Jalapeño Hot Sauce Recipe (Quick & Delicious) - Pepper Geek

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In today's video, we're making a delicious jalapeño hot sauce from scratch. Homegrown jalapeños make a great starting point for a medium-heat hot sauce. This hot sauce recipe makes a perfect base for experimenting with your favorite flavors, so feel free to expand on it and share your results!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:48 Ingredients list
2:15 How to make jalapeño hot sauce
6:24 Taste test
7:09 Bottling

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[daveweston]

My man, I just made 1 gallon with your recipe.. all of my jalapenos had turn red so it ended up being a beautiful color of hot sauce... Instead of adding sugar I added a small amount of local honey... It turned out amazing.. thank you so much..

[Metoobie]

I never tried boiling my peppers first... interesting! I do like grilling them slowly with some smoldering wood chips; amazing smoky flavour! I've been making hot sauces for years (especially with scotch bonnets) and a nice trick I was taught by my Trini family is to use a piece of parchment/wax paper to help isolate the sauce from your jar lids, plastic, rubber gaskets etc; all stuff that a strong sauce will have no problem eating through, destroying your container and its contents. Cheers, happy sauce making everyone!

[rustybearden]

Love peppers and love your channel and all that you do - a safety tip for you - whenever pureeing hot liquids and foods in a blender - ALWAYS cover the lid of the blender with a sturdy towel or cloth folded into a couple of layers held firmly with your hand BEFORE YOU turn on the blender - rapid heating and expansion of the air inside of the machine can cause the lid to burst off rather violently splattering dangerously hot liquid in all directions. Gently pulse the blender at first with quick on and off actions until the liquid normalizes and becomes stable and the air trapped in the blender can adjust to the temperature and pressure increase. Then puree to the desired consistency. A rain of molten hot liquids spraying in all directions is no joke. I learned this the hard way from working in professional kitchens for years.

[pubtravels]

Nice looking recipe. I like your tip about not heating up the vinegar. I've watched several of your videos finally had to subscribe. Looking forward to watching more. Great stuff!

[igloo]

The only issue that I had with this recipe is that it was way on the watery side. So what I did was after blending I put it back into a sauce pan on medium heat to allow some of the liquid to reduce. After I did that the sauce thickened and was 👍

[pbjpsgc]

Awesome! Add a bunch of roasted tomatillos and you've got yourself a salsa verde. Yum yum!

[lisatremontota]

A neighbor gifted me a small abundance of jalapeños. I wasn't sure what to do with them which led me to you and this video. I made the sauce right alongside you. Delicious! Con gracias!

[ferris_outdoors]

I just made this hot sauce about 2 weeks ago from Jalapenos in our garden. Tonight I used the hot sauce with a little bit of oil to cook a bunch of boneless skinless chicken thighs with a little bit of oil and Cajun seasoning ... and boy I tell you what!!🤤🤤🤤 Game changer! Thankyou!!!

[AmitGutmanovitz]

I just made this sauce and also added bell pepper and cherry tomatoes and it turned out great, thank you very much

[bryanrodriguez]

Didn’t have cilantro so i searched up substitutes and lime was a top one. Cooked the limes a bit, took the citrus off and blended it with the other ingredients. Strained after blend. Amazing taste gonna use with my eggs and pretty much anything i can

[ihatecops]

Hello from Wisconsin, i just found this video last night, i bought all the ingredients this afternoon, i just got done making it, i can't wait to try it in a few days after some refrigerator time, i'm making a bunch of mexican street tacos for our labor day party, i'm sure this sauce will be a hit, thanks for sharing

[xIsaacCantu]

Thank you so much for this recipe! I used it as a base recipe and substituted jalapeno for my buena mulata that I grew over the winter, indoors. I also added 5 serrano peppers. It came out amazing, I cant get enough, and I'm very excited to play with this "base recipe". Those are the most important ones to learn in my opinion!

[cooluniquefinds]

This sauce is fantastic! Made it for the family during beach week, and seems like it was being put on everything - Chicken and pork at Dinner, Eggs for breakfast, and even on sandwiches, it was the hit of the week! Made a small batch and a few days later made a batch that filled a wine bottle. We didn't have onions, had shallots and felt it made it a bit smoother, as I think onions have a bit of bite sometimes, but all good. Great instruction, love the channel, thanks for all you do!

[bennettdarren]

I made this 3 days ago and it came out to 8 half pint jars.... I've already finished two of the jars. This is so crazy good... I've used it for a dip for chips, pork, steak, and amazing on breakfast burritos.

[disciplemike]

I am going to make this today. I have an abundance of peppers we grew, and still harvesting.

[DonPandemoniac]

Good stuff! I've made something similar by oven roasting jalapeños, poblanos, onion & garlic, along with a couple of halved limes added later on. Over charcoal would also be a great option.

[thomascrowe]

I just made my second batch of this stuff. So good and thank you. Also added leeks, and three different kinds of vinegar, . Balsamic, apple, and white.

[innly]

Love this. I make something similar using Jalapenos and Tomatillos. Blistered on the BBQ and fermented.

[juancruzgalceran]

I did it but with red jalapeños and it tastes just amazing! I really recommend it, nice way to have something durable on the fridge.

[christopherhawthorne]

I tried this - it came out really good. I got rid of the seeds cause I wanted a really edible sauce more like a dressing. That worked out pretty good