Aliter Assaturas (Another Sauce for Roast Meat)
Aliter Assaturas (Another Sauce for Roast Meat) is a traditional Ancient Roman recipe for a spiced sauce flavoured with fish sauce and served as a condiment for cold meats. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Ancient Roman version of Aliter Assaturas.
prep time
10 minutes
cook time
10 minutes
Total Time:
20 minutes
Serves:
4
Rating: 
Tags : Wild FoodSauce RecipesSpice RecipesHerb RecipesAncient Roman Recipes
Original Recipe
Aliter assaturas: petroselini scripulos sex, laser scripulos sex, gingiberis scripulos sex, lauri bacas quinque, condimenti, laseris radicem scripulos sex, origani scripulos sex, cyperis scripulos sex, costi modice, pyrethri scripulos tres, apii seminis scripulos VI, piperis scripulos XII, liquaminis et olei quod sufficit.
Translation
6 scruples each of parsley, laser, ginger, 5 laurel berries, sufficient seasoning, 6 scruples each of asafoetida root, oregano, and galingale, a little costmary, 3 scruples of pyrethrum, 6 scruples of celery-seed, 12 scruples of pepper, and sufficient liquamen and oil.
Method:
The recipe is simplicity itself: Blanch the chopsuey greens for 10 seconds in boiling water, rinse under a cold tap and chop then mix all the ingredients together and serve as a condiment for roast meat. The original recipe calls for pyrethrum, a form of chrysanthemum that's toxic. I've replaced this in the recipe with chopsuey greens. You could also use common daisy or ox-eye daisy greens.
Find more recipes from Apicius' De Re Coquinaria, part of this site's Ancient Roman recipes collection.
