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sriracha style hot sauce

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I bought some red Fresno peppers the other day and decided to make a sriracha style sauce. It came out awesome and very close to the hong foods "rooster" sauce.

1pound fresno peppers (I used just over a pound)
4 cloves of garlic (you can add another clove to give it a stronger garlic flavor, next time i will use 5)
1/2 cup of water
1/4 cup of distilled white vinegar (use 1/4 as a starting point and add more according to your taste preference, I added more to mine)
2-3 tbl spoons of salt
2-3 tbl spoons of sugar

slice peppers into sections leaving seeds. add all ingredients into a saucepan, bring to a boil and reduce heat to low/medium and simmer for about 5 minutes add everything to a blender and puree until you get the consistency you want. this is when to add more vinegar,salt or sugar to adjust the flavor to your taste buds. keep in mind that once it cools in the fridge is when it all the flavor comes together.

Hope you guys like this one!

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heres a pic... no i don't eat tostitos salsa! lol
 
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I am going to note that i started with 1 1/2 tablepoons of salt and 2 of sugar. I had to add more vinegar sugar and salt to balance the flavor out, but you might not, so I would use 1 1/2 as a starting point.
 
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Yes it does, but looks good. I LOVE Sriracha. I don't know why I haven't ever made my own. I think I will try this sometime. Maybe adding some real Thai peppers too.
 
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for the guys saying it sounds salty.... I started with 1 1/2 tablespoons of salt and only added more to balance it out..... I doubt there is really 3 tablespoons in there. i guess i need to get better at writing things down! lol
 
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A tablespoon is pretty large and may be larger than you think. Are you using measuring spoons? 3 tablespoons in that half jar of sauce is nuts.
 
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Omri said:
Yeah, tablespoon of salt is a lot. perhaps a teaspoon?
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hmm i actually used a tablespoon, but it doesn't taste salty to me. i supposed next time around i'll start with less salt and more garlic since you guys seem to think it was too much. I dig the sauce as is but things can always be improved.
 
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I saw a bottle of Sriracha in my fridge today, must be something my housemate bought. It does have a sort of sweet fruitiness to it. I'll have to figure out where she got it, because all of the stores around here have a piss poor selection that I've found.
 
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