Habanero Hot Sauce
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.
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