“It’s gonna be really sweet and spicy”
In this Hot Sauce’d video by Cooking with Granny’s Caroline Shin, Razeena Lyaub teaches her four-year-old daughter, Eliza, how to make a spicy mango sour. Shin met Lyaub, a home cook born in Guyana, through a friend of a friend who grew up in Richmond Hill.
“I chose Razeena and Eliza because I’ve always felt that immigrant moms (like my own mom and grandma) don’t get the credit they deserve for cooking all the time and feeding us,” Shin said. “Razeena is this sweet woman whose children love and respect [her] so much.”
Lyaub’s mango sour features sweet and mild ingredients (cucumber, mango, sugar) contrasted with a combination of garlic, Scotch Bonnet peppers that bring the fire and red-hued sazón “to make it really shine,” as Eliza says, though she finds the sauce too picante for her palate.
In the video, Lyaub says nothing is too spicy for her. Can you handle the heat in her Guyanese Mango Sour?
