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Habanero Hot Sauce and Mash Recipe

Hot Sauce Mash

This recipe is adapted from Modernist Cuisine at Home’s Buffalo Hot Sauce recipe. Yields 250 grams (~9 fl oz).

Habenero Hot Sauce and Mash

Ingredients:

200 g canola oil

80 g white onion thinly sliced

2 egg yolks (~50g)

35 g vinegar

15 g lemon juice

2 habanero peppers sliced

15 g paprika powder

15 g red cayenne pepper powder

5 cloves garlic thinly sliced

Kosher salt to taste

Think of this recipe as three components that can be modified. First we’ll be creating a flavored oil with our pungent ingredients. Then we add an emulsifying agent, egg yolks, and finish off with some acids and salt.

  1. Combine oil, onion, garlic, paprika, cayenne, and habanero into a pan and heat to a slow simmer for 30 minutes. You don’t want to burn the ingredients — you can and it taste interesting — but extract the flavors.
  2. Strain through a fine mesh strainer into a small bowl. Push down to get as much oil out and reserve the mash — it goes great with tacos and potatoes like chipotle peppers in adobo.
  3. In another bowl place your egg yolks and blend in the flavored oil you extracted in step 2.
  4. Mix in lemon juice and vinegar
  5. Salt to taste

I like to store this sauce in a squeeze bottle like this and serve chilled with tacos, meats, and potatoes. It even goes good on popcorn.

To adapt this recipe you can think of it as 3 separate components as I mentioned earlier. Hot sauces like Franks Red Hot use water and tomatoes for the base and vinegar for the acid. Cholula uses arbol and pequin peppers but a similar base to Franks — recipe here. So feel free to try different bases, different levels of heat, and different acids to get that perfect flavor your after. I love white vinegar in mine.

 

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