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Ok, here's a weird one.

smariotti

smariotti

I was lucky enough to get my hands on two dozen fresh peppers of various awesome super hot varieties and after extracting seeds from one of each, I threw them all in a sauce together to see what I'd end up with.

I used onion and garlic and fresh red jalapenos from my garden as the "base". I'm calling this one "Duckies and Bunnies."

Duckies and Bunnies Hot Sauce

1 tbs canola oil
1/2 Yellow Onion
6 cloves of garlic
1 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
5 ripe red jalapenos
1 fresh Bhut Jolokia
1 fresh Trinidad Scorpion
1 fresh 7 Pot "Jonah"
1 fresh Yellow 7 Pot/Mystery Chinense
1 fresh Fatalii
1 fresh Datil
1 fresh Goat Pepper
2 tbs Kecap Manis
1 tbs Fish Sauce
1/4 tsp salt

saute the garlic and onions in the hot oil until translucent, add the vinegar and all peppers and cook over low heat until soft (20 minutes.) Add kecap manis and fish sauce and cook for a few minutes longer. Into the food process and blend it until smooth. Taste, add salt if necessary, blend until creamy. Into bottles. Bottles into boiling water. Into the fridge.

Here's the fresh stuff:

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Here's the end result. The yellowish-red of the peppers got a little brown thanks to the kecap manis.

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A hot sauce, not blisteringly crazy hot but definitely up there. a teaspoon of it givees a great burn that's not too squirmy, at least for me. I'd have gone with less vinegar, less onion and less jalapeno if I'd wanted pure heat.

I find the Trinidad Scorpions and 7 Pots a little bitter on the back end, and the sauce has a bitter finish. I think it'll balance out well with sweet-hot food and for Mongolian Chicken tomorrow afternoon at work it'll be just about right.
 
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I never found much use for fish sauce. I bought the Cock brand and it smelled like dead dish, not fish. I know you use one drop at a time but this stuff was pretty rank.
 
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The thing about fish sauce is that it smells TERRIBLE. Like grandpa's stinky feet. But it tastes WONDERFUL and adds such awesome salty earthy flavor.

I've grown to love it in hot sauce. It balances out the fruity/heady quality of the hot peppers with a nice substantial earthy goodness.
 
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I wasn't going to say what is really smelled like but if you haven't had the chance please get a bottle and take a whiff :lol:
 
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Heh, well, it's fermented fish..it's not gonna smell great.

Kinda like the deal with fermented black bean paste.

I prefer Mae Krua Oyster Sauce usually though unless I want a really big flavor.
 
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scarpetti said:
Uh Beavis, you just said Cock! Huh, huh huh.... huh, huh, huh.....
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Oh yeah! hehehehe...hmhm...hehehehehehe..

Nice recipe smariotti - fish sauce rules! I always keep a bottle around - you can't make Thai curries without it. It does kinda stink though:)
 
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Looks great smariotti! I noticed you have goat pepper listed.
Is that the real Bahamian goat pepper you used?

BTW Fish sauce is excellent and is used in just about every thai dish.
One of my favourite foods!
 
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Yeah, nice job here! I wouldn't have thought to use fish sauce, but it sounds like a cool idea. And everyone is right. It smells terrible, but when you cook with it, it becomes wonderfully aromatic and lends a great taste. Well, if you make this again, you could easily round out the bitterness with some pineapple and mango if that is something that sounds good to you.
 
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That is most definitely not a brain strain patrick. I guessing he didn't even grow these peppers and got them in a trade from Katrina or her brother. The name brain strain is a name I made up in the 7 pod skin porn thread last year to follow my particular red strain. Katrina uses the name thinking she is cool but confuses everyone else. That pod doesn't even look like a 7, more like a scorpion. Nice sauce smariotti but maybe you and whoever you got the pods from should properly identify your peppers. Don't want a bunch of mislabeled seed floating around and ruin this hobby for everone under you. There is a perfectly fine Yellow 7 Pot from Neil so please don't pollute the seed stock.:banghead:
 
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Pepper Ridge Farm said:
That is most definitely not a brain strain patrick. I guessing he didn't even grow these peppers and got them in a trade from Katrina or her brother. The name brain strain is a name I made up in the 7 pod skin porn thread last year to follow my particular red strain. Katrina uses the name thinking she is cool but confuses everyone else. That pod doesn't even look like a 7, more like a scorpion. Nice sauce smariotti but maybe you and whoever you got the pods from should properly identify your peppers. Don't want a bunch of mislabeled seed floating around and ruin this hobby for everone under you. There is a perfectly fine Yellow 7 Pot from Neil so please don't pollute the seed stock.:banghead:
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Yeah, I was confused. I don't have "Brain Strain" in there at all, and it's certainly not yellow. I did have a yellow mystery pepper in with the batch I got from Katrina's bro, but I mistook it for something it wasn't.

I'll edit the post to clear up the confusion in case anyone finds my recipe later.
 
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