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Let it simmer for a minute before adding 3 oz of bourbon to the pan. What we will tell you is this.
When you make your own hot sauce at home you are free to incorporate whatever ingredients that please you.
Make your own hot pepper sauce. When you make your own hot sauce at home you are free to incorporate whatever ingredients that please you. Also you re free to emphasize particular flavors that other sauces don t offer such as more superhot chili peppers or a batch that focuses heavily on fruit. In this way making your own hot sauce guarantees it will be unique.
What we will tell you is this. The main ingredients in any hot pepper sauce besides the peppers are tomato sauce vinegar onion garlic and any other salt spice combinations you may like. The trick is to use more hot peppers if you want the sauce very hot like up to 2 pounds of peppers per batch or if you prefer a milder sauce you can use less about 1 2 pound should do it.
Hot sauce or chili sauce is a condiment made and widely used throughout the caribbean. Each island and household has its own recipes and you can always find a bottle of homemade pepper sauce in most homes. Don t be surprised if your host or hostess asks you if you would like to have some pepper sauce with your meal.
Add worcestershire soy oil and honey for a smokin wing sauce. As you can see it is chunky but it can easily be run through a strainer to make a pucketa pucketa sauce. You get the picture.
It is a building block. 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. My included recipe yields 5 ounces of strained sauce which is the size of a typical hot sauce bottle.
To make enough strained cayenne pepper sauce to fill a 5 ounce bottle you ll need to start with 10 ounces of cayenne peppers 6 garlic cloves and 1 2 cup of vinegar. This is approximate but should get you quite close. To make hot sauce start by putting minced garlic diced onion deseeded hot peppers and tomato sauce into a food processor or blender.
Then puree the mixture until it s smooth and pour it into a saucepan. Next bring the sauce to a simmer over medium heat before adding some vinegar. Pour the mix from your blender into the pan and bring it to a boil.
Keep stirring while you add 1 4 cup of white sugar and salt to taste. Let it simmer for a minute before adding 3 oz of bourbon to the pan. Again let the sauce simmer until it has the consistency you prefer.
Pulse chiles garlic onions and kosher salt in a food processor until you have a rough puree. Transfer to a 1 quart glass gar loosely cover and let stand at room temperature overnight. Add vinegar stir and loosely cover.
Let stand at room temperature for 1 to 7 days. Using a knife make a small slit in each of the peppers. This slit allows the vinegar to more easily penetrate the peppers and soak up it s goodness.
Stuff all of the peppers into the empty glass bottle. If using the garlic and peppercorns smash the garlic cloves and add those along with the peppercorns.