Jalapeno Sauce

Although I have not yet had a real culinary experience in the USA, I’m glad we live in Arizona and not just because of all the beautiful landscapes and extraordinary nature.  The Mexican food has rooted into the local culture and you can get hot and tasty Mexican dishes almost everywhere. In addition, you can buy almost any species of hot pepper in any groceries store.
I love hot pepper- cooked or fresh. In Israel, Dima was going crazy because I had a habit (not necessarily a bad one if you ask me) of eating Greek yogurt with a lot of  jalapeno sauce before going to bed.

Piquancy or “spicy” is not considered as one of the flavors such as sour or sweet.
The acute taste is a feeling of a burning sensation in the pain receptors in the tongue rather than in the taste glands. Therefore, if we cut, for example, hot peppers without gloves we will have a feeling of heat in the fingers.
People who love spicy food- cann’t do without it! Once you eat and like spicy food, every other dish that is just “well-seasoned” and not spicy enough, will feel a little tasteless.

If the sensation is painful, why does it feel so good?
The active ingredient in hot peppers, such as jalapeno or red chili, is capsaicin.
Capsaicin stimulates pain receptors in the tongue. The pain receptors, which of course- panic when meet with hot peppers, warn the center of the pain in the brain, “It hurts us!” And in response the pain center sends an elite unit called “endorphins”.
I didn’t get confused fellows, endorphins, which are secreted during sports and sex are secreted when you eat spicy food (and you must wonder if eating it, also burns the same amount of calories). The endorphins try to soothe the pain in the tongue and convey a pleasant sensation in the body – so that the acuity feeling is burned in our minds as a pleasant experience.

Now, spicy peppers do not just taste good; there are also super healthy.
It has a daily amount of vitamin A and just like a red bell pepper, it has more vitamin C than in an orange.
The presence of capsaicin in the mouth and in the throat stimulates the flow of respiratory fluids. In times of sickness (when  having a cold, a sore throat or a respiratory infection) it makes the mucus more liquid and makes it easier to eject it from the body – so next time you are sick, throw a few pieces of hot pepper into your soup.
In addition, many studies in the last decade have proven that eating hot peppers contributes to, digestion, metabolism and weight loss (perhaps that’s why I consume so much of it).

So the next recipe is a recipe for jalapeno sauce. The recipe is for spicy food lovers. It can be added to any soup, to spicy-fish dish, mix it with Greek yogurt as a healthy dip, or just eat it in a sandwich.

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Cooking Time: 10

Ingredients

• 8 large garlic cloves
• 13-15 jalapenos
• Salt to taste, I put about half a teaspoon of salt
• A quarter cup of olive oil, if you want it to be thinner you can add more oil.
• And half a bunch of coriander / parsley.

Instructions

1

Rinse the peppers and cut only the head. Use the whole pepper (fresh)- with its core and seeds.

2

Peel the garlic, and add it to a bowl with the peppers, the salt, the oil and the coriander / parsley.

3

You should be careful with the coriander / parsley. It's worth adding a little bit each time. This way you can control the level of acuity. If it's too hot, add more coriander / parsley and mix until you reach the taste that suits you. I usually use half a bunch.

4

I put everything in a bowl and grind with a stick blender, because it is not very strong (but still good enough for me), the texture will not be smooth. Either way, it tastes good and any food processor or Blender will do the trick.

Notes

You can freez some of it- and it will last for few month.

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