Easy Orange Hab Sauce

Malarky · Apr 27, 2016

Hi All. It's going to be a long while before my pepper harvest. I'm a complete sauce noob and i'd like to cut my teeth on an easy recipe for the fridge(nonferment).

unfortunately all i have access to at the local store is OrangeHab, fresno, green jal, and maybe some serranos. I've done some googling and found some recipes with orange hab, carrots, onions and garlic(sounds good, yum).But I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone with more experience has a standby recipe before i run off and try some foodie blogger's recipe of the day.

Thank you!

juanitos · Apr 27, 2016

you can use habs interchangably in recipes, flavor will be a bit different but thats fine for trying out sauces. can always tweak them a bit.

there are plenty habanero recipes if you do a search..
i like the mango / pineapple sauce, is fun to have a fruity sauce.

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/31780-orange-habanero-and-mango-sauce/?hl=%2Borange+%2Bhabanero

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/50693-tims-habanero-sriracha-style-hot-sauce/?hl=+orange%20+habanero

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/21371-caribbean-red-sauce/page-2?hl=%2Borange+%2Bhab#entry1212274

Vicious Vex · Apr 27, 2016

Something you can do if you want to have a more complex flavor is experimenting with fermenting the ingredients. It is not as complex as it sounds when you first dive in. You just have to pay attention to the weights of your ingredients.

Juanitos is extremely knowledgeable and I would trust his thoughts. Habaneros, like ghost peppers (Bhuts), are extremely versatile.

hogleg · Apr 27, 2016

click hot sauces on the left. There is a bunch of hab sauces

http://www.pepperfool.com/recipe_home.html

KingChile · Apr 27, 2016

I'd do green sauce

Habaneros
Serranos
Tomatillos
Cilantro
Lime Juice
Salt
Carrots
Onion
I'd also throw in a lil Avocado too!

Malarky · Apr 28, 2016

Vicious Vex said:
Something you can do if you want to have a more complex flavor is experimenting with fermenting the ingredients. It is not as complex as it sounds when you first dive in. You just have to pay attention to the weights of your ingredients.

Juanitos is extremely knowledgeable and I would trust his thoughts. Habaneros, like ghost peppers (Bhuts), are extremely versatile.

So i read about 7 or 8 of the pages in Fermenting 101 and I'd like to try it...
but i'm hung up on the brine. I chop up all my peppers, carrots, garlic etc., pack the jar, pour yogurt whey over it, but what about the brine. I seem to be getting confused as people talk about %weights? do i need to weigh my ingredients and then use X salt as a percentage of that weight? or is there just a straight up use X salt in Y amount of water to get a Z%brine? is the weight thing related to the weight of ingredients or just a %salt brine?

hope that makes sense? thanks

edit: Thanks for the links everyone!

salsalady · Apr 28, 2016

For a first sauce, using store habs, I'd suggest s a simple cooked sauce, but for fun you could also take the exact same ingredients and do a ferment.

My one comment is that most new sauce makers use waaaaayyyy too much hot peppers for the normal consumer. If you want the sauce for yourself and you consider yourself a pretty serious chilehead, use up to 50% by volume of habaneros. For the rest of your friends and family, they will most likely be in the 4-5 habaneros per gallon range (or even less than that).

I like to use colored bell peppers (whatever color the chiles are) as a good filler, also apple, pear, any other fruit especially tropical fruits with habs, tomatillo, or other non-spicy peppers that will carry the chile flavor without adding heat.

onion, garlic, ginger, other spices and herbs....whatever strikes your fancy.

Good Luck and Have Fun!

Post pics~ we luv pics!

Malarky · Apr 29, 2016

salsalady said:
For a first sauce, using store habs, I'd suggest s a simple cooked sauce, but for fun you could also take the exact same ingredients and do a ferment.

^exactly what I wanted to do. I'm definitely going to be toning down the hot hot peppers as I have no idea what I can handle.
I'd love to post pics but I don't have a smartphone and my home PC has taken a dump and I've had no time to fix it yet :-(

Thanks for the advice SL