Ethiopian Sunflower Seeds Dipping Sauce

My Ethiopian Cooking: Sunflower Seeds Dipping Sauce (Yesuff Fitfit)

Sunflower Seeds Dipping Sauce (Yesuff 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.

Ingredients:

2 cup sunflower seeds (Suff)
3 cups water or more
2 tomatoes (finely chopped)
1 hot green pepper (finely chopped)
2 scallions/green onions (finely chopped)
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
¼ teaspoon ginger root powder or 1 teaspoon ginger juice
½ teaspoon fresh basil (minced)
Salt and black pepper to taste

Preparation:

1st Step: Rinse the sunflower seeds with cold water;

2nd Step: In a cooking pot, cover the sunflower seeds in cold water; boil for 15 minutes or until soft;

3rd Step: Drain and place the cooked sunflower seeds in a food processor; add three cups of cold water; blend until all the seeds are crushed;

4th Step: Strain the sunflower sauce into a container; discard the sunflower sediments; cover the container and keep it in fridge to cool;

5th Step: Combine the finely chopped vegetables with lemon, oil, basil, garlic, ginger, salt and black pepper; mix it well;

6th Step: Add the vegetable mixture into the sunflower sauce container, mix well and keep in the fridge.

7th Step: Break Injera (Ethiopian 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.

Serving 6 persons

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