Tatbeeleh or Shatta Sauce is a side essential to plenty of Palestinian dishes. If you are here, it means you are a spicy lover, and I have the perfect recipe for you that requires just a few simple ingredients and just one click on your food processor. That’s it!
You can top your Hummus Bil Lahme with this amazing Palestinian Tatbeeleh, spice up your Falafel, or give your Ful Medames Recipe (Stewed Fava Beans) plate the spicy kick that you want.
Food Group: Spicy🌶️
So, What is Shatta Spicy Sauce?
Tatbeeleh (Shatta) is a Middle Eastern hot sauce that will enchanter you to the point that you will be drizzling it in almost every meal you have. It’s a staple in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
It’s prepared by mixing green bell peppers, jalapeños, garlic, onions, olive oil, and some spices here and there. It has a clean chili delicious flavor that will make spicy lovers go: wow!
Irresistible
Why You Will Love This Recipe?
If you are a spicy food fan, this is as spicy as it gets!
Your Palestinian shatta sauce will be ready in no time.
The ingredients for this tatbeeleh shatta recipe are affordable and easy to find.
You can add this spicy sauce to almost everything that you want, don’t shy away. Try it with your favorite salads, Lebanese Fried Kibbeh Recipe, or that sandwich that you love.
It’s absolutely delicious!
Life Is Better When We Spice it
Tips to Remember
When adding the ingredients to the food processor, make sure they are chopped but still bite-sized.
You can use more or less jalapeños depending on how spicy you want your sauce to be.
The jalapeños can be deseeded or not.
You can add lemon juice to taste.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
You can store it in an airtight container for up to one week in the fridge.
You can play with the jalapeños amount according to your spicy preferences.
Yes, but it will change the color and a little bit of the taste.
Spice it Up!
Ingredients
Garlic cloves: delicious pungent flavor.
Green onions: mild oniony flavor.
Green bell pepper: the soft and bitter balance touch.
Jalapeños: they brighten the spicy kick.
Salt: add it to taste.
Aleppo pepper: this step is optional.
Lemon juice: the citric balance to the recipe.
Olive oil: adds a creamy consistency enhancing the flavors.
Quick Prep
This is probably the easiest sauce you will make in your life, here’s what you have to do:
Just add all the ingredients to a food processor and blitz until coarsely chopped but still bite-sized. That’s it.
Must-Try Recipes:
Authentic Middle Eastern Chicken Shawarma
Meat Stuffed Pitas (Palestinian Arayes)
Traditional Palestinian Musakhan Recipe
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Palestinian Tatbeeleh (Shatta) (Spicy Sauce)
Equipment
- Food processor
Ingredients
- 5 garlic cloves
- ⅓ bunch green onions
- ½ green bell pepper
- 1 large jalapeño, deseeded or not (depending on how spicy you like it)
- ½-1 teaspoon salt to taste
- ½ teaspoon Aleppo pepper optional
- 1-2 large lemons, juiced or to taste
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
Instructions
- Add all the ingredients to a food processor and blitz until coarsely chopped but still bite-sized. That's it.
Notes
- When adding the ingredients to the food processor, make sure they are chopped but still bite-sized.
- You can add more or less jalapeños depending on how spicy you want your sauce.
- The jalapeños can be deseeded or not.
- You can add lemon juice to taste.
6 Responses
Hi, I’m very keen to try this recipe but just wanted to check on the quantity for the green onions. How many green onions would you use for it?
Also do we use both the green and the white parts or just the green parts?
Hello, Its 1/3 of a bunch of green onions (1 bunch, comes with a few stalks) and its just the greens but you can use the whites too!
Made this and loved it! I’m tempted to make a bigger batch for my meal prep this week, how long does it keep in the fridge?
Hi, its good in an airtight container, refrigerated, for a week!
Made this to eat with manakeesh, I didn’t have green onions so I added a bit extra bell pepper and it was delicious. I also added a bit of yogurt so I could spread it out a bit more and I really enjoyed! Thank you for the recipe🇵🇸
This was delicious and so quick and easy to make.