Last Monday, a couple of friends gifted us with a huge bag of assorted hot peppers from their garden. I’d been pondering all week about what to do with them, when our Friday evening dinner guest brought over even more hot peppers that he’d grown! Our fridge was silly with all sorts of tiny peppers, so I decided to round those suckers up and try my hand at making hot sauce!
My recipe here is adapted from this one for simple, home made hot sauce.
- 2c assorted hot peppers, seeded and sliced into 1″ pieces
- 1/4c olive oil
- white vinegar
- 4 cloves of garlic, sliced
- 1/4c maple syrup (or more, to taste)
Preheat the oven to 400, and while that heats up get those peppers prepped. Toss them with the olive oil in a shallow baking pan and roast, stirring every 15-20 minutes, until the peppers start to blacken.
Remove the peppers from the oven, transfer to a pan with the garlic, and add enough vinegar to cover. Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes.
Let the mixture cool, then transfer it in batches into your blender or food processor with the maple syrup. Blend until smooth, transfer to a glass bottle or mason jar, and store in the fridge.
This sauce had some serious kick, which the maple syrup helped mellow significantly. If you like your hot sauce to be on the sweeter side, try upping the maple syrup. I really like to taste that vinegar, so I tried not to make it too sweet. It might be fun to experiment with other sweeteners! Maybe toss 1/4 apricot preserves into the food processor with everything else instead of adding the maple syrup at the end? Brown sugar would be nice, too.
Have any of you guys made your own hot sauce? What recipe did you use? I definitely want to do this again once I’ve used up this first batch!
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I’m a hot sauce addict and this one sounds great! The peppers are so gorgeous in the baking dish.
Aren’t they pretty? Not pictured is that I had to keep leaving the room to sneeze. Chopping up that many hot peppers is no joke!
[...] Preheat the oven to 400 while cutting peppers. Place them in a casserole dish with olive oil, tossing them with a wooden spoon or tongs to coat evenly with oil. roast them for 15-20 minutes until the skins start to blister and blacken. Transfer from the dish to a pan with the garlic, and add enough vinegar to cover. Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes. Let the mixture cool completely and then start blender in your food processor or blender in batches until your hot sauce is complete. You’re now ready to use your hot sauce in what ever dishes you want. If you would like to find out more about this recipe or other like it, be sure to check out Glue and Glitter. [...]
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