Red mojo from La Palma
Yurena y Candelaria Pérez in Puntagorda · 200 ml jar
£4.30
VAT included
In London you can find it in these shops.
Before you order it to your door, see if a shop is near you. They keep it for you and you pick it up when it suits you.
- Colmado Hackney
Chatsworth Road 61, London
Tue to Fri 12:00 to 20:00 · Sat to Sun 11:00 to 17:00
- Despensa Northcote
Northcote Road 74, London
Mon to Fri 10:00 to 19:00 · Sat 10:00 to 17:00
If there is no shop near you, we send it to your door.
Delivery to United Kingdom: £17.10, 4 to 6 days.
Delivery already includes customs and taxes. You pay nothing more when it arrives.
Who makes it
Candelaria Pérez is eighty-one and has made mojo all her life in Puntagorda, in the north-west of La Palma. She pounds it in a stone mortar that was her mother's. She made it for the family and for the fiestas.
Her granddaughter Yurena is thirty-four and was working in Tenerife. After the 2021 volcano she came back to the island to help and never left. She set up a small workshop with her grandmother's recipe.
Yurena says half the people who left La Palma will not come back. She did. Every jar opened abroad is one more reason for the village not to be left to the tourists.
How it is made
01
Peppers and the local palmera chillies from the village gardens are dried in the sun.
02
They are pounded in a mortar with garlic, cumin and coarse salt.
03
Wine vinegar and oil go in little by little, until it comes together.
04
It is packed in glass jars and pasteurised.
Canary Islands
Puntagorda is in the north of La Palma, among Canary pines and almond trees, six hundred metres above the sea. You can watch the sunset from the square.
What we are allowed to say
The heat comes from the capsaicin in the palmera chilli. The garlic and cumin are pounded, not ground, which is why the mojo has texture.
What they do so it lasts
- 01Peppers and garlic from gardens in the village.
- 02It leaves the island by boat, never by plane.
- 03The glass jar can be taken back to the shops that sell it.
Where your money goes
- Yurena y Candelaria Pérez
- £1.70
- 44%
- Transport
- £0.50
- 12%
- @seis
- £0.60
- 16%
- The shop or home delivery
- £1.10
- 28%
Out of £3.90, the price before VAT. The VAT, £0.40, goes to the state.
What the label says
- Format
- 200 ml jar
- Ingredients
- Olive oil, dried peppers, palmera chilli, garlic, wine vinegar, cumin and salt.
- Allergens
- Contains sulphites (vinegar).
- Storage
- In the cupboard. Once open, in the fridge.
- Best before
- 12 months from packing.
- Seal
- No seal
- Made in
- Puntagorda, Canary Islands
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