Shatta

Name: Shatta
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about ½ cup (110 ml)
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: about 6½ chiles (100 g) Fresno Chile; ½ tsp (3 g) Salt; about ½ tsp (2 g) Sugar; 1 tsp (5 ml) Cider Vinegar

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

CONDIMENT · GRILLED MEATS, EGGS OR FALAFEL

A condiment for grilled meats, eggs or falafel. The same recipe pairs it with Zhough, the zhough herb sauce.

Maydān's shatta, a fermented Fresno chili paste.

On the jar

SHATTA

Method: blend
Yield: about ½ cup
Ingredients: 4

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Cider Vinegar 5 ml

Ingredients

Fresno Chileabout 6½ chiles (100 g)
Salt½ tsp (3 g)
Sugarabout ½ tsp (2 g)
Cider Vinegar1 tsp (5 ml)

Where it sits

One of 117 hot sauces in the catalog, with 4 ingredients against a median of 7.

The acid here is cider vinegar. In this category chefs also reach for lime juice (19 recipes), rice vinegar (16), and lemon juice (10).

Method

This sauce needs a blender. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Combine measured ingredients and blend until smooth.
Taste and adjust salt and acid.

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Provenance

Maydān (Rose Previte / Darnell Thomas). Middle Eastern / Levantine. Cited awards include: Michelin 1* (Maydān, Washington DC, first star 2020).

Originally published as Shatta (Fresno Pepper Paste).

Adapted from a Maydān (Rose Previte / Darnell Thomas) recipe (Maydān / Michelin Starward feature).

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 Maydān / Michelin Starward feature (published as “Shatta (Fresno Pepper Paste)”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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