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As I become a teenager, I am starting to like spicy food.  At several restaurants, I have amazed people by eating habanero chicken wings (when I was 12).  My dad made a hot sauce using Carolina reapers, the hottest pepper in the world.  I asked him to help me develop this Habanero Hot Sauce recipe.

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Habanero peppers are nice because they are both hot and sweet.  This sauce we made has some honey and molasses as well.  People like it because it is both hot and sweet.

We have a machine that we use to dry the habanero peppers.  This takes about a day.  When you chop the peppers, you need to be very careful and use gloves and make sure you wash your hands.

Once the peppers are dried and seeded it is easy.  You just roast the other vegetables in the oven, blend everything and cook it on the stove.  Once it cooks you and put everything in the blender again.  We use a Nutri Ninja.  If there is a lot of sauce you may need to blend it in two batches.

Once the sauce is cool we put it in a 2-liter soda bottle.  Of course, we drank the soda first and washed out the bottle.

This sauce is not too hot and actually pretty sweet.  You should try it out. For a hotter sauce check out our Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce.

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Habanero Hot Sauce

Grady

My dad made a hot sauce using Carolina reapers, the hottest pepper in the world. I asked him to help me develop this Habanero Hot sauce recipe.  It is not as hot and slightly sweet. 

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 50 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr

Cuisine Mexican

Ingredients

  

• 3 red/orange/yellow peppers
• 2 carrots
• 3 dried or fresh California/Anaheim peppers
• 5 Habanero peppers seeded
• 24 oz canned or fresh tomatoes fresh is better Rotel is good
• 4 cloves garlic chopped
• 1 onion chopped
• 2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
• 3 tbsp honey
• 3 tbsp molasses
• 3 tbsp brown sugar

Instructions

 

• Heat oven to 425
• Cut carrots into small rounds, arrange on cookie sheet with red peppers (add Anaheim peppers if not dried)
• Roast until starting to black, about 30 minutes
• De-seed and slice dried peppers with extreme caution
• Add peppers/carrots to food processor and blend
• Add tomatoes and blend again
• Put into large cooking pot, add roughly chopped onions, garlic, salt, pepper, vinegar, apple juice and sweeteners.
• Stir to blend, bring to boil, reduce to simmer and cook for 20+ minutes.
• Cool, mix in blender and bottle

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We made this with our Nutri Ninja.  See our review

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