Berry Hot Sauce?

[SouthernYooper]

ALright ladies and gents.....

I was thinking today about an idea for some sauce ingredients when I get some pods this fall(if anyway). I don't know if this has been done before but what about doing a triple berry bhut jolokia sauce? Maybe use like Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries and Bhuts. Would this be good you think? Also would vinegar totally screw it up? Maybe a different vinegar would be best? Or maybe a blueberry and bhut sauce........ Bhutberry......lol. Just spitballin here.....

 

[lazienfat]

perhaps I should find an actual recipe to base it off of lol.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Make sure you peel the pears lol, core them, cut up and slow cook in a liquid and spices (choose flavors you like for the sauce) until super soft. This will get rid of the graininess. Then use the pears and liquid (pureed) as the base for your sauce.

Peppers (Scotch Bonnet?)
Will it be sweet? (brown sugar)
Will it be savory? (onions, garlic)
Vinegar
Lemon juice to counter the pears
Salt
A dash of tamarind flavor would go well here (Worcestershire sauce)



Now back to the OP's berry sauce topic.

 

[salsalady]

perhaps I should find an actual recipe to base it off of lol.

Naw, just wing it! besides, it's unlikely you'll find an actual recipe using pears, berries, etc. or a recipe using hotties.

just mix, taste, cook, taste, mix, taste, taste....tweak, taste, ...you get the idea...

 

[lazienfat]

Awesome thanks THP. I'll give that a shot this week. I usually do wing it. Sorry back to berries, Huckle berries are pretty big around here that might be okay. I think you should try a raspberry hot sauce!

 

[lazienfat]

Well I gave a berry sauce a test run, however made the amateur mistake of putting to much chocolate in it.
I wanted to keep it pretty simple:
raspberries
red jalapenos
habaneros
juice from a grape fruit
few dashes of salt
2 small spoonful's of brown sugar
chocolate, the good kind 70% cocoa
white wine vinegar

When cooking the sauce on the stove it went from a vibrant red raspberry color to a chocolate color. I put WAY to much chocolate on it, 5 little chunks. Should have stuck with just 1-2 to give it a hunt of flavor. The consistency turned out nice. It tasted okay on a popper & terrible on a chip. Maybe I'll try a dab on some vanilla ice cream and see how it is. Oh well I'm sure with a little experimentation we can figure out a good berry sauce. It definitely would taste different with some super hots though.

 

[salsalady]

good job for your first shot! Keep notes for the next time.

When I'm working on a recipe, I'll start out with 1 tsp of whatever and keep adding until it tastes right. Sometimes the recipe will look like 1+1+2+2+1+2...

 

[lazienfat]

Thanks Salsalady,I am definitely taking your advise for next time had I started with one piece of choc and worked my way up it would have turned out much better.

 

[Timmmy newbie]

give it 2 weeks min before the final taste test all sauces seem to bonds and mature over a few weeks

 

[scarpetti]

I threw in a bunch of dried cranberries in one of my sauces towards the end of the boiling process. I can't even taste them. But they were dried. Maybe if I used fresh I'd taste them.