Salsa Macha

Name: Salsa Macha
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about ¾ cup (150 ml)
Cuisine: Latin
Ingredients: 5 ml (1 tsp) toasted sunflower seeds Sunflr Seeds; 5 ml (1 tsp) good honey Honey; 1/2 tsp chile de arbol (2.5 ml) Arbol Chile; 118 ml (½ cup) vegetable oil Vegetable Oil; 30 g Ancho Chile; about ¼ tsp (2 g) Salt

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

TABLE SALSA · CEVICHE, TACOS OR EGGS

In the published recipe, this is the table salsa for tomato ceviche. The same recipe pairs it with Cucumber-Scotch Leche de Tigre, the leche de tigre.

Lastra's salsa macha for tomato ceviche.

On the jar

SALSA

Method: blend
Yield: about ¾ cup
Ingredients: 6

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Sunflr Seeds 5 mlHoney 5 mlArbol Chile 3 mlVegetable Oil 120 ml

Ingredients

Sunflr Seeds5 ml (1 tsp) toasted sunflower seeds
Honey5 ml (1 tsp) good honey
Arbol Chile1/2 tsp chile de arbol (2.5 ml)
Vegetable Oil118 ml (½ cup) vegetable oil
Ancho Chile30 g
Saltabout ¼ tsp (2 g)

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

Santiago Lastra. Mexican / British contemporary. Cited awards include: Michelin 1* (Kol, London); World's 50 Best #49 (2025).

Originally published as Salsa Macha Ancho–Árbol.

Adapted from a Santiago Lastra recipe (Santiago Lastra / Country & Town House (tomato ceviche)).

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 Santiago Lastra / Country & Town House (tomato ceviche) (published as “Salsa Macha Ancho–Árbol”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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