Last weekend Mr. E.'s best friend got married in Vermont and we spent a long weekend celebrating the happy couple. Their rehearsal dinner was held at this wonderful restaurant in Burlington called the Penny Cluse cafe. It was AMAZING. The dinner was so good that we went back for brunch on Sunday before we left town and the sandwich I ate ranks in the top 5 sandwiches that I have ever eaten so I will attempting to replicate that later this week. Anyways, during dinner they served crusty sourdough bread (homemade I am sure...) with this wonderful dipping sauce (not the right word....) or oil and it was just the right mixture of zing with a touch of oil but primarily fruit juice based. I asked the waiter what was in the special sauce. He was nice enough to share that it was called Mojito sauce and provided the ingredients. I attempted to make it this weekend and the recipe follows. It was wonderful with bread and then I used the leftovers as salad dressing!
MOJITO SAUCE
For 2...
1/4 c. cilanto, washed and de-stemmed but not chopped
the juice of one orange
the juice of 2 limes
hearty dash of cayenne pepper
2 pressed garlic cloves
add olive oil until the taste seems good... not too much though, perhaps 1/8 cup?
Refreshingly good...
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