Mat Blak Ember Curried Tomato Hot Sauce

Curried tomato hot sauce.

A sweetness from fresh tomato lends to a savoury note from curry, vinegary sharpness cutting through bringing balance and elegance, followed by an aggressive heat.

This sauce is deeply personal to me and my family with the recipe handed down many many generations of old colonial New Zealand mothers dating back to the mid 1800s. Every Kiwi mother has made some version of a tomato relish however my closest friend’s mother (who I fondly called my 2nd mum) made the best. Upon tasting this at a very early age I became obsessed and had it with everything. Including fish fingers, eggs, bacon and burgers.