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Sour peach hot sauce

By
16 December 2025
Makes 1.5 litres
Easy
10 minutes
30 minutes

“I've made a variation of this sauce before, but I love this one so much, I want to give it as a gift! This is a fresh sauce, with no preservatives,so you’ll need to eat it within two weeks.” – Khanya Mzongwana

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Ingredients

Method
  • ¼ cup canola oil
  • 1 medium onion, roughly chopped
  • 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 1 t fresh ginger, grated
  • 1 red pepper, quartered and seeded
  • 1 T smoked Spanish paprika
  • 15 g bird’s-eye chillies , chopped
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 1 x 400 g can peach halves in syrup
  • 1 cup white wine vinegar

1. Heat the oil in a pan. Gently fry the onion, garlic and ginger over a medium heat.

2. Add the pepper, paprika and chillies and fry until the pepper softens and the onions begin to caramelise, stirring occasionally. Season well.

3. Add the peaches, reserving the syrup, and the vinegar. Stir, then pour the contents of the pan into a blender and add ¼ cup of the peach syrup. Blend until smooth. The sauce keeps for up to two weeks in the fridge.

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Productions: Khanya Mzongwana
Photographer: Toby Murphy
Food Assistants: Chevonne Fourie

Khanya Mzongwana

Recipe by: Khanya Mzongwana

If you're anything like our deputy food editor Khanya Mzongwana, you're obsessed with uniqueness and food with feeling. Cook her family-tested favourites, midweek winners and her mouth-wateringly fresh takes on plant-based eating.

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