Description
Not only is making your own hot sauce (also known as rooster sauce) at home possible, it’s really fun and there’s hardly any work involved. Serve it on just about anything.
Ingredients
- 1 pound red jalapeno peppers, stems cut off
- ½ pound red serrano peppers, stems cut off
- 4 cloves garlic, peeled
- 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- ⅓ cup water
- ½ cup distilled white vinegar
Instructions
- Place jalapeño and serrano peppers into a blender with water
- garlic
- brown sugar
- and salt. Pulse several times
- them blend until smooth.
- Transfer puree into a large glass jar or pitcher. Cover container with plastic wrap and place into a cool dark location for 3 to 5 days
- stirring and scraping down the sides once a day. The mixture will begin to bubble and ferment. Rewrap after every stirring and return to a cool
- dark place until the mixture is bubbly.
- Pour fermented mixture back into the blender; add vinegar and blend until smooth. Strain mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into a saucepan
- pushing as much of the pulp as possible through the strainer into the sauce. Discard remaining pulp
- seeds
- and skin left in the strainer.
- Transfer sauce into a small saucepan; bring to a boil over medium heat
- stirring often
- until reduced to your desired thickness
- about 5 to 10 minutes.
- Let sauce cool to room temperature. The sauce will thicken a little when cooled. Transfer sauce to jars or bottles and store in the refrigerator.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 5 mins
Total Time: 3 days
Servings: 24