Salsa Negra

Name: Salsa Negra
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 1¼ cups (280 ml)
Cuisine: Latin
Ingredients: 3/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp grapeseed oil (210 ml) Grapeseed Oil; about 21 chiles (21 g) Arbol Chile; 3/4 oz guajillo chiles (about 3), stemmed, seeded and cut into pieces Guajillo; 10 black garlic cloves, peeled and minced Black Garlic; 10 fresh garlic cloves, minced Garlic; 1 Tbsp white wine vinegar (15 ml) White Wine Vinegar; 1 Tbsp piloncillo or packed light brown sugar (15 ml) Piloncillo; 3/4 tsp cumin seeds (3.75 ml) Cumin; 1 tsp kosher salt (5 ml) Salt

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Carlos Salgado recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Carlos Salgado.

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On the jar

SALSA NEGRA

Method: stove
Yield: about 1¼ cups
Ingredients: 9

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Grapeseed Oil 210 mlWhite Wine Vinegar 15 mlPiloncillo 15 mlCumin 4 mlSalt 5 ml

Ingredients

Grapeseed Oil3/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp grapeseed oil (210 ml)
Arbol Chileabout 21 chiles (21 g)
Guajillo3/4 oz guajillo chiles (about 3), stemmed, seeded and cut into pieces
Black Garlic10 black garlic cloves, peeled and minced
Garlic10 fresh garlic cloves, minced
White Wine Vinegar1 Tbsp white wine vinegar (15 ml)
Piloncillo1 Tbsp piloncillo or packed light brown sugar (15 ml)
Cumin3/4 tsp cumin seeds (3.75 ml)
Salt1 tsp kosher salt (5 ml)

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Carlos Salgado — published sauce recipes in the PantryFlex catalog. Food & Wine Best New Chef 2015.

Adapted from a Carlos Salgado recipe (Carlos Salgado / Food & Wine).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Carlos Salgado / Food & Wine (published as “Salsa Negra”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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