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Placing a funnel into the container gently pour the vinegar over the peppers. Adding a thin layer of oil over the top of the sauce helps preserve the sauce.
The hot sauce is meant to be chunky so don t over process it.
Making pepper sauce vinegar. Pour the heated vinegar over the peppers filling the jars to the top. Tightly fasten the lid in place and store jars in a cool dark place for 2 months. After two months you can use the pepper sauce.
Keep it stored in a cool dark place such as your pantry and when it gets low top it off with more vinegar no need to boil the vinegar again. Pepper sauce or peppa sauce to use the southern parlance is a dead simple southern staple the recipe couldn t be easier. Peppers and vinegar in a bottle.
But don t let the simplicity fool you. Pepper sauce can elevate a bland bowl of collard greens to something truly special. Horseradish sauce salt cayenne pepper hot peppers margarine and 2 more sweet roasted red pepper sauce chili pepper madness brown sugar cumin roma tomato honey salt apple cider vinegar and 4 more.
Adding a teaspoon of olive oil will make your homemade hot pepper sauce hotter. Shake your jar well and allow it to sit for a couple of weeks. Adding more than a teaspoon of olive oil will make your vinegar based hot pepper sauce recipe too hot in our opinion.
Pour vinegar into a measuring cup with a lip. Placing a funnel into the container gently pour the vinegar over the peppers. Fill containers to the bottom of the neck being careful not to overfill.
Allow vinegar to cool. Back in eastern north carolina where i was raised our pepper vinegar was made with cayenne peppers and apple cider vinegar. Here is alabama it is usually made with tabasco peppers and white vinegar.
I still prefer the apple cider vinegar but if you prefer a much milder vinegar use the white vinegar. 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. Store the sauce in your fridge for up to 3 months. Put the carrots peppers garlic and vinegar in with the butter.
Simmer them until the carrots have become softened about 5 minutes. Cover the pan partially while you re cooking the sauce. The habaneros will produce extremely spicy fumes that could make your eyes water.
Tightly pack a clean decorative glass jar empty malt or red wine vinegar jars work great with the peppers. Bring vinegar salt and sugar to a boil over medium heat stirring until salt and sugar are dissolved about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand for about 5 minutes.
Pour hot vinegar mixture over the peppers. 1 vinegar and water. Cool it and then pour it on the peppers in the bottle.
I also heat some oil cool it and add it too adding curry leaves and mustard and methi seeds to the hot oil gives it a nice flavour. The oil works as a seal prevents mold.