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Be careful not to breathe the fumes. Hot sauce uses the same ingredients but often has a few other spices added and then everything is blended together into a liquid.
Bring vinegar salt and sugar to a boil in a small saucepan over medium heat stirring until salt and sugar are dissolved about 2 to 3 minutes.
Make hot pepper sauce. Pour the hot sauce into sterilized glass bottles or jars and cover with airtight lids. Store the finished product in a cool place or in your refrigerator until the flavors meld together nicely. Or you can place your bottles of pepper sauce in the sun for 2 3 days to ripen quickly and then store in a cool place.
Hot pepper sauce is peppers marinated in vinegar for a few months until the vinegar takes on that spicy flavor making it a pepper vinegar. Hot sauce uses the same ingredients but often has a few other spices added and then everything is blended together into a liquid. It has a stronger pepper flavor and much less vinegar.
Use a sweet bell pepper to offset the heat from the hot peppers. The amount of vinegar is just to create a slight sauce and the flavor of vinegar is not meant to be dominating. The hot sauce is meant to be chunky so don t over process it.
Adding a thin layer of oil over the top of the sauce helps preserve the sauce. Wearing gloves seed and chop the chile peppers. Simmer vinegar salt and peppers in a large saucepan over medium heat for 10 minutes.
Be careful not to breathe the fumes. Let cool and then process in a blender until smooth. Store in a glass bottle and age for at least 3 months.
Strain sauce into small bottles for gifts or for home use. Place the habanero peppers mango onion green onions and garlic into a blender. Pour in the vinegar lime juice and vegetable oil cover the blender and pulse until the mixture is very finely chopped.
Stop the blender and add dry mustard powder salt curry powder and lime zest. Blend again until the sauce is smooth. How to make a fantastically hot pepper sauce.
Take fresh peppers from the garden jalapeño habanero poblano thai etc. Wash and cut off stems. Keep the seeds to add extra heat.
Get garlic cloves ready too the more the merrier. Get white vinegar salt olive oil. Bring vinegar salt and sugar to a boil in a small saucepan over medium heat stirring until salt and sugar are dissolved about 2 to 3 minutes.
Remove from heat and let stand 5 minutes. Pour hot mixture over peppers in jar. Cover and chill 3 weeks.
My second favorite thing to make is a dipping sauce great for healthy breaded chicken that consists of equal parts hot pepper sauce and mayo with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice blended together. This recipe is a big hit at football parties barbecues men s parties such as father s day or birthday and even a girls night out. The traditional way of making hot sauce involves fermenting either straight hot peppers or a mix of hot and sweet peppers and other aromatic veggies like garlic or onion.
When the fermentation time is up the whole shebang is blended with vinegar until smooth as silk. Hot trinidadian pepper sauce. In a trinidadian pepper sauce the pepper of choice is the scotch bonnet.
It s a very spicy pepper use in a lot of jerk dishes. This pepper sauce is hot hot hot the pepper sauce is often made with yellow scotch bonnet peppers and yellow mustard giving this sauce a school bus yellow color.