June 2, 2008
Lars's Scorching Hot Sauce
A Little Personal History:
What can I say, I love hot sauce with heat that build to a crescendo few can handle. This variation took years to perfect. By accident, during one of my attempts, I needed it to be a little thinner, happened to be doing some Tequila shots with friends at the time, poured in some Tequila as a thinning agent and … Eureka! I'm no chemist, I'll just guess the booze gets the heat into your blood stream in a very special way!
If you can't handle the end result, go out and buy some plain yogurt to cool down.
Description:
| Categories: | Sauce |
| Servings: | 4 cups |
| Time: | – Preparation: 30 minutes |
| Equipment: | Cutting board and knifes, disposable gloves, measuring cups & spoons, small bowl, food processor or blender |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
Ingredients:
- 1 medium onion; chopped
- 1 medium tomato; blanched & chopped
- 1 lime, juiced
- 2 large garlic cloves; minced
- ¼ tsp ground oregano
- ¼ tsp ground cumin
- ¼ tsp ground turmeric
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- 1 Tbs Olive oil
- 2 Tbs Lars's Champagne Mustard Sauce
- 2 cups white wine vinegar
- 1 cup Gold Tequila
- 10 Habanero peppers (green, orange, and/or red) chopped and de-stemmed, keep seeds
- 5 Serrano peppers, chopped and de-stemmed, keep seeds
- 2 Tbs molasses
Procedure:
- On cutting board, chop & de-stem peppers, add to small bowl.
- Add molasses to bowl and set aside.
- Measure and prepare remaining ingredients and add to food processor.
- Pulse processor until all ingredients are smooth.
- Fold hot peppers & molasses into processor and pulse until fully blended
- Taste test. If necessary, add more salt and molasses to taste.
Advanced Preparation:
Tips, Notes, and Variations:
- Use disposable gloves when handling/chopping hot peppers. If not available, make sure you wash your hands after very well!
- Your resulting sauce should be fairly thick, but if there are chunks bigger than grains of salt, keep blending until not.
- The 15 hot peppers are a baseline (pretty darn hot). Increase or decrease, by same ratio, to satisfy your particular taste buds. Experiment and have fun!
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