🇸🇴 Somali Cuisine

Basbaas

Somali Hot Chili Sauce

Prep Time 10 min
Servings 8
Difficulty Easy
Calories 16 kcal

A fiery fresh chili sauce blended with lime juice, cilantro, and garlic, the essential Somali condiment served alongside every meal.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Remove stems from chilies and roughly chop them, keeping seeds for maximum heat.
  2. 2 Place chilies, garlic, cilantro, lime juice, salt, and water in a blender.
  3. 3 Blend until you reach your desired consistency, either smooth or slightly chunky.
  4. 4 Taste and adjust salt and lime juice to achieve a balance of heat, acid, and salt.
  5. 5 Transfer to a small serving bowl or jar.
  6. 6 Serve alongside any Somali dish as the essential condiment, keeps refrigerated for one week.

Did You Know?

A Somali meal without basbaas is like a sentence without punctuation, technically complete but missing something essential.