Cheese, garlic and chili mayonnaise

This recipe is very loosely based on almogrote, a cheese and garlic sauce from La Gomera in the Canary Islands.

It is made with a food processor, not a pestle and mortar, and uses jarlsberg cheese.

Ingredients

• 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon of sherry vinegar
• 230g of Jarlsberg cheese
• 6 fat garlic cloves, peeled
• 1 tablespoon of paprika powder
• 1 dried Chile de Arbole, ground to powder in a coffee grinder
• 1/2 cup of olive oil
• Sea salt to taste

Method

1. Blend the cheese, garlic, salt, paprika and powdered chili in a food processor with a blade to a rice-like consistency.

1. Add the egg yolk and sherry vinegar and drizzle the olive oil very slowly into the running blender as though making mayonnaise.

1. If it splits, another egg yolk or a teaspoon of warm water will normally rescue it.

See also

• A huge variety of different mayonnaise recipes