We are obsessed with hot sauce in our house (and if you haven’t seen Hot Ones on Youtube, you don’t know what you’re missing). This is a super simple one to make, just remember to ‘burp’ it daily, to avoid a spicy explosion on your kitchen bench!
This is a super simple hot sauce recipe using pineapple and Habanero chilis. Habaneros are ideal because of their fruity heat, but you can also use birds’ eye chilis if you can’t find them. The basic idea is that the sugar in the pineapple and chilli ferments, helping to develop the flavour of the sauce. Store your newly made sauce at room temperature for a few days to ferment, opening the lid daily to release any built up gas (otherwise the jar will explode!). Taste your sauce daily as the flavours will continue to develop, and once you’ve reached a flavour profile you love, transfer your hotsauce to the fridge, top stop the fermentation process. Keep it refrigerated from that point onwards.
Ingredients
1 pineapple, skin removed*, chopped
A good handful of Habanero chillies, tops removed, coarsely chopped, seeds in
1 cup white vinegar
1 lime, juiced
A good pinch or two of salt flakes
Method
Sterilise a glass jar and set aside (this is a crucial step, so please take the time to do it properly).
In a blender or Nutribullet, blitz the pineapple and chilli. In a clean mixing bowl, combine the blitzed pineapple and chilli with the remaining ingredients. You can also do it in batches if you can’t fit it all in, then mix everything well to combine.
If you want a refined sauce, pass the sauce through a sieve, lined with muslin cloth (I prefer to keep it chunky).
Pour into the jar and seal.
Open the jar once a day to release the gas created through the fermentation process.
Taste the sauce daily. Once the sauce tastes the way you like it, transfer the jar to the fridge to stop the sauce fermenting further.
*As always, please dispose of your food waste responsibly. Composting is a cheap and easy way to do it at home so that you can contribute less to landfill and nourish your plants while you do the right thing
