"The ingredients rest on their own laurels, with slight variations per recipe, but most containing, at minimum, hot green chiles, cilantro, garlic, and warm spices blended into a fragrant soft paste. As DiNicola explains, there's room for experimentation, but those spices typically include cumin, black pepper, caraway seeds, coriander, and cardamom, which "leave a deep and rounded flavor lingering on the tongue.""
"Of course, those green hot peppers, often jalapeños, hold a powerful presence in schug. In our Tasting Table recipe for schug, adapted from chef Michael Solomonov, the heat comes from serrano peppers - exactly 20 of them to heat up your palate. They're tempered by the typical aromatic spices, along with garlic, salt, lemon juice, and vegetable oil. It's all blended together with either a food processor or traditional mortar and pestle."
Schug is a green, herb-packed Yemeni hot sauce made from hot green chiles, cilantro, garlic, lemon juice, oil, and warm spices. Typical spices include cumin, black pepper, caraway seeds, coriander, and cardamom, which create a deep, rounded flavor. Heat often comes from jalapeños or serranos; some recipes use large quantities for strong heat. The sauce blends into a fragrant soft paste using a food processor or mortar and pestle. Schug migrated from Yemen to Israel and became common at falafel and kebab shops. Schug transforms simple dishes like rice and beans with bold, herbaceous heat.
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