Recipes/Green Zchug

Get three or four hot green peppers (about a cup or so), wash and cut into 1cm lengths. Put them in your food processor. Add a handful of cilantro (cusbara), two or three garlic cloves, a teaspoon of cumin and salt. Add a tablespoon or so of olive oil, and grind it up.

After it's become a paste, add some red pepper flakes if it's not spicy enough or if you just want the variety. A spoonful of pepper flakes is probably enough.

You'll need to push the mixture back down into the blades as you work, since the blades will fling the (spicy!) mixture against the walls of the processor. Be careful you don't get it in your eyes -- it'll burn like hell! As you work, note the texture. I like mine kind of on the dry side but still spreadable. Some like theirs wet and runny. Just add some lemon juice, water or oil as you prefer to adjust the moistness and spreadability.