How To Make Aji Verde
Try your hand on this Peruvian spicy green sauce! Our aji verde makes the perfect sauce for tacos, meats, and many more tasteful meals.
Serves:
Ingredients
- ½cupmayonnaise
- 2 cupsfresh cilantrolightly packed
- 2medium jalapeñosseeds and membranes removed but reserved, roughly chopped
- 2garlic clovesroughly chopped
- ⅓cupCotijaor Parmesan cheese, grated
- 1tbsplime juice
- ¼tspfine sea salt
Instructions
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In a food processor or blender, combine the mayonnaise, cilantro, jalapenos, garlic, cotija, lime juice, and sea salt.
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Blend until the cilantro has broken into very tiny pieces and the sauce is green and mostly smooth.
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Serve on desired meals, and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
If the flavor is too overwhelming, blend in 1 tablespoon of olive oil while running the food processor. If it’s not spicy enough, add some of the reserved jalapeño seeds and blend again. For a more tangy sauce, add another tablespoon of lime juice and/or a pinch of salt.
Nutrition
- Calories: 970.25kcal
- Fat: 101.16g
- Saturated Fat: 20.32g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 25.68g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 53.89g
- Carbohydrates: 7.28g
- Fiber: 1.42g
- Sugar: 1.61g
- Protein: 9.04g
- Cholesterol: 85.05mg
- Sodium: 1235.96mg
- Calcium: 347.10mg
- Potassium: 244.88mg
- Iron: 0.47mg
- Vitamin A: 160.95µg
- Vitamin C: 44.02mg
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