Recipe for the fantastic Hot sauce from Naf-Naf Grill?

Hello.

Naf-naf grill has started selling their fantastic hotsauce. But it is kinda expensive (5 bucks for 8 oz). Can any of the culinary mavens in this here forum come up with a reasonable facsimile?

The Ingredient list says: Jalapenos, garlic, cilantro, vegetable oil, water, salt, blended spices.

What do you surmise the blended spices are? Cumin? Sumac?

Thanks

I have never been there, but I just bottled my own. I used 5 types of red colored peppers (cayenne, red Serrano, red jalapeno, fresno red, and hot little red bulb peppers), carrot, garlic, kosher salt, and vinegar. I will post pictures when I figure out how to do that. They are beauties and tasty.

Cumin is definitely present.

Puckjam wrote:I will post pictures when I figure out how to do that.

You can easily use http://imgur.com .

You upload from your computer to Imgur, anonymously is fine, and it hosts your image and gives you back a public URL to use.

It's a schug, of which there are countless recipes:

http://www.thisamericanbite.com/schug-recipe/

I don't recall Naf Naf's hot sauce (I've only eaten there twice)... is it similar to Pita Inn's? That I'd be very happy to find a recipe for.

spinynorman99 wrote:It's a schug, of which there are countless recipes:

http://www.thisamericanbite.com/schug-recipe/

Thanks. I knew LTHForum will not disappoint!

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JoelF wrote:I don't recall Naf Naf's hot sauce (I've only eaten there twice)... is it similar to Pita Inn's? That I'd be very happy to find a recipe for.

Naf's hot sauce on a PI lunch special would be ideal. I like PI's hot sauce, but Naf's, imo, is just waaaaay better.

lougord99 wrote:http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38981

I am a hot sauce fanatic too. I have too many bottles in the fridge for someone who lives/cooks/eats alone.

But, I wanted that specific hot sauce, not something general. Thanks anyway.

Can anyone school me on schug?

Is it a specialty that can only be found in some middle eastern restaurants?

Normally, when I go to Mid Eastern joints and ask for "hot sauce," I'm almost always gonna get some form of jarred, oversalty, sambal-olek type of stuff, which is just plain boring, imo. Should I be asking for "schug" at at any mid eastern type of joint?

seebee wrote:Is it a specialty that can only be found in some middle eastern restaurants?

Yes, specifically Israeli ones (I guess it's originally from Yemen, but I don't believe we have too many Yemeni restaurants here).

seebee wrote:Should I be asking for "schug" at at any mid eastern type of joint?

Never hurts to try, although try not to sound like Nancy Gribble (the "ch" is pronounced like "kh").

cilantro wrote:

seebee wrote:Is it a specialty that can only be found in some middle eastern restaurants?

Yes, specifically Israeli ones (I guess it's originally from Yemen, but I don't believe we have too many Yemeni restaurants here).

seebee wrote:Should I be asking for "schug" at at any mid eastern type of joint?

Never hurts to try, although try not to sound like Nancy Gribble (the "ch" is pronounced like "kh").

Ok, so, next question is...
Anyone know which Chicagoland joints are Israeli? I know Naf Naf is.

Mizrahi Grill in Highland Park (where I enjoyed some schug/zhug not an hour ago), Taboun in Skokie (don't know if they have it, though). I think there are one or two others.

Tks, Cilantro.

I was in Woth at Fattoush last night. I asked the (obviously new) server for hot sauce, and she handed over a bottle of Louisiana. When I asked if they had any schug, she looked at me like I had two heads.

Sabra sells both red and green versions (based on the pepper used) of schug:

http://sabra.com/products/Red-Schug

But that takes us full circle to the point of the thread.

And speaking of recipes, there's a good one in Jerusalem.