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I’ve made this hot sauce with cherry bomb peppers, cayenne peppers, habaneros, and tabasco peppers. If I have a lot of really hot chiles, such as habaneros, I like to mix them with some milder chiles. Other than having different textures, as you know different peppers have varying spice levels–you’ve heard of the scoville scale? Spicier peppers will make hotter hot sauce, and milder peppers will make milder hot sauce.

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Sometimes I like to strain out the pulp for a thinner more watery hot sauce, and other times I leave the pulp in for a thicker hot sauce (which can be thinned to a pourable consistency)!īasically, you can use this method to make hot sauce with any hot chili peppers, but feel free to adjust it to meet your own preferences! Some peppers contain more seeds and others are more hollow.īecause of this your hot sauce may end up being thicker or thinner, and if it’s too thick you can add water or vinegar to thin. Some are fleshier and contain more water, while some have thinner skins. But I’ve also made them with hot peppers from the grocery store and it turns out great that way as well!ĭifferent chiles have different water content. I love making hot sauce from my home grown chilies and varieties I buy at my local farmer’s market. The main differences will be the color of the sauce, the heat level, sweetness, and flavor of the peppers themselves. You can make hot sauce from green chilies or red/orange ripe chilies. Most hot sauces have other seasonings like garlic, onion, and sometimes contain spices like cumin, coriander, or even mustard seeds.īut whether you want a clean heat where the fruity flavor of the peppers come through or a well seasoned hot sauce, this recipe is a great place to start and make your own! The Hot Chili Peppers:

The basic premise is to lightly ferment hot peppers before blending them into a sauce, similarly to making sauerkraut and the like, then mix them up with vinegar. You can use a variety of hot chilies to make your own hot sauce, and the combinations of peppers and seasonings you can use are endless! Homemade hot sauce is a fun and delicious project to tackle when you have a bounty of hot peppers. With this easy homemade hot sauce you may never have to buy hot sauce again! Well, that’s probably not true but you will get to enjoy the most delicious hot sauce, and one that tastes even better for having made it yourself!