Salsa Negra

Name: Salsa Negra
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 2 cups (500 ml)
Cuisine: Latin
Ingredients: about 6½ chiles (45 g) Chile; about 2 heads cloves (60 g) Garlic; 1 Tbsp piloncillo or light brown (12 g) Brown Sugar; heaping 1 cup walnuts (120 g) Walnuts; 1½ cups (360 ml) Vegetable Oil; to taste Salt

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

CONDIMENT · SWEET POTATO, OCTOPUS & GREENS

A condiment for sweet potato, octopus & greens.

Gabriela Cámara's salsa negra for sweet potato, octopus.

On the jar

SALSA NEGRA

Method: stove
Yield: about 2 cups
Ingredients: 6

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Vegetable Oil 360 ml

Ingredients

Chileabout 6½ chiles (45 g)
Garlicabout 2 heads cloves (60 g)
Brown Sugar1 Tbsp piloncillo or light brown (12 g)
Walnutsheaping 1 cup walnuts (120 g)
Vegetable Oil1½ cups (360 ml)
Saltto taste

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

Mexican coastal chef of Contramar in Mexico City and formerly Cala in San Francisco; Michelin lineage and international recognition. Seafood tostadas and simple gulf/Pacific sauces.

Adapted from a Gabriela Cámara recipe (My Mexico City Kitchen / The Kitchn).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

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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 My Mexico City Kitchen / The Kitchn (published as “Salsa Negra”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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