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Asian-Style Hot Pepper Sauce
This is a thin, drizzling hot sauce for home canning, excellent on rice, noodle and stir-fried dishes. It’s also good on pizza or wings!
Course
Condiments
Cuisine
Asian
Keyword
Peppers
Prep Time
20
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
1
hour
hour
Total Time
1
hour
hour
20
minutes
minutes
Servings
4
125 ml (½ cup / 4 oz) jars
Calories
92
kcal
Ingredients
150
g
Thai bird's-eye peppers
(1 ¾ cups / 5 oz)
225
g
red pepper
(Sweet, such as bell. 1 ½ cups / 8 oz / 1 ½ large peppers)
2
tablespoons
salt
(OR non-bitter, non-clouding salt sub)
250
ml
water
(1 cup / 8 oz)
1
tablespoon
mustard seed
1 ½
teaspoons
coriander seed
½
teaspoon
cumin seed
1
teaspoon
mace blades
(crumbled. 1 g)
400
ml
white vinegar
(5% or higher. 1 ¾ cups / 14 oz)
2
tablespoons
fish sauce
(optional)
1
teaspoon
sugar
(white. OR few drops of liquid stevia)
2
tablespoons
flour
2
tablespoons
water
Metric
-
US Customary
Instructions
Wash and stem the Thai peppers. Add to food processor.
Wash, stem, and seed the bell peppers. Cut in large chunks. Add to food processor.
Add the salt to the food processor.
Whiz the peppers in food processor until they are reduced to a paste.
Stir in the water.
Set aside.
In a medium-sized sauce pan, put the dry spices: the mustard, coriander and cumin seeds, along with the mace blade.
Toast for about 3 to 4 minutes, until it becomes fragrant or seeds start to pop.
Add the pepper mixture, the vinegar, the fish sauce, and the sugar.
Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cover.
Let simmer for 40 minutes.
After 40 minutes, strain through a fine sieve.
Discard solids.
Put the pepper liquid back into the pot.
Mix the flour and water together in a small bowl to make a paste.
Whisk the flour paste into the pot.
Bring the pot mixture to a boil, and boil for 2 minutes, whisking constantly.
Remove from heat, strain again.
Ladle hot sauce into heated 125 ml (4 oz) jars.
Leave 2 cm (½ inch) headspace.
Debubble, adjust headspace.
Wipe jar rims.
Put lids on.
Process in a water bath or steam canner.
Process jars for 10 minutes; increase time as needed for your altitude.
Nutrition
Serving:
2
g
|
Calories:
92
kcal
|
Carbohydrates:
23
g
|
Protein:
1
g
|
Sodium:
144
mg
|
Sugar:
20
g