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This is my own fermented hot sauce recipe that uses only 3 ingredients. Add the vinegar if using and sugar if you prefer a sweeter hot sauce like sriracha and more brine to desired thickness.
Combine salt with warm filtered water to create a brine.
Homemade fermented hot sauce. Place the fermented peppers onions garlic and carrot into a blender. Add 1 cup of the brine and blend until smooth as smooth as possible. Add the vinegar if using and sugar if you prefer a sweeter hot sauce like sriracha and more brine to desired thickness.
How to make homemade fermented hot sauce. After the chilies have fermented strain the fermented peppers and reserve the brine in another container. Combine in the fermented chilies in a blender with the brine from your ferment and mix in vinegar sugar and oil.
Purée in a blender until very smooth taste and adjust the salt if necessary. When the peppers have fermented for the desired length of time it is time to turn them into sauce. Place the peppers in a blender reserving the brine.
Blend until smooth adding more brine if desired to make a thinner sauce. Apple cider vinegar may also be added to taste. Here s how easy it is to ferment your own hot sauce.
Combine salt with warm filtered water to create a brine. Fill a jar with peppers and garlic. Cover the jar with a fermentation lid or cheesecloth and let ferment for 5 7 days or until the brine looks cloudy.
Basic fermented hot sauce ingredients. 20 peppers less hot varieties for milder hot sauce hotter varieties for spicier 6 cloves of garlic chopped. Additional fruits or vegetables for flavor after fermenting.
1 2 cup 3 brine instructions below 1 2 cup vinegar. Spices seasonings or herbs to taste. Ingredients needed to make fermented hot sauce.
1 pound chili peppers stems removed i m using red serrano peppers 1 quart unchlorinated water. 3 tablespoons salt. 1 cup white wine vinegar to your preference use a good quality vinegar for better quality hot sauce how to make fermented hot sauce the recipe method.
Fermented hot sauce is actually fermented hot peppers first made into a mash and then aged for a length of time in a brine solution of salt and water. This is the process that creates the rich and deep umami flavor in a hot sauce and is applied to other food products as well. Seasoned with fresh garlic this fermented hot sauce is rich with flavor bright and fiery.
Use a variety of ripe hot peppers for the best flavor. Red jalapeños cherry bomb peppers scotch bonnets and aji amarillo chilis all work well especially when mixed together. Prep time 10 mins.
Yes i know doing this makes this sauce unrepeatable but so be it. No vintage of a wine is exactly repeatable either and since fermented hot sauce keeps almost as long as wine it d be fun to play with annual vintages. I waited until late september 2012 to harvest all my chiles and i grabbed both the red and green.
This is my own fermented hot sauce recipe that uses only 3 ingredients. You can make it as hot as you like and use a variety of peppers too. How to make fermented hot sauce grow forage cook ferment.
Described as unbelievably good colleen s recipe uses dried chilis onions and garlic to make the best hot sauce in the world.