Making hot sauce but unfortunately it turned up more like a taco sauce, for comparison a quote from article @sporked.com ("It’s not as aggressively spicy as straight-up hot sauce so you can use it to moisten a taco rather than just add a few sprinkles to bring heat.") I want to make the hot sauce but i accidentally made the taco sauce soo my question is; How to make sauce more aggressive as to make hot sauce. my recipe as thus far is as follows. Hanco/pablano peppers/chipotle sauce, garlic, onion, brown sugar, spicy Chinese mustard, vinegar, water, San Marzano tomates, and last but not least 4 of the legendary Carolina Reapers, gotta admit im surprised its not technically hot enough am making 18oz of sauce geez should i add more carolina peppers or am i putting to mutch vinagar or something is excellent taco sauce but am aiming to make hot sauce lalala weee!
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in-the-kitchen How to make sauce more aggressive?
- Thread starter FroggyMamma
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Try more peppers and leave out the canned tomatoes. Not sure what the mustard is there for but up to you. Also try less of the brown sugar.
Check out tomato paste in the tube. It's double concentrated so already cooked down (a LOT) and you won't end up with a pasta-like sauce like with a can of San Marzano. Try to find the tube where the only ingredient is tomatoes. It's great stuff and you just need a little!
Check out tomato paste in the tube. It's double concentrated so already cooked down (a LOT) and you won't end up with a pasta-like sauce like with a can of San Marzano. Try to find the tube where the only ingredient is tomatoes. It's great stuff and you just need a little!
By the way your recipe reads like a BBQ sauce. Try some of the adjustments I mentioned, perhaps no brown sugar at all, no mustard, and tomato paste not tomatoes. More peppers. Fresh lemon or lime juice.
the tomates oh yeah thats the reason i grew them myself and are so fresh super juicy oh lol i made excellent taco sauce however, alright paste plus more peppers and probs boil bit longer got it btw the mustard is for asian twng ha idk but is spicy so added it alright i might even just give up and eat this as taco sauce now ultimately i will make this into hot sauce somehow as has nice consistency and flavor aha blahhh ha
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Try this. Put it all in a blender with some extra peppers for heat (2 reapers if possible, or 5 habaneros), fresh garlic, and fresh lemon juice. Cook it down until thick, then add vinegar to thin it out which will also add tang. Salt to taste. This should fix it up.
Hard to tell without knowing the proportions your using for each ingredient but sounds like you need more hot peppers in the mix. I'd try replacing pablanos with something hotter like serranos if you don't want to stray too far from the original recipe.
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If the taste and consistency are fine what powders do you have around? Reaper? Hab?
I like Grassy's comment to sub another hotter chile for the poblano. Keeps the flavor profile while kicking up the heat.
Brown sugar and tomatoes will tone down the heat from the sugars.
Reduce the sugars will increase the heat. Add a bit more hotter peppers of the same color as your sauce...green, red, brown like the chipotle sauce....
Maybe get some chipotle pepper powder instead of using tinned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce which have a ton of subingredients.
Brown sugar and tomatoes will tone down the heat from the sugars.
Reduce the sugars will increase the heat. Add a bit more hotter peppers of the same color as your sauce...green, red, brown like the chipotle sauce....
Maybe get some chipotle pepper powder instead of using tinned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce which have a ton of subingredients.
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The sauce is already made how is she supposed to take it out?
I put like five more carolinas in there and my mouth is numb and am drooling is spicy enough now except is yet bit liquidity im drownding in spice carolinas made like 100 reapers on first batch and the second wave is finishing up with Hallows eves and alot of other super hots I dont know if im going to survive hehehe omg gahhhhhh
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You did what?? LOL! Are you trying to make a batch of paint remover?
for God's sake don't add any salt!!!!
I don't know wth is going on here but it sounds dangerous! some kind of doomsday machine!
Froggymamma, I hope you are on our side when WW3 kicks off!
for God's sake don't add any salt!!!!
I don't know wth is going on here but it sounds dangerous! some kind of doomsday machine!
Froggymamma, I hope you are on our side when WW3 kicks off!
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