Spicy Cheese Sauce (Salsa Picante de Queso)

Ingredients

• red ají (ají colorado), well ripened
• 1 head onion
• 1 piece fresh cheese (queso fresco)
• 1 tomato, roasted in the embers
• 1 sprig guacatay (huacatay, a Peruvian black-mint herb)
• 1 cooked potato
• salt
• sour orange juice (naranja agria)

Instructions

1. Choose well-ripened red ají in the quantity needed.
2. Roast them in the embers, remove the seeds, wash them, and leave them to soak for an hour.
3. Put them in a mortar with a head of onion, a piece of fresh cheese, a tomato roasted in the embers, a sprig of guacatay, a cooked potato, and salt.
4. Grind everything very well.
5. Once in the sauce boat, finish seasoning it with sour orange juice.