How to Make Hot Sauce from Chili Powder - Chili Pepper Madness

Learn how to make hot sauce from chili powder and a few other simple ingredients with this easy method. You'll never go without hot sauce again!

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Custom Hot Sauce Made Easy
0:58 Ingredients
1:27 Making the Sauce
3:45 Finishing & Bottling
4:52 Variations

THINGS YOU’LL NEED:
4 tablespoons chili powder of choice (yes, you can use a mixture!)
1 tablespoon garlic powder, optional
1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
1/2 cup vinegar
1/2 cup water
Optional Additions: 1 teaspoon or more of onion powder cumin, dried basil, dried oregano, etc.

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-Mike

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[ChiliPepperMadness]

Which pepper powders will you create a sauce with?

[Bola-zuie]

Great tip. I had a bag of chilli powder in the cupboard. Been there a while. Ran out of chilli sauce and so I checked out your site. Your recipe worked a dream, added some fresh lime juice to give it a tang and it’s better than shop bought and much cheaper too. Thanks

[surferscollective]

I have made this sauce several times and it is excellent. Couple of things to note. If you want it thicker but mild, then buff it out with the onion powder etc, or you can use a small amount of gelatin dissolved.

[strings]

I have been having a lot of fun with this one. I have friends that want to try my recipes of hot sauce. The first time I made it, I followed the basic recipe in your video with quantities doubled for friends that want this. Instead of salt, I used Lemon Juice. Today when I made it, I did the same recipe, plus I added 1/4 tsp of Cilantro, 1/4 tsp of Cumin, 1/2 tsp of Paprika, and for an extra kick, I added an 8 oz can of V8 to the blender. I have an old school Oster Blender that works great. The newer stuff has a kick that will put the store bought sauces to shame. 🙂😊👍❣

[hughsweer]

This is what I was looking for. I bought a large red hot powder and was looking how make sauce from it. Thank you

[Jowdee]

Just what I was looking for! I’ll be having a rake through my spices to see what I can come up with. Sometimes I just want hot sauce without the effort and waiting for fermentation etc so this is bang on 😃 Thanks for the tutorial

[maccasnz]

Its mid winter here and no fresh chillis so im using this recipe to get through till harvest. thanks man.

[PyramidOfBubbles]

Great video, Mike! I also added some dried habanero peppers and a carolina reaper into this mix in my food processor. Turned out super spicy, with lots of flavor.

[zinnarinnad]

Love the video. Also you’re a super cool and fun guy!

[marekzr]

Perfect recipe. I give 10/10. Thanks a lot.

[unionthug]

Ive been trying for such a long time to make legitimate hot sauce that I could share with friends and family. I put a few different dry spices in mine to tweek the flavors. After about 4 trys, I have a seriouly great tasting hot sauce with a nice kick. Thanks for this video. 100%

[zossvega]

Thanks again! Had to watch this again before I made a batch.

[kingorbit]

looks awesome. I am trying this today for some cauliflower 'hot wings'. I don't want all the salt that store brands contain so I hope this process works. I think I am going to add some dates to the blender as well.

[donnagarcia]

That's beautiful saucy hot sauce .. easy to make and can be good for me to put few drops to my stir fry veggies for a little bit of touch of hot taste .. this is another version of yours to make one .. cheers ..

[TrInc-shkn]

Thank you from the future, 2023...Hot sauce is super expensive, if you can even find it, but hot pepper powders are still relatively inexpensive (don't tell anyone or they'll raise the price on This is Anything we can do to not be victims of greedflation all the better!

[yayasssamminna]

Amazing recipe! I am cooking for a party of 5 tonight and we will definitely need hot sauce. Ran out of chiratcha, and was about to buy some... then i saw that it is possible to make hot sauce from chili powder? Get outta here! Let's make this bad boy!

[MrMike]

Yesss great informative video!! thank u this just added a new arsenal for my hotsauce cabinet 👍

[pubtravels]

Hey Mike, love your videos. I love Chile Arbol. I'm definitely going to try it using this technique. I have a question for you. Do you find the dried chili powders separate? Is just a shake all that's necessary or do you think adding some xanthan gum might help? Hitting Subscribe!!!

[necrogenesis]

I noticed you didn’t cook it at all in the first version, so if I have any dried chilies I can just grind them into powder and skip the rehydration step? Is there any benefit to doing it the long way compared to this?

[TheSoulArchitech]

Also, can you use apple cider vinegar? Or will that affect the taste to much?