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Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce

Making a useable hot sauce from the world's hottest pepper circa 2017
Course Side Dish

Ingredients
  

  • 3 red/orange/yellow peppers
  • 2 carrots
  • 3 dried or fresh California/Anaheim peppers
  • 2-4 dried Carolina Reapers extreme caution!
  • 24 oz canned or fresh tomatoes fresh is better, Rotel is good
  • 4 cloves garlic chopped
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 1 cup vinegar
  • 1/2 cup apple juice
  • 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 reapers and 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, bring to boil, reduce to simmer and cook for 20+ minutes.  Do a final blend using immersion blender or food processor.
  • Cool and bottle
Keyword Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce