Chirmol

A roasted tomato sauce for steak, pork, or chicken.

13 min Prep: 5 min Cook: 8 min
Serves: 3 Save

Ingredients (8)

  • 6 large plum tomatoes
  • 1 medium white onion, peeled and sliced in half
  • 3 large garlic cloves, unpeeled
  • 2 to 4 serrano chiles, seeded, deveined and minced
  • 1 cup chopped cilantro
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Directions

  1. Place tomatoes, onion and garlic cloves in a dry cast-iron skillet or griddle pan over medium-high heat. Roast until all sides are charred, turning occasionally, 8 to 10 minutes.
  2. Remove tomatoes and onion; place in food processor. Peel garlic cloves; add to tomato mixture. Pulse until roughly chopped.
  3. Transfer to a bowl; add serrano chiles, cilantro, lime juice, salt and pepper.
  4. Refrigerate, covered, up to 2 weeks.

Bloody Maria

Ingredients (8)

  • 1.5 oz. Don Julio Blanco
  • 0.5 oz. Lemon Juice
  • 4 oz. Tomato Juice
  • 1 pinch of Salt and Pepper
  • 3 dashes of Worcestershire Sauce
  • 4 dashes of Tabasco sauce
  • Ice
  • 1 Lemon Wedge, 1 Celery Stick, 1 Cherry Tomato