Fiery Habanero Sauce gives you all the heat you want plus a little more. True to its name, this Habanero sauce is Fiery and so delicious.
Spicy food goes hand in hand with Indian recipes. Being born in India, I am used to eating spicy food when growing up. Decades of living here in the US have changed my taste buds and I no longer tolerate spice as I used to. We still do eat moderately spicy food and I have trained my boys as well to eat spicy food.
How hot is this Hot Sauce?
This Fiery Habanero Pepper Hot Sauce gives you all the heat you want and a little more. Let me warn you that this sauce is not for faint-hearted people. When I say Fiery Hot, I mean FIERY HOT! The recipe is a no-cook recipe and all it needs is the blending of the ingredients together.
It pairs so well with Mexican Enchiladas and Burritos. My husband drizzled a little on his Mac and Cheese this afternoon and said that it was the best Mac and Cheese he has eaten.
Other Hot Sauces -
At any restaurant we go to, we ask them to make the food spicy and on top of it have a bottle of hot sauce on our table to add on. The commercial hot sauce has such a strong after-flavor to it that I dislike it. I make my own spicy chili sauce/paste for Thai and Asian recipes.
When making Italian recipes, my husband's first request would be to make this spicy Arrabbiata Sauce. I do add quite a bit of red chili flakes to any sauce I make, but that just gives it a raw spicy feeling. This Fiery Habanero Pepper Hot Sauce has a refreshing and at the same time really spicy flavor that sort of feels right for the taste buds.
I am a part of a Facebook group called the Food Blogger Recipe Swap, where we are paired with other food bloggers and get to recreate their recipes. This helps us learn new recipes from bloggers in a different part of the world and also help us make some friends.
This group has been taken over by my dear friend and fellow blogger Mireille for the past couple of months. This month I am cooking from Deborah's blog and I chose to make this really flavorful and Fiery Habanero Pepper Hot Sauce.
I pretty much stuck to her recipe and just halved the quantity. This yielded me a good 1 cup of sauce which I will be stored for quite a while. It just needs a little drizzle to jazz up any food and this one cup of Fiery Habanero Pepper Hot Sauce will go a long way.
Growing Habanero peppers -
We grew a lot of Habanero pepper when back in NY. Not realizing how spicy it would be the first year we planted about 4 plants and they yielded like crazy. We harvested a good 40 to 50 Habanero peppers every 2 weeks and it was just a shame not knowing how to use it.
I froze quite a bit of them but was not able to use them much at all because it was too hot to use in everyday cooking. My advice to any of you who grow peppers is - Do not grow habanero pepper. It is just easier to buy a couple when we are planning to cook with them.
I was in fact planning to make Habanero jelly once but backed off my plan and used Jalapeno instead to make Jalapeno Jelly. I am so happy that I did not try this jelly with Habanero. don't think my family would or even myself would have handled the heat. If you haven't tried making any kind of pepper jelly, then you must give it a try. This jelly tastes good not just with bread but also with dosa, Idli, and Paratha.
Preparation time - 10 minutes
Cooking time - None
Difficulty level - Easy
Recipe adapted from - Simply Caribbean
Ingredients to make Fiery Habanero Pepper Hot Sauce - Makes 1 cup
- Habanero pepper - 6
- Cucumber - 1 small or half a large (chopped)
- Carrot - 1 small (chopped)
- Garlic - 4 pods
- Cilantro - A handful
- Lemon juice - 4 TBSP
- Vinegar - 1 TBSP
- Salt - to taste
Procedure to make Fiery Habanero Pepper Hot Sauce -
- I will highly suggest using gloves when working with the Habanero peppers. These are so spicy that it can burn your hand and also the spicy feeling stays on your hand for a very long time.
- Carefully remove the stem and seeds from the Habanero pepper.
- Peel the carrot and the cucumber and also the garlic.
- Place all the ingredients mentioned in a blender jar and blend until smooth.
- Drizzle it on your favorite dinner and spice it up!
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Recipe
Fiery Habanero Pepper Hot Sauce
Equipment
- Blender
Ingredients
- 6 Habanero pepper
- 1 Cucumber chopped
- 1 Carrot chopped
- 4 Garlic pods
- 4 tablespoon Cilantro A handful
- 4 tablespoon Lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon Vinegar
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- I will highly suggest using gloves when working with the Habanero peppers. These are so spicy that it can burn your hand and also the spicy feeling stays on your hand for a very long time.
- Carefully remove the stem and seeds from the Habanero pepper.
- Peel the carrot and the cucumber and also the garlic.
- Place all the ingredients mentioned in a blender jar and blend until smooth.
- Drizzle it on your favorite dinner and spice it up!
Nutrition
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April says
Every time I try a shockingly hot meal that I think can't be topped, I try something that go through the roof! I am sure this fiery habanero pepper hot sauce is the case and can't wait to try it!
Cheese Curd In Paradise says
What a wonderfully spicy recipe! I love this in my tacos or over my enchiladas as well. The heat is intense, but it has great flavor!
Jenni LeBaron says
Ooh, the fella loved it extra spicy so I bet he would go bad for this fiery habanero pepper hot sauce. I wish I had this one when I competed at a work hot sauce competition too.
Mahy Elamin says
Wow this recipe is SMOKIN!!! Soo good and spicy! Followed the recipe exactly and it turned out just perfect.
Thank you
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
Thanks a lot Mahy! I am so glad that you liked the recipe. And yes, you said it right! It is SMOKIN!!
Veena Krishnakumar says
Oh my that sounds really fiery. Beautifully captured. Vibha will love this though my eyes will start to water just seeing it 🙂
Jagruti Dhanecha says
We make a very similar sauce to eat with our Gujarati Bhajiya, instead of vinegar, I add lemon juice. This sounds pretty spicy and sensational.
Sasmita Sahoo Samanta says
I think any spicy food lover will surely gonna craze about this sauce. Loved the addition of cucumber and carrot in this. This sauce looks really hot and you captured so well 🙂
Renu says
Wow we love spicy food and this one looks really hot. Loved the addition of cucumber and carrot in this.
Nayna Kanabar says
I make a sauce very similar to this but always keep the spice level down. This sounds amazingly spicy so I guess a little would go along way.
Ashima says
I have not yet tried Habanero chilies but from your description they sound really really hot! The flavor combinations of the hot sauce sound very interesting and I'll probably try to make it with regular chilies instead! Thank you so much for sharing this one!
The Girl Next Door says
So awesome! I've never tried making habanero sauce at home, and now you tempt me to try it out. 🙂
I'm not sure if we get habanero peppers here in Bangalore, India, where I live. Would you have any idea?
Ali says
This sounds amazing - and hot! I can definitely see adding this to mac and cheese.
Lathiya says
I love spicy foods but as I read your post, I believe it should be pretty much spicy. does the cucumber added softens the spice to a level?
Chef Mireille says
this is a very Caribbean style hot sauce and we use it very sparingly which is why it is so HOT - we just use maybe 1/2 teaspoon and sprinkle it over a plate of food
I'm glad you liked it