Hot Pepper Harvest & Sauce
Farm harvest of Serrano and Thai Chili this year
Harvesting hot peppers and making hot sauce all day … This is a fun and spicy project that really gets your spirits up! Yowza!!!
Serrano separated into red and green piles.
I like my hot sauce to only have three ingredients: hot peppers, vinegar, salt.
Purée the raw hot peppers, add some vinegar and salt. Taste. It should taste quite salty and a bit vinegary, these preserve the hot sauce because it's going in the fridge, you are not canning the jars in a boiling water process for preservation.
Red, ripe Serrano peppers, white vinegar, salt. Purée until smooth. Put into jars, keep in refrigerator. Keeps for years, although it's best eaten within a year or so.
I use Serrano for hot sauce.
I freeze little baggies of raw Thai Chili for use in Thai food or Vietnamese food later on.
I will throw all my Jalapeno and Hungarian Hot Wax peppers on the smoker to make a super hot, smoky Chipotle-type sauce when I have time. I like to let them ripen to a deep red color, it makes for a sweet smoky flavor we love.
After they come off the smoker, I purée with salt and pack into jars for the freezer.
I'm thinking about smoking the green Serrano this year too, I'm curious how that flavor will turn out. Always learning about new things to do with my garden harvest.
Any other ideas out there that I'm missing out on when it comes to hot peppers?
Hot stuff!
