Harissa

Name: Harissa
Yield: Makes about ½ cup
Cuisine: African
Ingredients: 6 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; 6 , garlic cloves, minced; 2 tablespoons, paprika; 1 tablespoon, ground coriander; 1 tablespoon ground dried Aleppo, pepper; 1 teaspoon, ground cumin; 3/4 teaspoon, caraway seeds; 1/2 teaspoon, salt

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2018, America's Test Kitchen TV

Harissa is a spicy and aromatic paste used both as an ingredient and as a condiment throughout North Africa.

SERVESMakes about ½ cup

TIME10 minutes, plus 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Harissa is a spicy and aromatic paste used both as an ingredient and as a condiment throughout North Africa. The backbone of harissa—chiles—can vary greatly from recipe to recipe. For a condiment that we could make on the fly, we chose a mi...

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