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Everyone has their own preference for hot sauce, so making your own at home will allow you to control the flavor and spiciness.
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“Home Canning and Preserving” by Janet Cooper contains recipes and preserving how-to explanations for beginning and experienced canners.
Cover courtesy of Skyhorse Publishing
approximately 1 cup
SERVINGS
Ingredients
- 8 oz. can tomato sauce
- 3 habanero peppers, roughly chopped 1 Serrano pepper, chopped
- small yellow onion, chopped 1 or 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- tablespoon cider vinegar 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon leaf thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/4 teaspoon leaf cilantro
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper corns, rounded, or 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Directions
- Combine all ingredients in a blender or food processor. Process until pureed and transfer to a small lidded saucepan. Put over low heat. A diffuser is best for this sauce. Simmer at a low bubble for 30 minutes, keeping the lid ajar. This sauce will spit if a lid is not used, but you want steam to escape.
- When the sauce is thick enough for your use, cool and transfer to a glass jar for refrigerator storage. It may also be sealed in sterile jars or frozen for future use.
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Excerpt published from Home Canning and Preserving: Putting Up Small-Batch Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Chutneys, Relishes, and More by Janet Cooper with permission from Skyhorse Publishing.
Home Canning and Preserving (Skyhorse, 2014), by Janet Cooper, is a recipe book and how-to for preserving fruits, veggies, and meat at home. Cooper has been canning and preserving since a young age, learning many methods and recipes from her mother who has a Pennsylvania Dutch background. This excerpt is a recipe for hot sauce.
Commercially made hot sauces are best left to the companies that have made them for years but it is possible to make a very good sauce of your own at home. The amount of heat you prefer in your sauce is easily controlled and the use of your sauce is open to your imagination.
