/ a knife.  Be careful not to get the chili oil on your fingers.  Bring all the above to a simmer in a deep skillet.  
Simmering HOT chilies in coconut milk infuses the entire salsa w/ HEAT
Then add:
1
Large
Leek, washed & sliced
Save outer leaves for broth
1
Teaspoon
Sea salt
Or Avanti pink salt
½
Cup
Garlic cloves
Pickled garlic A OK
1
Knob
Ginger
About ¼ cup diced
1
Teaspoon
Fennel seed


Simmer for 15 mins. 
Fennel, leek, garlic, ginger, on my!  The Trinity Roots add power to the heat
For the broth
Amount
Measure
Ingredient
Prep Method
3
Whole
Corn cobs
Corn kernels removed & reserved
1
Large
Leek
Outer leaves only
½
Cup
Sake

2
Tablespoons
Miso

2
Quarts
water


Combine the above in a covered stock pot, bring to a simmer.  Low boil for 30 mins.  Turn off heat, add:

1
Large sprig
Fresh lemon verbena
Optional


Favorite herbs in season
Bay leaves, rosemary, thyme, Thai basil, etc
 
You'll have extra broth.  And you'll find that corn and miso together w/ lemon verbena are a flavor delight
Replace cover and cool in pot while completing the sauce.

Add the Bhut coconut mixture to the Vitamix.  Add:

2 ½
Cups
Corn leek broth
Strained
1
Large
Organic grapefruit
Juice and zest

Blend completely.  Return this mix to the deep skillet.  Then rinse out the Vitamix w/

1
Cup
Broth


Add this to the skillet too and bring all to a simmer.

TOTAL BROTH USED:  3 ½ cups.  NOTE:  You’ll have extra for a great flavorful corn miso herb broth.  Add a little more miso, cubes of silken organic tofu, scallions, sesame seeds & shredded carrot for a great corn miso soup.  Leftovers are like money in the bank!

To the simmering puree add:

32
Ounces
Fresh organic blueberries

1
Tablespoon
Fennel seeds


Simmer 10 mins.  Turn off heat and add:


3
Ears
Fresh corn kernels

3
Med
Limes
Juice & zest

The Heat AND the culinary possibilities are endless in the EXTRA HOT Salsa


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Blog post by Chef Mark Cleveland

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