Salsa Brava

Name: Salsa Brava
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 7½ cups (1800 ml)
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 4 cloves garlic Garlic; about 1 tomato (150 g) Tomato; about ⅔ cup (80 g) Cornstarch; about 6 Tbsp (100 ml) Fino Sherry; 5 g Hot Pimenton; about ½ tsp (1 g) Cayenne; 6¼ cups (1500 ml) Water; about ⅔ cup (150 ml) Olive Oil

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Fernando Del Cerro recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Fernando Del Cerro.

TABLE SALSA · PATATAS BRAVAS & FRIED POTATOES

In the published recipe, this is the table salsa for patatas bravas.

Del Cerro's salsa brava for patatas bravas.

On the jar

SALSA

Method: stove
Yield: about 7½ cups
Ingredients: 8

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Fino Sherry 100 mlWater 1500 mlOlive Oil 150 ml

Ingredients

Garlic4 cloves garlic
Tomatoabout 1 tomato (150 g)
Cornstarchabout ⅔ cup (80 g)
Fino Sherryabout 6 Tbsp (100 ml)
Hot Pimenton5 g
Cayenneabout ½ tsp (1 g)
Water6¼ cups (1500 ml)
Olive Oilabout ⅔ cup (150 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

Fernando del Cerro. Spanish / Madrid. Cited awards include: Michelin 1* (Casa José, Aranjuez).

Adapted from a Fernando del Cerro recipe (Fernando del Cerro / Cervantes × INTERPORC vol.2 PDF).

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 Fernando del Cerro / Cervantes × INTERPORC vol.2 PDF (published as “Salsa Brava”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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