Rocoto Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Seed rocoto and cut into large pieces. (Wear gloves, and be careful about touching your face or eyes. These peppers are hot!).
• Place pepper, milk, and lime juice in blender.
• With the blender running, slowly add oil, to form a creamy sauce.
• Add salt to taste.

Steps:

• Prepare the cocktail sauce in a large bowl. Combine the chili sauce, ketchup, lemon juice, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, horseradish, rocoto chile paste, and cilantro, mix well with a rubber spatula, and set aside.
• In a large saucepot, fill with water and add the pickling spices, lemon halves, and hot pepper sauce and a generous amount of salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Skewer the shrimp, from tail to top, 5 per skewer, and add the shrimp to the boiling water. Cook for 5 minutes, remove from the water, plunge into an ice bath, and refresh for 5 minutes until the shrimp are completely cool.
• Serve on a platter with a bowl of the dipping sauce in the middle.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat; saute onion, aji peppers, and garlic until onion softens and mixture is bright yellow, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer mixture to a blender; add milk and blend until smooth. Add queso fresco and crackers to mixture and blend until sauce is smooth and the consistency of thick yogurt. Season with salt and pepper.