ETHIOPIAN SUNFLOWER SEEDS DIPPING SAUCE

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Sunflower Seeds Dipping Sauce (Yesuf Fitfit) is one of the side-dishes of Ethiopia, usually prepared during Lent. It is used with Injera (Ethiopian flat bread). There are many ways of preparing a dish from the sunflower seeds and this is one of my recipes.

Provided by yewoinfamilycooking

Categories     Peppers

Time 40m

Yield 6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

2 cups sunflower seeds
3 cups water (or more)
2 tomatoes (finely chopped)
1 hot green pepper (finely chopped)
2 scallions (finely chopped) or 2 green onions (finely chopped)
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon ginger powder or 1 teaspoon ginger juice
1/2 teaspoon fresh basil (minced)
salt and black pepper

Steps:

  • Rinse the sunflower seeds with cold water.
  • In a cooking pot, cover the sunflower seeds in cold water; boil for 15 minutes or until soft.
  • Drain and place the cooked sunflower seeds in a food processor; add three cups of cold water; blend until all the seeds are crushed.
  • Strain the sunflower sauce into a container; discard the sunflower sediments; cover the container and keep it in fridge to cool.
  • Combine the finely chopped vegetables with lemon, oil, basil, garlic, ginger, salt and black pepper; mix it well.
  • Add the vegetable mixture into the sunflower sauce container, mix well and keep in the fridge.
  • Break Injera (Ethiopian flat bread) in small pieces; dip the pieces in the sunflower-vegetable sauce; or use it as dipping sauce for all kinds of bread.
  • Serve it cold.
  • Keep the sunflower sauce in fridge.

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