Ghost chili pepper hot sauce recipe

Make your own ghost pepper hot sauce at home with this recipe, which includes plenty of chopped ghost peppers, tomatoes, vinegar and salt. Big flavor, big spice!

I have to admit that I have been looking forward to giving these damn hot Ghost peppers a good blitz and discover what the results of 3 months of fermenting them tastes like. I started up the ferment mid December, after picking up these hotties at westlandpeppers. Every time I open the fridge I see them tentatively glistening at me. The time felt right to finish this bright red, fiery hot sauce. And hot it is! Type of fermentation: lacto-fermentation Level: beginners Tools: small glass jar, small weight, gloves.

Ghost chili pepper hot sauce recipe

A friend recently suggested I watch the Gordon Ramsey episode of Hot Ones on YouTube, and I laughed as the celebrated chef worked his way through a series of hot wings doused in hot sauce, getting hotter and hotter along the way. Ramsey is known for his profanity and there was plenty of that flying as he coughed, sweat, spit and generally berated the quality of the chicken wings, aka wings of death. It reminded me of the time I grew ghost peppers in my garden and had so many of them, I turned them into a hot sauce that I still put that on everything. This recipe takes a while from start to finish because you need to dry the ghost peppers which takes about a month. For a faster version of homemade hot sauce, check out my version of tabasco sauce. Ghost peppers are also called Bhut Jolokias and can top out at over 1 Million Scoville Heat Units, which is about times hotter than an average jalapeno pepper. Ghost peppers originated in India where the army has transformed peppers into military-grade smoke bombs. Local residents even smear the peppers on fences and walls to keep wild elephants out. What I love about these peppers is that although they are intense in heat, they are also quite fruity. The heat tends to take a little while to hit your tongue, which can be deceiving. So give it about 30 seconds, and I promise you'll feel it! This sauce packs some heat, but the roasted garlic adds sweetness and helps mellow out the sauce a bit. Other recipes call for red peppers, mango and carrots to balance the spice of the chiles, so feel free to experiment to see what flavors you like and what spice level you can tolerate. You can also tone done the spice by using a slightly milder super hot variety of pepper such as Habanero or Scotch Bonnet.

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How do you make ghost pepper sauce? But these basic steps should give you enough information to try out your own ghost pepper hot sauce recipe at home. While there are tons of blends and recipes out there, ghost pepper sauce starts with -- you guessed it! The type of ghost pepper is up to you. While some people prefer the classic red, others like the yellow or even the chocolate pepper variety. Some people use Carolina Reapers, jalapenos, serranos, bell peppers, or whatever else suits your taste buds.

Is your taste for heat insatiable? Love big flavors? Then this homemade ghost pepper hot sauce is for you! Best of all it can be prepared in 10 minutes. Ghost Pepper sauce is one of the most coveted sauces around with a fiery flavor that can satisfy even the most stringent chili pepper aficionado. The Ghost Pepper, also known as Bhut Jolokia, is a hybrid chili pepper from the Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens species, originating in Northeast India. It was once recognized as the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness World Records.

Ghost chili pepper hot sauce recipe

This page may contain affiliate links. So, I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. Want to add some oomph to your day? Then make some of this ghost pepper sauce and have it ready to enjoy at breakfast, lunch and dinner! This homemade hot sauce is made with bhut jolokia, also known as ghost peppers, some of the hottest peppers in the world!

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Question on the tomatoes. Let me know how it turns out! Thank you Mike, Sincerely, Nancy. Haha, I love it! It is highly unlikely anyone could consume that amount, as their body would react before reaching such a limit. Ghost peppers offer a an intense sweet pepper flavor that is quite fruity. I went into a sneezing and coughing frenzy on and off for 20 minutes. Curious how it will turn out for you. I have a good crop of cayenne peppers but they have not gone red because of our short growing season at 53 degrees north in England. Yeah, this will warm the winter bones. Total Time: 45 minutes minutes. Can still use the hot sauce if I put it in the fridge or is it not safe for consumption?

This roasted ghost pepper sauce recipe roasts several ghost peppers with carrots and garlic to make a very spicy yet also sweet sauce that can be used to enhance many dishes.

Let me know how it comes out for you! This recipe takes a while from start to finish because you need to dry the ghost peppers which takes about a month. It's fun to experiment and play with new flavors. My ghost plants weren't producing 1 per plant this summer until I used this. Brianna, thanks! Is there some tomato like vegetable I can use to thicken things up without changing the colour of the sauce too much? Typically throw in some chopped garlic and a cup of water to lessen the thickness. I would go by weight and use about ounces of peppers, though you can easily include more for this recipe. Did You Enjoy This Recipe? The burning generally rises in intensity over the next minutes, then subsides after minutes. I used twice as many peppers, but did not double the amount of water.