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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I would like the habanero sauce recipe to try!


3 posted on 08/23/2012 11:39:08 PM PDT by willyd
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To: willyd
I would like the habanero sauce recipe to try!

Sure thing.

Habanero Sauce

16 ounce Salsa jar, emptied and sterilized
Here is a picture of a Salsa jar next to a standard 26 ounce Spaghetti Sauce jar so you can get an idea of the sizes we are referring to.
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Habanero peppers, sliced open (if you look at the picture you can see that both my habaneros and tabascos are either sliced open or snapped in half. The habanero on the bottom left of the jar shows a slice mark on it).
6 Cherry Tomatoes or 1 regular tomato cut up
3 Garlic cloves
Apple Cider Vinegar
1/2 cup Brown sugar
1/4 cup Molasses
Place the peppers, tomatoes and garlic cloves in the jar. You want to slice the habaneros open so the vinegar mixes with the insides of the pepper and gets the heat from the habaneros. Fill the jar with apple cider vinegar, seal and let sit in the refrigerator for anywhere from 7 days to a month, turning the jar once a day. The idea is to let the ingredients get softened up by the vinegar.

When you are ready to make your sauce empty the jar through a strainer so all of the vinegar goes into a sauce pan and all of the peppers, tomatoes and garlic stay in the strainer. Empty the contents of the strainer into a blender.

Heat the vinegar until it is just starting to boil, Once it starts to boil turn off the heat, add the sugar and stir until it dissolves. Pour the liquid into the blender. Add the molasses. Turn the blender on to its highest speed and blend everything until it is liquified. Pour into a jar, let cool and enjoy your hot sauce.

Everything in this recipe is adjustable to taste. If you want the sauce to be milder use fewer peppers and more of everything else. If you want it to be sweeter add more sugar. If you like the molasses taste add more. Keep fiddling with the ingredients and ratios until you find the one that is perfect for your taste.

You can also split it into batches. Let's say you have 20 peppers. Instead of putting all 20 in one jar make up 2 smaller jars with 10 peppers in each jar. Process one jar into a batch of hot sauce and let the other jar sit until you are almost out of hot sauce. Then you have a jar of softened ingredients all ready for your next batch of fresh Habanero sauce. Enjoy.

5 posted on 08/24/2012 1:37:50 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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