Nigerian Pepper Sauce

Name: Nigerian Pepper Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 1½ cups (350 ml)
Cuisine: African
Ingredients: about 2½ onions (300 g) Red Onion; about 12½ chiles (25 g) Thai Chile; about ¼ tsp (2 g) Salt; 1 cup veg oil (240 ml) Vegetable Oil; 1 tsp curry powder (5 ml) Curry Powder; 1 tsp dried thyme (5 ml) Thyme

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

CONDIMENT · GRILLED MEATS & STEWS

In the published recipe, this is the condiment for gin pepper sauce.

Sokoh's Nigerian pepper sauce for grilled meat.

On the jar

NIGERIAN

Method: stove
Yield: about 1½ cups
Ingredients: 6

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Vegetable Oil 240 mlCurry Powder 5 mlThyme 5 ml

Ingredients

Red Onionabout 2½ onions (300 g)
Thai Chileabout 12½ chiles (25 g)
Saltabout ¼ tsp (2 g)
Vegetable Oil1 cup veg oil (240 ml)
Curry Powder1 tsp curry powder (5 ml)
Thyme1 tsp dried thyme (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.

Get Nigerian Pepper Sauce + 4 more sauces like it

The full recipe and its 4 closest matches, straight to your inbox. Keep them for the next time you go looking.

No spam. Just the recipes, and first word when jars ship.

Companion jar

Nigerian Pepper Sauce wants a whisk and a stove. Make it from this page.

The jar carries pour-and-shake sauces. These are its closest cousins from kitchens like this one:

4 kitchens · 4 stars · 5 national awards

Ginger-Berbere Hot SauceNATIONAL AWARD WINNEROn the jar: AWASE
Gochujang SauceNATIONAL AWARD WINNEROn the jar: GOCHUJANG
Ssäm Sauce★ STARRED KITCHENOn the jar: SSAM
Buttermilk Vinaigrette★★★ KITCHENOn the jar: BUTTERMILK

Build the companion jar

$39.99 + S&H founding · first 500 · $49.99 after launch

Missed the form above? Get these recipes by email, and lock the founding price.

Provenance

Ozoz Sokoh works in Nigerian at Chop Chop; credentials include James Beard Emerging Voice in Books 2026 (Chop Chop).

Adapted from a Ozoz Sokoh recipe (Ozoz Sokoh / Food52 (gin pepper sauce)).

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 Ozoz Sokoh / Food52 (gin pepper sauce) (published as “Nigerian Pepper Sauce”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

Companion jar