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Up in Smoke! Smokey Honey Ghost Sauce

I made another batch of sauce on the weekend.  
 
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 Ingredient list is long but came together really well:
 
4 fresh red bhuts
12 fresh thick red cayenne peppers
4 fresh red habaneros
5 fresh birds eye
2 tablespoons dried habanero powder
1 tablespoon Joyner's smoked banshee (chocolate, red and yellow bhut smoked in cherry wood from memory)
1 tablespoon Joyner's yellow 7 pot
2 tablespoons smokey paprika
1.5 litres homemade passata
2 carrots
4 cloves garlic
2 teaspoons coriander powder
1 heaped teaspoon clove powder
300 grams canned passionfruit pulp
400 grams mango 
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons Himalayan crushed rock salt
6 limes juiced
1 cup apple cider vinegar
 
Taste is awesome, but wished I had left it to cook down a little more before pushing through the sieve.  It ended up just a little thinner than I wanted, but didn't want to boil the flavour out of it.  This is awesome, the ghost gives a nice smack in the face, closely followed by a mellow honey smokey sweet cuddle.  Goes with, well everything I have eaten in the last 24 hours, pastie, roast pork, vegetable frittata (ok I didn't try it on cereal but I eat a honey oat so I reckon it would blend ok!).  Next version I will double the red habaneros so there is residual heat for a bit longer.  Slowly dialling this style of hot sauce in…..  
 
JayT said:
Sooo many powders.  Sounds really good, my only question is...
 
How is the texture?  I have had some sauces made from powders that ended up gritty.  Then again, I have some that were great.
Not at all gritty, I was a little worried about that too. I blended all the ingredients bar the passata up and let them sit for a couple of hours before finishing, so I wonder if it helped rehydrate them a bit. Silky smooth. I think the higher sugar content helped here too.
 
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