About Lusa
From the Nafusa Mountains to Your Kitchen.
Lusa is a traditional Libyan chilli condiment. This is where it comes from and why it matters.
The Nafusa Mountains.
The Nafusa Mountains rise from the Libyan plateau south of Tripoli. A limestone ridge that has been home to the same people for thousands of years. This is the Jebel Nafusa: ancient, arid, and fiercely proud of what it produces.
Lusa - لوسة - is one of those things. A condiment born not just to preserve the summer harvest, but to bring people together. The making of Lusa is traditionally a social practice passed down through generations. Communities come together to dry and preserve the harvest. In this way, any time a jar is opened, the people and the land that made it are remembered for the love, life, and effort put into every spoonful.
Day to day, it's simple: spread across bread, stirred into a stew, spooned through couscous. Dark, oil-based, tomato-forward - its flavour built slowly from dried ingredients that concentrate over time. The kind of thing that makes everything it touches taste like it was always meant to be that way.
Made in Chorlton
Small Batches. Lovingly made.
A family recipe passed down from Ali's mum and to your table. Every jar is a labour of love; cooked, jarred and labelled by hand.
