Homemade Hot Sauce
From mystic_river1 16 years ago
- 120 minutes to make
- Serves 20
This is from The Eating Well test kitchen. This homemade hot sauce makes good use of the bountiful tomatoes, onions and peppers in your garden or farmers’ market. Adjust the heat to your preference: in their tests, two habaneros yielded a pleasantly spicy sauce without excessive heat—take it up a notch for spicy-food fans by adding extra hot peppers. Read more See less
Ingredients
- COOL TIME included in cook time (2 2/3 c.) shopping list
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- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil shopping list
- 1 cup diced onion shopping list
- 2 medium chile peppers, such as poblano, New Mexico or Anaheim, diced shopping list
- 2-4 habanero peppers or other small hot chile peppers, stemmed, halved and seeded (see Tip) shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- 1 pound tomatoes, diced (about 3 cups) shopping list
- 1 cup distilled white vinegar shopping list
- 2 teaspoons salt shopping list
- 1-3 teaspoons sugar shopping list
- TIP: Always wear gloves when cleaning hot peppers...protect your eye and throw the gloves out. Wash hands thoroughly. shopping list
How to make it
- Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion, chile peppers, habaneros to taste and garlic and cook, stirring, until the onion is soft and beginning to brown, 3 to 4 minutes.
- Reduce heat to medium. Add tomatoes, vinegar, salt and sugar to taste. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes begin to break down, about 5 minutes.
- Carefully transfer the tomato mixture to a food processor or blender. Puree until smooth. (Use caution when pureeing hot ingredients.) Set a fine-mesh sieve over a medium bowl; pour the pureed mixture through the sieve, pushing on the solids with a wooden spoon to extract all the liquid. (Discard solids.) Let the sauce cool to room temperature, about 1 1/2 hours.
The Rating
Reviewed by 13 people-
I love it! I love making homemade sauces and those with heat make me happy. Thanks, hon! ^5 :)
lunasea
in Orlando loved it
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Btw, where is the tip? We have small hot chile peppers here called labuyo- really hot and I'm scared to handle them with bare hands.
jrt_mom
in Metro Manila loved it
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I should stop buying and make my own. I've always wondered how to do this. Thank you!!!
jrt_mom
in Metro Manila loved it
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