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Scotch Bonnet Sauce Recipes?

Backyard_Pepper_Grower

Backyard_Pepper_Grower

I’ve got a lot of Scotch bonnets from my garden and I really need some sauce recipes. I’ve scoured the web and the two main types of sauce recipes based on scotch bonnets. One is cut with fruit like mangoes or pineapples (Trinidad style?) and the other is mixed with mustard (Barbados style?).
Does anyone out there have experience with making Scotch bonnet sauces?

If I were to use a fruit based recipe, could I still ferment it in a jar for a month or so before bottling, or do fruit based sauces have to be bottled immediately after cooking? My goal is to bottle the sauce (in such a way that is does not need to be refrigerated before opening); is there anything I need to take into consideration with more sugary sauces versus sauces that are derived from a pepper-vinegar-salt mash?

Thanks ahead of time for any advice!!!!
 
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Good evening.

I have been making sauce with my scotch bonnets and i use pineapple and mangos for the main bulk of the sauce. Adding also garlic, ginger and horseradish.
I cooke them up in a large pan with some distilled vinegar. Let it slowly bubble away ubtil its nice and thick. Its a real fruity taste with a nice punch too. my wife finds it just spiffing too!!

2 pineapple
2 mango
1 bulb garlic
2 inches of fresh root ginger
3 tablespoons of horseradish
15 scotch bonnets
1 tablespoon of yellow mustard powder
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
5 tablespoons of distilled vinegar
1 tablespoon salt

poor into hot sterilsed bottles/jars. i have kept this unopened in a cupboard for 6 months and its been fine. refrigerate once opened though..
These are rough guides as two of my sauces are never really the same. You could also add more chillies if you like.

Hope this helps

Daz
 
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welcome backyardpeppergrower!

There are some good threads in this section of the forum on all aspects of sauces.

Here's one for Scotch Bonnet sauce-
http://www.thehotpepper.com/topic/13671-scotch-bonnet-sauce/


http://www.thehotpepper.com/topic/14314-basic-sauce-how-to/
http://www.pepperfool.com/recipes/hotsauce_idx.html

http://www.thehotpepper.com/topic/16901-my-first-sauce-help-me-avoid-disaster/

and a good one for bottling-
http://www.thehotpepper.com/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=forums&area=watch&watch=topic&do=list&tid=3958



May I ask why you want to ferment it for a month? for flavor or for food preservation reasons?
 
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Thanks for the links!

I'd like to ferment for flavor and preservation, but none of the scotch bonnet recipes that I've found called for fermenting, while the do call for high heat cooking, especially when mixed with fruits and other vegetables. I plan on making a fermented chili sauce with chilies from the farmers market, but first I want to make a sauce using the scotch bonnets that I grew. I'm fine with not attempting to ferment the scotch bonnet sauce; I just want to know if it's done at all. I've found that directions for making Caribbean style sauces are not as plentiful as for making Louisiana style.

P.S. I'm also looking for a good set of general directions for home hot sauce bottling, so any tips would be appreciated!
 
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hey backyard-PG-

I see where you have been looking for a fermentation recipe for Scotch Bonnets......


and the good news is, you have probably already found it! All hot chile recipes are pretty much inter-changeable as far as what chile is used and how hot the sauce is. You can use a recipe calling for serranos and substitute habaneros and the recipe will perform pretty much the same with the differences being heat, and some flavor differences.




Feel free to substitute any chile...hotter or milder...for any chile listed in any recipe with the exception of BELL PEPPERS.

And I think one of the links posted previously is a pretty good "how to" for bottling and/or canning sauces.


Also, check "today's active content" as there is a thread on fermentation going on ....
 
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well that's WEIRD! I just clicked on the link and got the same message.


will be back, maybe mods or The Boss can explain?!?!???
 
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just trying something, will see if it works

http://www.thehotpepper.com/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=forums&area=watch&watch=topic&do=list&tid=3958





OK- nope, didn't work......


Boss?!?!???? HELP?!?!???
 
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