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Ethiopian Sunflower Seeds Dipping Sauce

Sunflower seeds, tomatoes and hot green pepper come together in this sauce, fragrant with ginger and simmered on the stove.

40 min · Serves 6 · Easy

Serves
6

Ingredients

Time
Prep 20 min · Cook 20 min · 40 min total
Difficulty
easy
  1. 1

    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.

    15 min
  2. 2

    Drain and place the cooked sunflower seeds in a food processor; add three cups of cold water; blend until all the seeds are crushed.

  3. 3

    Strain the sunflower sauce into a container; discard the sunflower sediments; cover the container and keep it in fridge to cool.

  4. 4

    Combine the finely chopped vegetables with lemon, oil, basil, garlic, ginger, salt and black pepper; mix it well.

  5. 5

    Add the vegetable mixture into the sunflower sauce container, mix well and keep in the fridge.

  6. 6

    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.

  7. 7

    Serve it cold. Keep the sunflower sauce in fridge.

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