One time when I was dorking around on the internet, I saw a recipe for “Homemade Hot Sauce”. The idea was intriguing, so when a friend gave me a few Habanero and a bunch of Kung Pao peppers, I decided to try and make my own.
If you happen to have an empty 12 oz bottle of rice vinegar around, it’s perfect for this recipe. If not, any empty bottle (preferably with a shaker top) will do.
Wash whatever bottle you have with hot soapy water, rinse thoroughly and let air dry
Ingredient list:
five or six cloves of garlic
1 T of Kosher Salt
15 or so black peppercorns
1 bay leaf
several hot peppers, any variety
1 cup of cider or white vinegar
Peel five or six cloves of garlic
add them to the bottle
add the kosher salt and peppercorns
bay leaf
rinse the peppers and dry them with a paper towel
cut the peppers into pieces that will fit in the jar, pour vinegar over the whole thing
cap and let it sit on your countertop looking pretty for a few days
then just put it in the fridge and use it like you would any other hot sauce, on eggs, meats, vegetables, ice cream..you get the picture.
I also tried just chopping a bunch of Kung Paos up in the food processor and putting them in a jar with white vinegar
and it was hot! It tastes like peppers, pure and simple. The other sauce though is complex and much more interesting. I have used it on/in scrambled eggs, I’ve added it to the egg mixture I use before breading chicken to fry (quite good, it just added a little kick!).
If you like hot stuff, give it a try!
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xxoo,
RMW
So yummy!
XOXO Lola:)
Looks great! I like a touch of heat but not three-mile-island kinda heat…I can’t imagine hot sauce on Ice Cream 🙂
I’m struggling to imagine hot sauce on ice cream too! This sounds like it has quite a bite to it! I suspect it might be a little out of my league 🙂
Hah!
I just threw that ice cream comment in there to see if you were paying attention!
Good job!!!
I am seriously addicted to hot pepper sauce, so believe me when I say I am GOING TO USE YOUR RECIPE!!
Thanks!
Hey Judier,
Let me know how you like it, and try the one with the garlic in it..IT IS REALLY YUMMY!
We do love our Hot Sauce here in Texas….but I promise you those Habaneros go a long way for being HOT HOT HOT!!! A Really Hot Letter H…thanks for the recipe!
Oh, perfect! I have a bunch of those jars leftover from when I was making home-made vanilla…and a slew of hot peppers in the garden (the only ones the dog doesn’t like to eat – ha!)
I will definitely be giving this a try. What a fun gift for Christmas, too!
Thanks for a delicious and creative link for Alphabe-Thursday’s letter “H”!
This made me happy.
A+
It’s nearly 1 am here in Germany. Why is it that I now crave something hot and spicy?
Thanks for sharing!!!
The jar looks so pretty sitting on the counter!
WOW…that looks so easy and it’s so beautiful! Thanks for sharing it..it would be a great gift idea! 😀
I love anything hot and those peppers sure look pretty sitting in that jar.
I bet my husband would LOVE this…even on ice cream. 🙂
That looks so great! It is almost too pretty to use.
My, oh my! My two grown sons would love this recipe. They are the HOT eaters in my family. I’m the wimpy one. Your photos really made the post special. Those peppers are so pretty.
This is so pretty and I am imagining very tasty! Thanks for the great idea! I appreciate your posts and enjoy stopping by. Anne
That’s one really “hot” and beautiful sauce! I like to spice up my food, and this recipe sounds wonderful. Thanks for the recipe.
So that’s how you make hot sauce! Unfortunately, I’m incredibly sensitive to anything spicy so I will probably never get the opportunity to make and use your hot sauce recipe… However, they do look really pretty in the jars! Maybe I can just use them for decoration 🙂 Or my husband can eat it with his ice cream 🙂
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Oh…HOT, HOT, HOT! (My HUSBAND might eat it! HEH…HEH…)
HAPPY H Day!
Coralie
Christmas present ideas thank you so much
that must surely be hot…i ll make it for sure…i love spices
I HearT Hot Sauce and yours is making me HungRY! Beautiful photography too!
Gosh, it is almost too pretty to use. I agree on it being a great Christmas present for my foodie friends.
Thanks.
I’ll have chocolate ice cream with hot sauce, please. Aha. I may be allergic to kitchens, but not to what comes out of them. A friend of mine from Guizhou province is a master of making the local hot sauce, and for years she’s kept me stocked. Good H post!
My son would have hot sauce on ice cream if he thought about it! This looks like a good Christmas gift idea for my hot-sauce-loving son.
Oh and I just happen to have a bag o’ peppers waiting not so patiently for me to make them into “something” today! Thanks for giving me a new recipe to try 🙂 .
Blessings,
Catherine
Now that looks very pretty and I reckon it would blow my head off!
I am having a massively busy week and it doesn’t look like stopping till Sunday so – sorry if I haven’t read chapter 2 yet – I will, and I look forward to it too 🙂
Hoo-wee! That looks hot!!!
(And really, really cool, too.)
=D
I love how beautiful it looks in the jar! This would make a lovely gift– say, a house warming gift for your friend with the fixer upper….
Love this! We grow about ten kinds of peppers each year. The Engineer makes sauces in varying degrees of hotness. One of his most popular (with his chile head frineds) is habanero sauce. It’s pretty brutal, only a few carrots to cut the heat. The one that the rest of us common folks can eat is his jalapeno sauce. Regardless, he just spins the peppers in a blender with apple cider vinegar to leave the pure essence of that pepper’s taste intact. I’d love to try some of yours! They look so pretty, and might offer an alternative to those who really don’t consider getting their heads blown off with hotness the ultimate experience. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Tina,
I love this sauce, it doesn’t blow your head off with hotness, you can actually taste the food.
Thanks for stopping by!
Well THIS need to get emailed to my hubs! He LOVES hot sauce, and we have a ton of peppers growing right now! Thank you for the delicious H!
Your hot sauce is really pretty! Hubs made some this fall with left over hot peppers. He made two batches. I think he threw out the first because he did not like how it turned out. The second one he used mostly habanaros but he blended his into a sauce before bottling it.
Oh, boy! I no longer need to go searching for a chili sauce recipe. Now, I need to find me some chilis to make your recipe. Thank you, kindly Ms. Rocky Mountain Woman. 😉
My mother has been making this hot sauce as long as I can remember. All thirteen of her children got burned on these at one point are another when toddlers so, she is the only one in the family that will use it on a regular bases.
I have to admit thought that I do like a dash of the hot stuff on my ham and beans.
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OMG! That made my eyes water just reading it. hahaha.
Oh goodness! I think every time I stop by and see one of your recipes…I say YUMMY! We do like hot sauce and this looks so pretty too!
Thanks for sharing!
Blessings & Aloha!
(thank you for stopping by and oh yes, you would enjoy a vacation to Hawaii :o) Take a look at the sites to the neighboring islands as well as what Oahu has to offer. Oahu is the island that most tourists get to see, but if you can check out another island too…they are more “laid-back”.)
that looks so pretty and would make such a perfect hostess gift … thanks for this one!!!
H is for Hot Sauce! Great idea! Easy to follow instructions too.
Best wishes,
Anna
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i love making flavored vinegars. i also do this and instead of vinegar use olive oil. cook with it and drizzle it on pizza and pasta.
Hi Gina,
I’ll bet it would be really good on pizza! Gotta try that one….