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1st Hot sauce attempt: Mango hot sauce --> Adobo style

After reading several thread here and recipes on the internet, I decided to try my first shot on hot sauce making. This is a variation of Vincent's Mango Habanero sauce recipe. Since Mango is in season right now here, I used his recipe as a basis. I unconsciously used the base ingredients(ingredients on bold font) of Filipino Adobo so I decided to call this Adobo style.

well here's my components:
10 hot chinense peppers, deseeded and chopped (7 where donated by franzb69)
12 pcs calamansi, juiced
3 pcs ripe mango (approx 600g), peeled and diced
3 pcs medium carrots shredded
1 medium white onion, chopped
6 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 1/2 cup red cane vinegar
cracked black pepper
6 Tbsp white sugar
2 pcs bay laurel leaves
1 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 Tbsp light soy sauce (instead of using salt and to add colour)
Some water to adjust tartness

process flow:

- sautéed onion and garlic in sauce pan until onion is translucent
- put in carrots, mango and vinegar and soy, simmer until carrots and mango are soft enough
- add calamansi juice, chilis, bay laurel, black pepper and sugar
- adjust tartness according to taste by adding some water
- remove bay leaf
- I used a hand held blender to puree the sauce
- return bay leaf and simmer fo another 5 mins

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estimated output is approx 1500ml divided into 4 containers.

verdict: sweet and tangy, heat level was more tolerable compared to the raw heat of the fresh peppers.
 
What is calamansi? Ingrediants look like somethings i love to use in sauces!

just liked srin said, a type of lime. widely available here compared to lemons.

Except for the oil, whats that doing there?

I dunno, should i omit it next time? i sauted the garlic and onion before adding the liquids.

You know.....


I'd be more tempted to call this a marinade or grilling sauce than a hot sauce.


Looks and sounds quite good!


Wow, looks a hell of a lot better than my first attempt! :)
Nice one.

+ 1 this would be a great marinade or simmer sauce.

Nice idea! Thanks. I'll try to marinade some chicken fillet next time. :)
 
Nice sauce. My mouth is watering looking at it and wondering how it might taste like.
Good job !

for me its a little sweet and more tangy. tried it on pizza too and i can say that its better than the regular hotsauce that pizaahut uses here. it lost a lot of heat given that I used hot pods.

I wonder what i did wrong to reduce the heat dramatically?
 
Sugar is known to reduce the heat so that could be what did it. You said that it's a little sweet, try using only half the amount of sugar next time and see if you get the heat you wanted. There are other ways to sweeten, honey, agave nectar of fruit juice to name a few and they might have less of an effect on the heat. Just a thought.
 
Sugar is known to reduce the heat so that could be what did it. You said that it's a little sweet, try using only half the amount of sugar next time and see if you get the heat you wanted. There are other ways to sweeten, honey, agave nectar of fruit juice to name a few and they might have less of an effect on the heat. Just a thought.

thanks for this info. I'll use honey next time. :)

I've noticed that simmering will reduce the heat - deseeding will too the placenta is where a lot of heat resides

I notice this too. I made several chili garlic paste before and the end product is not as hot as I expected it compared to the raw pods that I used. I just simmered the pepper & garlic in oil over low fire for less than 5 mins.
 
I wonder what i did wrong to reduce the heat dramatically?

It's not uncommon for the "heat" to return, or build, over time as the sauce ages. Wait a month and then give it a taste. Might surprise ya.

Great color to your sauce by the way. :clap:
 
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