Indian-Cilantro Herb Sauce

Name: Indian-Cilantro Herb Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about ¼ cup (80 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 1 cup fresh (30 g) Cilantro; about ¼ bunch (1 g) Mint; about 2 serranoes (12 g) Serrano; juice of 1/2 lime (15 ml) Lime Juice; pinch sea salt (1 g) Salt; 1 tsp granulated (4 g) Sugar; 1 tablespoon (+ more as needed) Water

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

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On the jar

GREEN

Method: blend
Yield: about ¼ cup
Ingredients: 7

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Lime Juice 15 mlWater 15 ml

Ingredients

Cilantro1 cup fresh (30 g)
Mintabout ¼ bunch (1 g)
Serranoabout 2 serranoes (12 g)
Lime Juicejuice of 1/2 lime (15 ml)
Saltpinch sea salt (1 g)
Sugar1 tsp granulated (4 g)
Water1 tablespoon (+ more as needed)

Where it sits

One of 143 herb sauces in the catalog, with 7 ingredients against a median of 8.

The acid here is lime juice. In this category chefs also reach for lemon juice (35 recipes), red wine vinegar (34), and white wine vinegar (17).

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

Indian-American chef of Chai Pani in Asheville and Atlanta; James Beard Outstanding Restaurant 2022. Indian street food and chutneys scaled to a multi-city group (Botiwalla, etc.).

Originally published as Green Chutney.

Adapted from a Meherwan Irani recipe (Meherwan Irani / Spicewalla).

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 Meherwan Irani / Spicewalla (published as “Green Chutney”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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