Louisiana Style Hot Sauce - How to Make Your Own

Learn how to make this super popular style of hot sauce that contains three simple main ingredients: chili peppers, vinegar, and salt. Louisiana-style hot sauce is the best! Tabasco and Crystal are popular Louisiana style sauces you've probably heard of. This recipe works with any type of pepper, and you can very easily customize it to make your own signature blend. I want to show you how to use this style to make a brand-new hot sauce that's all your own.

Hot sauces like this typically last 6 months if left out, 12 months in the fridge.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 What is Louisiana Style
0:43 What’s in Louisiana style Hot Sauce
1:06 About the Peppers
2:00 Cut the Peppers
2:34 Cooking the Hot Sauce
3:30 Variations
3:57 Pro Tip – Fumes
4:11 Process
5:06 Strain
6:25 Taste
6:43 Bottle the Hot Sauce

THINGS YOU’LL NEED:
1 pound red chili peppers use cayenne, tabasco, red jalapeno, or others
1/2-1 teaspoon salt or to your personal taste
½-1 cup white wine vinegar to your preference

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-Mike

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[ChiliPepperMadness]

What's your favorite STYLE of Hot Sauce?

[richspencer]

Cutting Habaneros without gloves - living on the edge!

[thegrimjeeper]

I keep makinging this different peppers. I have made it with red peppers, Green peppers, today I just made it with prickly pear Jalapeño, Serrano, Tabasco and cilantro from my garden.... Amazing go to.

[johncarden]

I have made this according to your directions several times and I must say, there is nothing quite like this fresh chili sauce. I use my home grown peppers so I have to wait until fall to harvest and make the sauce. I like how simple your recipe is- you really taste the peppers. Thank you for sharing your hot sauce skills!

[DLRyoung]

Been making mine for over 20 years, I make mine with jalapeños, I don’t suggest adding water, add more vinegar if anything. I can mine in a hot water bath proceed at 15 minutes, stays good for years. Blessings

[stephenmorton]

I make mine with golden habaneros and it comes out a bright yellow. I save the brine from jars of pepperoncinis and use it in lieu of vinegar. I go through a lot of pepperoncinis. I also add a little bit of Karo syrup. I find that making hot sauce is extremely rewarding. At the oyster House in Pittsburgh they used to have hot vinegar which was just slices of hot peppers and white vinegar with a strainer in the lid. It was great on fish sandwiches.

[josephb]

Great simple sauce that looks delicious. Thanks for the clear instructions.

[DocBrewskie]

Made this sauce a few times. The last time I smoked a handful of chocolate habaneros and threw those in. Woooo!!! Highly recommend trying that out.

[looneygardener]

Got my fermented sriracha recipe from you and it's a family favourite!!! Thanks! Had to double my pepper garden this year.

[rman]

Discover your website recently very happy you have videos! I've been growing super hots for the last 2 years, mostly fermented him last year but your recipes have got me looking at other means of making sauces. Thanks Mike!

[Countdracula]

Clear, concise, easy. Thanks for sharing!

[UgadArgentis]

Cool! I just did this to my garden fresh peppers the same way. Glad to know I did it the same. I stewed mine after blending with water and salt. I then reheated it adding vinegars and lemon juice. I saved my pulp but didn’t think of dehydrating it to make pepper seasoning! Thanks for the tip.

[sinplicityx]

Finally someone with the love of 🌶️🌶️🌶️ that has easy recipes

[lizhood]

I have just made this using a lot of star shaped, quite hot chillis (I was given the plant and it is very prolific) and a red bell pepper. It came out very well, I'm so pleased! Only thing - next time I'll use a mouli rather than a sieve. Thank you for such a good recipe.

[danw]

I have been a fan of your website and somehow missed your videos… very happy to find this. Great work! Thanks for the inspiration!!!

[forrestry]

My favourite recipes. 3 ingredients and simple. Nice 😊

[tinmanandoliveoylsadventur]

I make a variety of hot sauce. Started as a kid in Mexico with the typical salsa. When I was in the Navy, we stopped at Pattaya Beach Thailand which was about 50 or so miles south of SriRacha. Well, get what you did, add about 10 garlic and some sugar. You have SriRacha, the original. I love that Louisiana has it's own. Thank you for sharing.

[clovenbeast]

I put a lot of red habs along with some reapers and chocolate bootlaw and the flavor of just a simple cayenne long thin pepper is amazing on its own so I couldn't leave it out. I would encourage everybody to make their own hot sauce it's just amazing

[EndlessWeekendlife]

That's the simplest style I've come across so far, love it!

[timothyjones]

Well done.... I really appreciated the tip to dehydrate the pump for seasoning.. Rally great!