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New to the board - first sauce of the year - Moruga Mama Lava

I just found this board - what an excellent resource for us chili heads.
 
I've been growing pods for a few years after my brother-in-law said I couldn't make something that was too hot for him.
 
This is the year's first sauce.  I keep them simple and scorching.  The vast majority of the peppers in this stuff are moruga scorpions.  I threw in a few Moruga Yellows, some douglahs and a fatali or two because they were all ripe at the same time.
 
Ingredients:
1.  Peppers
2.  Vingear
3.  Salt
4.  Garlic
 
Method:
1.  Cut peppers in half
2.  Bring vinegar, salt, and garlic to a boil
3.  Add peppers and boil in vinegar for 15 min
4.  Transfer mixture to food processor and process for a good 5 minutes.
5.  Return mixture to heat and bring to a boil.
6.  Bottle
 
It is damn hot - A drop or two will take most people out.
 
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THE LABEL:
 
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I am going to use your recipe for my sauce. Thank You.
 
Welcome to THP.                                                    From St. Aug.
 
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Made another batch this morning.  Here it is.
 
The catch of the day ...
 
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I had some vinegar left over from the last batch so I saved it.  This was the excess vinegar that was used to boil the peppers.  It was hot enough to hurt people on its own.  I reused it in this batch thinking it can only make it hotter, right?
 
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Boiling the peppers ...
 
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Through the processor ...
 
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Reheating the bottles
 
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FINISHED SAUCE:
 
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All those peppers yielded 6 1/2 bottles of sauce (5 oz bottles) - That plus the fact that I used Moruga infused vinegar may make this one the hottest I've made yet.
 
For those peppers - I used about a teaspoon of salt and about two tea spoons of garlic - as for vinegar - cover the peppers and boil them. Add the peppers to a food processor and blend them. Add as much vinegar as you want until it is as thin as you like it.
 
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